But should we worry that the credit-for-experience bargain shortchanges students and dilutes educational quality?
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Mr. Greiner: Their focus on educational quality and productivity levels thanks to freer labor markets.
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The problem, of course, is that the public is still using institutional prestige as a proxy for educational quality.
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Teacher status and education are considered fundamental for the improvement of educational quality.
In the broadest sense, it reflects the growing focus on educational quality.
It will look at pupil numbers, finances and educational quality.
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But using prestige as the primary (if not sole) signal of educational quality can have a keenly perverse effect on higher education, particularly to the extent that prestige encourages escalating costs.
Critics of for-profit education generally contend that the private sector is willing to sacrifice educational quality and the interests of the student in order to generate a short-term profit, an argument that Stanfield suggests is largely unsubstantiated by economic theory, empirical evidence or sound reasoning.
For persons holding this perspective, it is often implicitly contended that the objective of the private sector is to maximize profits at all costs, including the detriment of educational quality, and it cannot therefore be trusted to look out for the best interests of students.
Provide technical assistance and advice to, and training of, national teams responsible for curriculum change and development processes, in the context of national curriculum making, implementation, monitoring and evaluation processes through the use of diversified content and promotion of unversally shared values and with an expanded vision of educational quality and innovation.
During their policy conference in May 1992, the ANC made specific commitments to education in South Africa, inter-alia, provision of a minimum of 10years free and compulsory education, provision for those with special learning needs, improving educational quality, ensuring education for young people expelled or having dropped out of school as a consequence of apartheid, provision of adult education, leading to the establishment of a single non-racial, equal and democratic education system.
In other words, more quality educational play-time is preferable to more testing, measuring, and evaluating.
MOOCs make the overall education system and the job market more efficient by marrying quality educational content with the flexibility, scalability and access afforded by the Internet.
Internet ABC furthermore provides high quality educational materials for the classroom and a scalable, cross-cultural model that has been extended to Turkey and is applied to other countries as well.
"High speed connectivity is vital if we are to benefit from the increasing amount of high-quality educational material and multimedia training packages available over the internet, " said Andy Rowland of Ecodyfi.
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The combination of software, broadband networks and powerful, affordable devices is making it possible to put high-quality educational resources into the hands of any teacher or student who has access to basic technology infrastructure and tools.
"We are positioning ourselves as a reasonable alternative with regard to cost to independent schools, which can be substantially more money, and we feel we can provide a quality educational program within the district, " Mr. Stark said.
Only then can we harness the universal desire of teachers and parents to ensure that all children can access the high-quality educational experiences they need to lead productive lives filled with unlimited opportunities for success, discovery and learning.
In Pakistan, through the project "Mobile Learning for Teachers" Nokia's Education Delivery application will help UNESCO to enable the delivery of high-quality educational materials to teachers who lack training and resources though mobile phones giving an opportunity to teachers to train themselves on the same level as professionally competent teachers.
At the heart of almost all of these issues is the problem of scale: of finding ways to make high-quality educational resources--whether it's brilliant teachers, innovative lesson plans or inspiring new teaching methods--reach not just a handful of students in a single classroom but hundreds of millions of students around the globe.
This round table invites to debate and think about the contribution of research to the relation Quality-Educational policies.
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Mobile Education Framework is a cross platform framework and interactive mobile forum for the distribution of quality mobile educational content.
We hope KIPP expansion will spur healthy competition and cause school districts nationwide to raise the quality of educational offerings for young people like Rocio Mendoza.
These workshops aim to train over 120 PTC members to revitalize PTC's role for increasing school enrolment, addressing educational challenges and improving quality of teaching-learning conditions in schools.
Through satellite and network systems, high-quality digital educational resources are made available to remote and underdeveloped regions in China including: training teachers in rural areas and providing information technology services and teaching resources to rural schools.
Horowitz elaborates that profits in the education sector can be expected to promote competition and innovation that lead to an increase in the quality of educational provision, better value for the customer, and a more efficient allocation of resources, a point that CCAP elaborated on it is 2010 study, For-Profit Higher Education: Growth, Innovation and Regulation.
MCC's mission is to provide high quality, accessible and affordable educational opportunities that promote student success, individual development and improve the overall quality of life in a multicultural community.
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This implies educational policies that promote changes in educational systems, aiming for quality for all.
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The challenges of measuring health-care quality, for example, closely parallel the difficulties of assessing the quality of an educational institution.
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Perhaps these reflect that the quality of undergraduate educational focus and intimacy does affect student satisfaction and subsequent alumni financial contributions to alma maters.
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