atw: Re: Accreditation - again

The Departments of Education in this country and abroad have very specific 
meanings for 'accreditation'. It applies to courses and institutions. 
Accreditation as applied to a course, means that the course itself meets 
certain education criteria with respect to level, eg, as in the AQTF in 
Australia.

Accreditation as applied to an institution means that such an institution 
meets the probity requirements for being able to offer to teach or assess 
[or both] for that particular course. An institution can be made up of one 
person who teaches, trains or assesses. But an individual cannot merely 
claim to offer such and such a course and therefore be accredited - there 
is much more to it than that.

Accreditation DOES NOT apply to individuals.

Brian.
  Allan said:

  I just stumbled over a statement made by the Prime Minister on 22
  October.  The key components are
   
  o   the absorption of the National Training Authority into the
  Department of Education and Science
   
  o   the establishment of a ministerial council on vocational education
  "to ensure continued harmonisation of a national system of standards,
  assessment and accreditation ... "
   
  I read this to mean accreditation of educators and trainers - for the
  time being.  
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