Online School Confusion in South Africa

July 6, 2023

HEADLINES

Bahrain’s First of its Kind On-Campus Coding Institute Reboot01 Partners with AUBH (Zawya.com, July 5, 2023) The American University of Bahrain, renowned as the first U.S. accredited university in the Kingdom and one of the few in the GCC, will officially recognize Reboot 01’s diploma.

Online school confusion in South Africa (BusinessTech, June 26, 2023) Online schools in South Africa are moving to assure parents that qualifications from legitimate institutions are valid and quality – despite digital learning not yet being regulated by the government. The reason for this confusion is because there is no legal framework for online schools to be recognized in accreditation terms.

Education Research Should be Central to the Academy. Why isn’t it? (Times Higher Education, June 12, 2023) A recent British Educational Research Association survey gives an up-to-date picture of education research and education researchers working in higher education. The role of higher education in training teachers is now highly variable across the UK, with England seeing increasing numbers of schools-based training and development options that connect to higher education only for accreditation and via their ostensibly research-based curricula.

25% Rise in NAAC Registering for Accreditation After Notice (Times of India, June 10, 2023) Since January, the Maharashtra government has been pushing colleges across the state to apply for assessment and accreditation. After the higher education department issued a notification in May, asking all state universities to de-affiliate colleges that do not register for National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC). This effort has resulted in a 25% increase in the number of colleges that have registered for accreditation.

Adelaide University Merger Faces Rocky Regulatory Road (Times Higher Education, July 4, 2023) The universities of Adelaide and South Australia agrees to join forces as the new “Adelaide University,” but the merger requires the consent of state parliament, regulatory approval from the TEQSA and an amendment of the federal act governing higher education funding. Both these steps are prerequisites for TEQSA accreditation.