It was agreed that the Conference advanced understanding on TVET policies and strategies for integrating academic courses with vocational education through equivalency.
To address this challenge, a three-day International Conference on "Integration of Academic Courses with Vocational Education in Secondary Schools" was organized jointly on 17-19 February in New Delhi by UNESCO, the National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) and the Commonwealth of Learning.
Today, many colleges and universities provide academic credit for individual courses, full programs of study and prior learning acquired on ships, during combat and at base locations worldwide.
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Some 2, 000 academic volunteers have designed the courses and given the university some credibility.
A-levels, combining science, language and humanities courses with vocational and academic variations.
For instance, many American universities are providing free open courses online with Coursera, Academic Earth or their own platforms.
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Starting in July, Mr. Kerbel's new company, Practice LLC, will offer courses in five areas: academic preparation, career development, language and cultural orientation, software and library research skills and personal performance.
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The legislature has found and hereby declares that the availability of legitimate courses and programs leading to academic degrees offered by responsible private not-for-profit and for-profit institutions of postsecondary education and the existence of legitimate private colleges and universities are in the best interests of the people of this state.
Pencoed College, near Bridgend, has announced it is discontinuing under-subscribed agricultural courses from the end of this academic year.
Academic Partnerships will do the recruiting for the courses and will receive a share of the tuition the schools get from students who decide to keep going and earn degrees.
Useless courses would naturally disappear and non-academic people would not be made to look stupid but would instead be able to go down a career path they actually enjoy.
But, says Balbir Chatrik of the Unemployment Unit, an independent research body, it would be better if the colleges providing the courses abandoned their fixation with the traditional academic year and offered more flexible starting dates.
In the next academic year, the school will begin overhauling its core courses.
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Its nondegree executive-education courses have about 1, 000 participants this academic year, about one-third the size of its Singapore program and one-fifth the figure in Fontainebleau.
For those enrolled in secondary education, two courses at this level of schooling are completed in each academic year which corresponds to a period of ten months.
Donald Green, who heads the Institution for Social and Policy Studies that housed YIISA, released a statement explaining that YIISA, like all other programs, was evaluated by two set criteria: Its success in publishing articles in top-tier academic journals and its success in attracting a large number of students to its courses.
Best is chairman of Academic Partnerships, a five-year-old company based in Dallas that helps public universities move their courses online.
In terms of academic results, inspectors found underachievement at GCSE level in this sector, with evidence that pupils are on courses for which they have "little realistic chance of success".
Harvard has been a strong proponent of using business cases in its MBA degree courses for years and believes the technique can be used by others to improve the quality of their academic offerings.
During two- or three-week residential courses they are exposed to university-level tuition in an effort to stretch them further and broaden their academic interests.
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The framework document is also expected to review how the quality of university courses is assured - and in his speech Lord Mandelson will call for "ways of incentivising excellence in academic teaching".
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