Comes now West Coast University (Panama)

Neil Hayes, on another forum, asks about them. It is clear from the website that they are either a part of, or identical, the West Coast Institute of Perth, Australia. But the links to that, which a search here found, are no longer working. Any thoughts, George or others?

Thanks. --John

http://www.westcoastuniversity-edu.com/

 

Phone number from Minnesota ?

According to an area code search the contact number is in
Minesota.

Looks like an interesting site. Do they go south for the winter?

 

we have seen this before...

Their accreditation page includes the Rubber Duck Designs foil shield for the "accreditor" International Education Ministry Accreditation Association (IEMAA)-USA. IEMAA is in the Saint Regis group: the IEMAA site includes a section on the pigeonoid Branford Academy, kind of a dead giveaway. IEMAA accreditation is considerably cheaper ($500) than NBOE accreditation ($10,000 at one point in time, then $50,000 a few months later).

So West Coast University plays with the Saint Regis group, at least a little.

The domain is registered this way:

Domain: westcoastuniversity-edu.com
Registrant: Sarfraz Lloyd
West Coast University
[email protected]
165 main StreetOsborne Park
Perth WA 6018, Western Australia 6017 AU
+1.0893441755

The mission statements for WCU and West Coast Institute of Management & Technology are the same; no surprise there.

WCU course descriptions "are available for the students enrolled with WCU/WCIMT." Now, that's certainly going to convince prospective students who are curious about the place to enroll.

Smells duck-like.

G

 

Galanga a true master of neology

Pigeonoid? PIGEONOID?

I am awed, stunned, admiring.

But, lieber Meister, which end of the duck are you sniffing?

 

yeah, well...

...it had a more annoying ring than "pigeonesque" so I went for it. Now back to home repairs!

We are brought to things akin to Russell's paradox: can the nose smell itself? Can the tongue taste itself? We know that we can taste (if we were so unfortunate as children) beef tongue, so it is the self-referential that hangs us. Do nostrils a nose make? "Beak" is slang for "nose" but a beak's a beak, and not a nose, so it must have been the other end. Or maybe not.

G

 

wait a mine-nute

I understand that Australia is really rigid on its education standards, right? So if this a real university or what?

 

George Brown tells me that this, and the following, are apparently all run from the Perth home of their owner. This may give Galanga something to do on the weekend. Incidentally, 501 is both an area code for Minnesota and the country code for Panama, when you dial, from the US, 011-501

http://www.wcimt.com.au/contact.htm
http://www.wcimt.us/global_partnerships.htm
http://www.wcimt.us
http://www.westcoastinstitute.com.au/international.htm
http://www.westcoastinstitute.com.au/contact.htm
http://www.wccmt.co.uk/programs_graduate.htm
http://www.wccmt.co.uk/about_overview.htm
http://www.uncedu.us
http://www.uofh.us
http://www.uofh.net
http://uhedu.net

 

too many (or is it too few) electrons

Galanga is troubleshooting electrical wiring this weekend. That's why I'm posting so much!

G

 

West Coast University (WCU) is a Panamanian International Business Corporation, NOT an Australian University. Indeed, WCU, makes no claim of being Australian, however the linkages of 'operating' from Australian are there.

A very important report was handed down on Friday - The Guthrie Report.
This report seeks to amend the National Protocols for Higher Education Approval Processes, and amongst other things, define what is actually meant by 'operating'. Guthrie recommends that the hosting of a website in Australia constitutes 'operating' amongst a whole range of other criteria.

Time will only tell.

Cheers,

George

 

o-tay

Dr Bear,


Panama's dialing code is 507.



George:


Thank you for the information!

 

West Coast University ICDE Accreditation

West Coast University is accredited by ICDE.
If I am not wrong, ICDE's accreditation has been introduced for only 2 years. Since WCU claims that they are internationally recognized, I would like to know what ICDE Accreditation really means.

Would anyone explain it to me?

 

Here's what it means (bold emphasis is verbatim from http://tinyurl.com/5j68g):

The purpose of the ICDE Standards Agency is to promote public confidence that the quality of standards and provision of services to students in Open and Distance Learning are being safeguarded. It is important to make clear that this does not involve an audit of academic standards of courses or qualifications, since there exist no agreed international standards for qualifications, curriculum and academic content, although various elements of these can be, and often are, regulated by country or region. It assumes that institutions will be operating within the overall national and/or state legislation and guidelines which are applicable to them at any given time.

I think this is fairly self-explanatory.

Cheers,

George

 

So, just to clarify, this accreditation means absolutely nothing because, near as I can tell, they do absolutely nothing.



Tom Nixon

 

It is very strange Tom, and begs the question - what is the utility of ICDE accreditation/ endorsment? Clearly it is not equivalent to MOE accreditation to confer degrees, and it is does not attest to any quality aspects of course content etc. So, in a nutshell, it must be something to do with benchmarking best practice in course delivery via different modes etc. To me, it just looks a big club, open for one and all to join and share information.

Cheers,

George