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Roles of Regional Centres of Expertise on Education for Sustainable Development: Lessons Learnt in the First Half of the UNDESD
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Fadeeva, Zinaida; Mochizuki, Yoko – Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 2010
As its major contribution to the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (UN DESD, 2005-2014), the United Nations University (UNU) has promoted the establishment of Regional Centres of Expertise on education for sustainable development (RCEs) and their net-working to build innovative multistakeholder platforms for ESD…
Descriptors: Socialization, Sustainable Development, Regional Programs, Expertise
Regional Centres of Expertise on Education for Sustainable Development (RCEs): An Overview
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Mochizuki, Yoko; Fadeeva, Zinaida – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2008
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to offer an overview of the United Nations University's Regional Centres of Expertise on Education for Sustainable Development (RCE) initiative--the global process created to support the implementation of the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD, 2005-2014)--and discuss the…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Higher Education, Sustainable Development, Expertise
Regional Accreditation Evaluative Criteria and Quality Assurance.
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Troutt, William E. – Journal of Higher Education, 1979
A review of the publications of the six regional accrediting associations is reported and shows that evaluative format varies but that there is a commonly assumed relationship between quality and institutional objectives, educational program, financial resources, faculty, and library/learning center. Assumptions underlying these criteria are…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Accrediting Agencies, Decision Making, Educational Quality
A History of the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education: The First Forty Years
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Abbott, Frank C. – Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, 2004
For more than half a century the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE) has served the West well. Organized formally in 1951 as an intentional collaboration between state governments in the West, and launching an embryonic program of activities in 1953, WICHE has continuously and effectively served one mission: to expand access…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Interstate Programs, Regional Programs, Institutional Research
The Southern and Eastern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality (SACMEQ): Mission, Approach and Projects
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Murimba, Saul – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2005
The quality of education is an issue of growing concern in many countries today, and there is increasing reliance on the employment of large-scale, scientific survey research techniques to study the quality issues, the monitoring and evaluation of the quality of education, and the formulation of policy interventions designed to improve quality.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Consortia, Regional Programs
Increasing the Effectiveness of Women's Programs on College Campuses: A Summary of the Activities and Accomplishments of the National Women's Centers Training Project.
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Girard, Kathryn L.; And Others – 1980
Regional training activities of campus-based women's centers, and needs assessment and evaluation studies of the National Women's Centers Training Project are discussed. The women's centers project at Everywoman's Center, University of Massachusetts, was designed to provide staff training in the following areas: power and leadership issues in…
Descriptors: Feminism, Higher Education, Institutional Characteristics, Institutional Cooperation