Action Against College After Student Complaints

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Education Authorities Consider Action Against College After Flood of Student Complaints (Maverick Citizen [South Africa], April 20, 2021) "Public and private tertiary education institutions are accredited by numerous authoritative and regulatory bodies in South Africa. Now, two of the foremost authorities are moving towards withdrawing accreditation on some of the programmes offered by two colleges."

Quality Assurance in Indian Higher Education (Greater Kashmir, April 19, 2021) "Achieving excellence in teaching and research is the goal of every higher education institution (HEI), the world over. To achieve excellence, HEIs would need to have a greater focus on the quality of its teaching and research pursuits. Therefore, the sole objective of the HEIs and their regulators is to continuously make efforts to improve the quality of higher education."

UNESCO, WAC Sign Agreement to Boost Quality Assurance of Higher Education Systems (Vanguard [Nigeria], April 11, 2021) "The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the World Accreditation Commission, WAC, yesterday, signed a partnership action plan. In a joint statement, the two bodies highlighted their strengthened cooperation and a strong shared emphasis on boosting quality assurance of higher education systems."

Why Student Participation in Quality Assurance Matters (University World News, April 10, 2021) "One of the key indicators in the European Higher Education Area’s Bologna Process implementation reports is to ensure student participation in higher education processes. Student participation is monitored in terms of their participation in the governance of national quality assurance organisations, in their role in institutional evaluation teams (as a team member or observer), in the preparation of internal evaluation reports and in decision-making processes regarding external evaluation and monitoring processes."