St Clements University applying for DETC Accreditation

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  1. George Brown

    George Brown Active Member

    From their March Newsletter:

    Ministry of Education License in Niue.

    The Niue St Clements University Campus Learning Centre is now a licensed Government Higher Education School.

    The Niue Cabinet has approved the St Clements University’s application for the Niue St Clements University Campus Learning Centre to be licensed as a Higher Education School. The application was based on St Clements University Campus Learning Centre applying to the USA Distance Education and Training Council for accreditation of its courses. DETC is the accreditation body the USA Federal Department of Education recognises to accredit distance education. It will be two years before the Niue Centre can formally apply for accreditation with DETC, but this time will be spent on selecting the programs for the initial application and tailoring them for DETC requirements.

    Cheers,

    George
     
  2. BillDayson

    BillDayson New Member

    I would like to inform everyone in Australia that I'm the Queen of England.

    They have succeeded in finding the most obscure island on earth to "license" them. (What is Niue? A NZ dependent territory? I hope that they aren't going to try a Greenwich on us.)

    So they are admitting that they lied to those islanders? Have they applied to DETC or haven't they?

    I guess that we have a new accreditation status here. There's 'fully accredited'. There's 'candidacy for accreditation'. Now we apparently have 'intending to apply for accreditation sometime'.

    At one time St. Clements was claiming to be a new Zambian university in an announcement filled with African names. But that webpage is no longer working and the the university apparently has moved on. (Lotsa African academics out of work, I guess.)

    (If this means that Zambia gave them a boot-to-the-butt, good for Zambia.)

    http://forums.degreeinfo.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12671

    And I guess that St. Clements is two-timing Turks and Caicos and St. Vincent and Grenadines (where St.C. has business licenses) by going out with a different island.

    If they spent half the effort improving their academics that they spend scouring the world for obscure islands, they might actually make themselves accreditable. Or then again, maybe not.
     
  3. jugador

    jugador New Member

    Wow. I am humbled. I've always prided myself on a knowledge of world geography, but Niue is a new one on me. A web search says they are losing population at an alarming rate. I can't imagine why. Pictures of it look like a tropical paradise. But then, they are really, REALLY out there in the middle of nowhere.
     
  4. galanga

    galanga New Member

    The wiuld wiuld Niuest

    The "school" should fly a few Wyoming legislators out for a site visit, and then obtain a Wyoming state license.
     
  5. PaulC

    PaulC Member

    Niue:

    ...some 1,480 miles north east of Auckland, New Zealand and 2400miles north east of Sydney Australia. The island stands alone...population 1,700

    I can see the web site now:

    "In an ocean of distance learning choices, St. Clements stands alone..."
     
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  6. BillDayson

    BillDayson New Member

    The Central Intelligence Agency never sleeps:

    http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ne.html

    The CIA informs us that Niue's former name was Savage Island.
     

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