4 Accreditation Documents: Columbia Commonwealth/Malawi

Funny how a supposedly Malawian university pushing DL lists a bunch of organizational memberships in (meaningless) US organizations, but no involvement in any African DL consortia and no membership in any Commonwealth orgs either?

 

Now watch them go join some such organizations just to try to buy some credibility.

The whole "We're not CPU, we're CCU... it's totally different" thing is a joke. The ties are very clear... heck if CCU was truly an entirely different enterprise, it wouldn't have all of those CPU grads trying in vain to defend the Malawiian accreditation. And let's not forget the move across state lines, the fact that the CCU office was "bursting at the seams" yet had only one person in it when it was visited, and all of the other stuff...

No, it sounds like someone has gotten an advance copy of Sheila Danzig's forthcoming "How to (not) Make a Million Dollars Starting a University" kit.

 

Chip: Darn right it's a joke. Actually, it's part of a joke from a stand-up routine at a cardiologists' convention.

 

MUTUAL RECOGNITION OF QUALIFICATIONS:
THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
AND
THE OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES
Second Edition
compiled by
Dr. Oleg KOUPTSOV
Bucharest, 2000
UNESCO Office in Bucharest (CEPES)
FOREWORD

Part One. GUIDELINES FOR THE RECOGNITION OF QUALIFICATIONS FROM THE OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION AND OF RUSSIAN QUALIFICATIONS IN THE OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES


7. QUALITY CONTROL
As a result of the changes that occurred in the Russian Federation after 1990, and in order to ensure quality and efficiency, a new national mechanism for quality control and assessment was introduced. This mechanism includes:
the state educational standard;

licensing;

State accreditation;

State final attestation.

7.1. The State Educational Standard

7.2. Licensing
Licensing is a procedure whereby an educational institution is granted the right to carry out educational programmes in relevant fields of study (specialities) and at corresponding levels of education. It consists of the recognition of expertise, the taking of decisions, and the issuing of a duly worded authorization, i.e., a license.
Even though licensing grants the right to engage in educational activities,
it does not confer the right to award educational certificates of the state format certifying graduation from an educational institution. In order to earn this right, an educational institution must be accorded state accreditation.

7.3. State Accreditation

State accreditation is the formal recognition of the status of an educational establishment by the State on the basis of solid evidence that its activities conform to nationally established requirements. The procedure results in the granting to the educational institution concerned the right to award nationally recognized certificates of the state format certifying the successful completion of an educational programme, to use a State seal of the Russian Federation, and to be included in the financing scheme of the State.

State accreditation is applicable both to state educational establishments and to private institutions. For higher education institutions, State accreditation is regulated by a decree of the State Committee for Higher Education.