Switzerland has a long tradition of private higher education institutions. This is particularly true for hotel management schools and business schools. Many private higher education institutions have obtained the EduQua label from the Swiss Federation for Adult Learning (SVEB) or are part of the Swiss Federation of Private Schools, these are not recognized higher education authorities according to the Rector's Conference of Swiss Universities or State Secretariat for Education, Research, and Innovation, or the Swiss Agency of Accreditation and Quality Assurance.Private institutions that are not accredited by the governmental or statutory bodies may only issue private degrees. Private degrees generally do...

Education in Oman includes several levels of study leading to different credentials. To simplify the process, the Oman Qualifications Framework (OQF) was designed to identify all qualifications in the public and private sectors of education and training. We have provided a very short list of the 10 levels of the Frameworks. This short list, which is not all inclusive, includes professional, academic, technological, and technical/vocational qualifications. Primary education is at level 2, while secondary education is available at levels 3 and 4. Post-secondary education is offered at levels 5 through 10. To aid in transparency, the Credit Accumulation and Transfer (CAT)...

Transcript Research is thrilled to announce our latest e-publication, Researching International Education Systems and Institutions, the 2021/2022 Edition. We've compiled nearly 1200 pages of free resources for the international credentials evaluator. This is a huge update over previous editions. Our previous versions had roughly 1/3 of the content of this update, which includes free links for secondary education; country-wide or exam body online verification or digital records links; post-secondary education information; links for recognition, quality assurance, and/or accreditation; technical and vocational education; qualifications frameworks; industry resources and publications; and unofficial additional resources. http://transcriptresearch.com/Research_2022.pdf

The more things change, the more they stay the same. What does that even mean? In this case, it means that the Ministry of Education of China has once again shifted the priorities of some of its higher education organizations, and the verification services that we use have now made some changes. For over a decade, the China Academic Degrees and Graduate Education Development Center (CDGDC) has administered the verification of Bachelor, Master, and Doctoral degree certificates in China through its http://www.chinadegrees.cn website. At the same time, transcripts and other records were verified by the China Higher Education Student Information...

In September, Transcript Research had the good fortune to co-present with AACRAO to deliver a webinar on Digital Documents and International Admissions which is online if you missed out on in then. Earlier in the month, we had written a little bit about it for the AACRAO Connect, and you check that out here. The excitement around those, and our earlier webinar on an Introduction to Digital Records for the TAICEP At Your Desk series means we have spent the better part of six months thinking intensively about digital documents. So we wrote an epub! You can get the whole...