Thus, the purpose of this chapter is to present and share two case studies that highlight the academic development and quality of teaching and learning at Sultan Qaboos University in Oman based on perspectives drawn from different disciplines and units involved in supporting and assuring academic quality.
They saw the spanking new, small finishing school with pink walls -- and staffed with a select group of educators, and mentors, plus ancillary support from the city's elite and wealthy class, as assuring academic success and advancement for the disadvantaged minority girls.
In a telephone interview, Dr. Rodas said he supported the concept of transformation and would seek to assure academic excellence and sound financial management at the college, but declined to discuss details of cost-saving steps he might take.
Lemire notes that a new "peer review" procedure established with the Council of Graduate Schools to evaluate programs should help assure academic standards. .
These highly motivated and very well trained people, who have worked hard to assure their academic careers, are now considered too old!
He assured American academics at a private lunch last year at his alma mater, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Boston, that Turkey belonged in Europe, using the same pragmatic language as the Greek foreign minister, George Papandreou.
As well as setting the strategy of the institution and keeping an eye on its financial health, it has to take more interest in academic risk, assuring the quality of the degrees and experience the institution offers.
But Ellis, the academic, assured me that my dweeby form of rebellion was a universal urge. .
The Yale-NUS non-binding memorandum and prospectus assure readers that academic freedom is secure because of the prospective faculty's scholarly excellence, as determined by weights and measures that leave too much wiggle room to a regime like Singapore's, and too little wiggle room for a college of Yale's influence and, one might have thought, its dignity.
The authors weave these narratives around two key themes developed from the academic literature on assuring quality: 'trust' and 'intelligence'intelligence
"A person's disability is not part of the interview process," says Jesky, assuring that selection is based only on "academic abilities.
