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11-23-2009, 06:32 PM
<a class='bbc_url' href='http://www.globecampus.ca/blogs/colemans-campus/2009/11/20/idea-qatar-global-accreditation/'>Article LInk</a>

Quote:One of many higher education challenges facing developing nations is they have limited or no means to ensure degrees granted in their countries will be accepted outside their borders. This is a major problem in the era of globalization when people need to have the credentials to work anywhere in the world.

A global accreditation body would create a method for developing nations to communicate the value of their degrees and provide these nations a method to measure the quality of their university programs.

It is a good idea.

To put this in a Canadian context, we often say that we have the most educated taxi drivers in the world. We have people holding PhDs from the developing world who cannot get jobs in their fields because their education is not recognized in Canada.
that would make hell of a lot more sense...we bloody recruit people with degrees in necessary fields, then force them to go through retraining (in canada)

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11-23-2009, 07:08 PM
That'll be quite an effort, as the quality of the degrees can not only change from country to country, but also from university to university...and in the end, a degree is only a very rough measure of someones skills and abilities. But a world platform would indeed streamline international exchange of highly educated people. As far as I know, it is currently regulated mostly by bilateral treaties.
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11-24-2009, 03:52 AM
Quote:That'll be quite an effort, as the quality of the degrees can not only change from country to country, but also from university to university...and in the end, a degree is only a very rough measure of someones skills and abilities. But a world platform would indeed streamline international exchange of highly educated people. As far as I know, it is currently regulated mostly by bilateral treaties.
I would have to do a little checking, but I do know that many U.S. high schools run an International Baccalaureate programs. I'd have to see what the standards are for this.
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