Bangladesh University Grants Commission and Global Ranking

HEADLINES

University Grants Commission to Take Steps for Global Ranking (The Financial Express [Bangladesh}, September 9, 2020) "The University Grants Commission will take necessary measures to ensure quality higher education at the university level and to secure a strong position in the global ranking.”

Higher Education in the New Education Policy (Kashmir Reader, September 8, 2020) "Research universities, teaching universities and degree-granting colleges will gradually move towards full autonomy – academic, administrative and financial. Affiliation of colleges will be phased out and Graded Autonomy will be given to colleges on the basis of the status of their accreditation."

New Leadership Team to Drive Future Directions for Tertiary Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) Education in Australia (The Sector, August 31, 2020) “Federal Minister for Education Dan Tehan has announced the appointment of a new Chief Executive Officer to Australia’s independent national quality assurance and regulatory agency for higher education, the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA)."

The Impact of COVID-19 Modifications to Teaching, Learning and Assessment in Irish Further Education and Training and Higher Education (Quality and Qualifications Ireland, August 2020) “Providers also described an element of peer review either by colleagues or external authenticators to quality assure the standard of assessment. Some providers received very positive feedback on arrangements for online external authentication and have indicated that sharing of good practice in this area would be useful.”