Accreditation

The Zimbabwe Council for Higher Education announced earlier this year the removal of seven universities in India and Cyprus from its list of verified institutions, for failing to renew their government accreditation.

The Learning Resource Network has announced that it will provide International GCSE, AS/A Level and Pre University Foundation qualifications in Thailand.

Students in China who have been studying international courses online should now travel to overseas study destination countries, authorities announced on January 28.

UK-based awarding organisation LRN has signed an agreement in Pakistan that could see its qualifications reach more than 5,000 candidates in the next year.

The UK ELT sector has celebrated four decades of its renowned inspection scheme Accreditation UK, jointly run by the British Council and English UK.

The UK and India have agreed to officially recognise each other’s higher education qualifications – a move that has been hailed as a "landmark, historic agreement".

A trading block with more than 300 million people in Africa is working on a regional strategy to guide the implementation of Recognition of Prior Learning.

In a landmark development, India and Australia have set up a task force for qualifications recognition between the two countries, which stakeholders hope will "lead to tangible outcomes in the near future".

The Learning Resource Network has partnered with Magna Carta College Extreme Commerce to offer UK qualifications and pathways to UK universities in Pakistan.

Only one in four university admissions staff feel confident spotting fake qualification documents without assistance, a survey by the UK NARIC has revealed.

The governments of Argentina and the UK have signed a deal in Mendoza to ensure mutual recognition of master's degrees studied in the nations' HEIs.

UK-NARIC and Oxford EMI have launched a quality accreditation scheme for institutions offering EMI - English as a medium of instruction.

The Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education has launched an automatic qualification recognition service for Nordic graduates seeking to study in Norway.

World Education Services has issued a new set of 'digital badges' in a move it says will revolutionise the way qualifications are recognised globally.

Eaquals, a membership body for ELT and language schools around the world celebrated a year of successes and growth at its annual conference in Prague.