Image source: Workman House via pexels.com In 2019, Uganda began implementing the National Teacher Policy, which requires all teachers to hold a Bachelor degree as a minimum qualification. Prior to that, teacher education in Uganda was offered through a variety of certificate and degree levels administered by different authorities. Under the older system, teacher training was offered at Early Childhood Development/ECD Teacher Training Institutions, Primary Teacher Colleges, National Teacher Colleges, Health Tutor Colleges, and Universities. Teacher education in Uganda was overseen jointly by the Teacher Instructor Education and Training Department/TIET of the Ministry of Education and Science and Kyambogo University....

Image source: ThisIsEngineering via pexels.com Because of the breadth and complexity of post-compulsory education in the Republic of Ireland, the National Framework of Qualifications (NFQ) was established in 2003 by the National Qualifications Authority of Ireland. The Framework sets out the level at which a qualification can be recognized in the Republic of Ireland and includes academic and vocational qualifications. The NFQ helps students make informed decisions about the qualifications they need, and they help employers and educational providers assess what qualifications an applicant has completed. The NFQ is comprised of ten levels, and set out the basis on which...

Image via Denniz Futalan via pexels.com    Philippines offers a fascinating alternative to traditional education known as the Expanded Tertiary Education Equivalency and Accreditation/ETEEAP. This is an educational assessment strategy under the Commission of Higher Education (CHED) that recognizes knowledge, skills, and prior learning through formal, non-formal, and informal training. This comprehensive educational assessment program recognizes and provides equivalencies for knowledge, experiences, achievements, and skills obtained by academic and non-academic work.   Specific higher education institutions in the Philippines are deputized by CHED to offer some select programs through ETEEAP, which is also locally known as prior or adult learning....

Image source: Anete Lusina via pexels.com This final blog posts will briefly examine a few remaining calendars in use today that don’t follow the Gregorian calendar or use slight modifications. In fact, each of these calendars has a vastly unique starting date, usually based on religious reasons, much like the Gregorian calendar. Iran uses the Persian calendar, also known as the Iranian calendar or Jalaali calendar. This solar calendar is used only in Iran now, but from 2001 to 2022, Afghanistan also used the Persian calendar. However, the Taliban implemented the Hijri lunar calendar, which had also been used during...

  Image credit: Samer Daboul via pexels.com     In our previous blog post, we discussed the Gregorian calendar and countries that use it or variations of the Gregorian calendar for their country’s date system. Next time, we’ll discuss countries that follow their own system and might or might not include Gregorian dates on their official records. Before we do that, however, we’re going to briefly discuss the backgrounds of the calendar systems to explain a bit more about how different calendars can vary so much, not just in start dates as we’ve already seen but in the number of days,...