Week 12: Listening skill-Foreign Students Series: Accreditation Explained

Foreign Students Series: Accreditation Explained

 Education is important for finding a job in future. When we have higher ability than other, we can get opportunity for selecting good job available with us or job that we like. On the other hand, we hardly get good job if we don’t study in high level or study in needed major at good and famous college or university. Every countries, region, local and places need population with several abilities, so each countries has efforts to prepare students in school as first. Students often consider American college or university. Especially Education in America, employers and school are more usually acceptable education in American that comes from an accredited program. Accreditation is used for controlling educational quality. In this section, I would like to tell you about educational quality control (accreditation) explained in the United States.

According to the Unites States, there are eight accrediting agency for higher education. First of all, colleges or universities asked for quality control or accreditation. Then, school measures its performance. After that, agency of quality control sends a team of specialists to consider whether school meets standards or not. There is observation school every two years. Next, quality control must be recognized by the governor or the council for higher education. After that, almost of all agencies are recognized by CHEA and Department of Education. Students must attend a school. Next, Foreign students must consider why they should care much about all of this. After all, foreign students do not receive objectives from government. However, every school must be asked for controlling educational quality lead to development in better way.

 Conclusion, accreditation or quality control is important for improving quality of school. Accreditation tells employers that studies should be quality standards. America Education is focused on it for preparing students with higher abilities. In addition, quality control can use for one school and move to another. There are 7,000 schools and more than 19,000 programs were controlled quality by American organization last year. You can find all accredited schools and programs on website “chea.org.” It provides advices about education and accreditation.  In my opinion, I agree with this article because it has good guideline for improving education both to avoid worthless educational programs and how to control education quality by agencies. May I ask readers how you give opinion about this article? Why? How Thai education should be developed in the same way as foreign colleges? Give some comments….

Reference:

Nancy Steinbach.  Foreign Students Series: Accreditation
           Explained.  Accessed from:   (on 14 th August, 2013).

Vocabulary	Pronunciation	Meaning
Accreditation (n)	/əˌkredɪˈteɪʃn/	Quality control การควบคุมคุณภาพ Ex: The Accreditation of Prior Learning scheme allows work experience to be added towards qualifications.
Agency (n)	/ˈeɪdʒənsi/	a business or an organization that provides a particular service especially on behalf of other businesses or organizations ตัวแทน Ex: You can book at your local travel agency.
Nonprofit (adj.)	/nɒn ˈprɒfɪt/	without the aim of making a profit ไม่มีประโยชน์ Ex: The centre is run on a non-profit basis.
Examine (v)	/ɪɡˈzæmɪn/	พิจารณา เรียนรู้ to consider or study an idea, a subject, etc. very carefully Ex: These ideas will be examined in more detail in Chapter 10.
Federal (adj.)	/ˈfedərəl/	มีระบบการบริหารของรัฐบาล having a system of government in which the individual states of a country have control over their own affairs, but are controlled by a central government for national decisions, etc Ex: