Dive Brief:
- In response to a rise in student and faculty mobility among international educational institutions, the Council for Higher Education Accreditation has released a list of seven international quality principles.
- The list highlights the responsibility of higher education providers to offer educational quality for students, society, and government.
- It also encourages cooperation between institutions and accreditation agencies for accountability and improvement, calling on higher education institutions to be flexible and responsive to the needs of students.
Dive Insight:
Beyond the international quality guidelines, CHEA is piloting a Quality Platform in China as a way to review nontraditional programs. CHEA has expressed concern with the increasing number of students seeking nontraditional programs that are not accredited or even, in many cases, evaluated. The Quality Platform provides a process through which to evaluate these programs, offering more information for students, governments, and the institutions themselves. CHEA presented the platform last August, still encouraging reflection about what institutions might be best-equipped to do the evaluation work, existing accreditors or new organizations focused exclusively on the nontraditional sector.