Accreditation

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.

Countries in east Africa are considering harmonising standards of postgraduate training, observing that there exists no clear standards of either training or supervision at graduate level

The British Accreditation Council has released an updated version of its accreditation scheme for independent higher education providers.

APAIE has used its recent conference to urge more work be done towards qualification recognition across the Asia Pacific. "We're still nowhere near as cohesive [as Europe]" said Sarah Todd

The British Accreditation Council has launched its new accreditation scheme for English language schools worldwide with a ceremony at the House of Commons in London.

The owner of a New Zealand PTE has criticized NZQA, declaring she felt her organisation was "doomed to close", but the agency says it followed usual procedure.

German Bildungsurlaub Service Provider, which assists language schools with "Bildungsurlaub" accreditation has relaunched its website.

The UK's British Accreditation Council is developing an international English language education accreditation scheme it claims will be “quite unique” in ELT.

A new set of ELICOS benchmarks to ensure international students don’t “slip through the cracks”, received a mixed reception at AIEC.

Marketing English in Ireland has revealed it is nearing completion on a new quality assurance scheme for its member schools across Ireland.

An Auckland private training establishment, Aotearoa Tertiary Institute, has been stripped of its accreditation after breaching several quality standards.