Comparability Standard Validation

 

Comparability Standard Validation involves the academic assessment and evaluation of a whole University's establishment regarding its suitability to award degrees in accordance with the academic standard required by the Government's Accrediting Agency such as the Nigerian Universities Commission(NUC) of the Ministry of Education before awarding Degrees in accordance with Nigerian laws.

On the international scene, such function is being performed by the University of California FCA and several other professional bodies around the world of which WES of Canada is the famous among them.

This also includes the assessment and evaluation of the Certificate, Diploma and Degrees awarded by any tertiary institution to a student applying for admission into the University of another country.

The Academic Assessment and Evaluation Experts would carry on their investigation regarding the educational standard of the country, the University's facilities, Curriculum and the student's academic performance to compare with the foreign country educational standard and the Curriculum of the University the student wish to study.

This comparability assessment and evaluation exercise will result in determining the academic equivalence of the student's current academic qualification before gaining admission into the foreign University.

 In most cases, based on the equivalent result, the Bachelor Degree could either be downgraded to an Ordinary Diploma status in line with the academic standard of the University the student is applying for admission or may be exempted from part of the programme on gaining the Admission before advancing to Master's Degree programme.

Accreditation of Prior Learning And Experience Award

This form of validation requires the assessment and evaluation of an Applicant who had not received any form of formal education but very passionate to acquire either Diploma or Degree but seems impossible due to poor academic background. Take as an example, he or she is an expert in hotel management business without any academic or professional qualification in that field. This type of validation is known as "Accreditation of Prior Learning and Experience Award" based on UNESCO's rules.

On the other hand, it involves the evaluation and assessment of Individual's informal training and professional skills already acquired outside the Classroom studies and to be given the equivalent credit for direct admission into the tertiary institution either to begin from Level 100 or become exempted from part of Level 200 of the programme based on the evaluation and assessment result without passing through the normal Admission Procedure.

Consequently, like in France, there are two types of Graduates from tertiary Institutions. One is known as "Validation Des acquis de I,experience (VAE) which stand for "VALIDATION OF ACQUIRED EXPERIENCE". The other is to follow-up the required Procedure prior to admission; while the VAE model does not require University's Admission Procedure but any individual would be awarded either Diploma or Degree based on assessment and evaluation Result.

Based on this Development, the European-American University had been registered with the French Government based on the VAE Model Award for the evaluation and assessment of Prospective Applicant's Portfolio  either for Diploma or Degree Award dependent on the equivalent qualification  based on UNESCO rules as applicable in the United States and other parts of the world.

She awards Secular Degrees based on the VAE Model to her overseas graduates from France as the country of origin based on the fact that she is Tax Exempted in France recognized as one of the None Profit Organizations being a Religious University unlike in the United States where Tax Exemption is only for Religious Universities awarding Religious Degrees and not Secular Degrees.

As a matter of fact, she is the subsidiary of Western Orthodox University being her parent religious body. So she also maintains her religious status as None Profit Organization to award secular Degrees without Taxation.

Consequently, the University do establish her presence in other countries around the world wherever she would be Tax Exempted to award Secular Degrees in line with their Legislation in order to keep her fees affordable to the less privileged unlike other Institutions operating in higher Tax Rate Regions.

FOREIGN UNIVERSITIES VERIFICATION GUIDELINES

 Most Universities and professional organizations around the world operate under Charted Status upgraded from the Accredited Status in order to become an independent entity exempted from the regular performance, assessment and evaluation checklist like the University of London and several tertairy institutions around the world, specially the private universities whose cost of evaluation and performance  assessment checks and the related fees are not subsidized quite unlike the public or government owned universities like the University of London being one of the private Universities in the U.K under Chartered Status.  Vicent University Owerenta in Abia State is  one of those private Universities in Nigeria under Chartered Status.

Consequently it would be seen as though those Chartered Universities are not Accredited having been exempted from the list of Accredited Universities like the University of London and Several others in the U.K and around the world.

In another development, the names of foreign Universities are not included in the list of those indigenous Accredited or Chartered Universities in most countries due to the dichotomy existing between foreign Universities and the indigenous Universities in terms of prospective foreign students patronage seeking to gain admission into any of those Universities in the host countries whose names are  published in the official Database and websites; but excluding the foreign Universities which the host countries official would regard as rivary institutions and instead will promote their indigenous Universities; unless the foreign University is legally  registered and incorporated to operate as one of those indigenous Universities with local Investors as a joint venture and not One Hundred Percent foreign ownership.

Consequently, the European-American University was legally registered and incorporated in Uganda as a Chartered University in order to award her degrees to African students at an affordable cost whose fees could be higher lf she is incorporated under the Charter in the United States her country of origin with higher tax rates.

Being a foreign Chartered University, she is not included among the indigenous list of the Accredited or Chartered Universities based on the afforementioned development.

However, the Ministry of External Affairs in the host country will provide such list of both foreign Universities and foreign companies based on  the Bilateral Cooperation Agreement reached between both countries; such list could be accessible through the Embassy officials of the foreign University's country of origin in the host country and not through the Ministry of Education of the Host Country dealing with the indigenous Universities Database.

However, it is necessary to indicate the region (such as State, Province, Kingdom etc) the foreign University registered in the host country to enable the Embassy official in the host  country carry out their verification through the Ministry of External Affairs in accordance with your directive.

HOW THE UNIVERSITY OPERATES IN AFRICA

On the "Affiliated Campuses" of the European-American University's webpage reads:-

European-American University conducts no educational activities in Africa directly and no citizen of any African country is an employee or owner of the University. The University does not own or rent any form of premises in Africa, does not maintain any offshore campus or distance learning centre there, and is not part of any national system of education in any African country.

The above information implies that the University has given the authority to her international Partner's to treat any inquiry from prospective student within the African region; that the University will advise any  prospective student contacting them within the region to contact any of her Affiliated Campuses also known as "International Partners":directly which is indeed a welcome development. 

The information also indicated that the University is not part of any national system of education in any African country.

The above information takes the following analysis:-

ROYAL CHARTER

The University was Incorporated in Uganda under her Royal Charter making her becomes autonomus and independent from any Government Educational Authority in any part of the world in accordance with UNESCO's rules.

The Charter would have been done in any of those Advanced countries but she chooses any of the African countries to avoid high taxation in order to make her Secular Degrees affordable to prospective African Students being the  subsidiary of the Western Orthodox University founded since 1945 immediately after the Second World War.

Any Chartered institution becomes self accrediting and independent from the Ministry of Education's stringent policy  and rules like the University of London and others in the U.K and in other parts of the world. (Check Google search Results for more details).

BILATERAL AND MULTILERAL INSTITUTIONS

The aforementioned Institutions play significant role in the national educational sector regarding her manpower development, basic Educational infrastructure and technology transfer based on the Balateral and Multilateral Agreement signed with the host government by the aforementioned Institutions.

 This is however, Government -to- Government support  initiative and does not involve individual University directly: but  based on the national educational frame work through her Ministry of Education and her Accrediting Agency. Consequently, only the endigenous Government approved Universities would benefit from the scheme.

However, foreign University may be involved for her manpower development in the educational project through her Consultancy unit like the University of California FCA as Training Consultant involving the Staff of the Ministry of Education in the host country in order to operate her educational system effectively in conformity with international standard practices and in accordance with UNESCO's rules.

EDUCATIONAL JOINT VENTURE PARNERSHIP

Foreign Investors in the educational sector would cooperate with other educational investors in another country to establish a joint venture University. In which case, they must follow all the due process in line with the host government parameters relating to foreign joint venture establishment and in cooperation with the Ministry of Education through her Accrediting Agency like the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) of Nigeria and the California University FCA of the  United States in order to be qualified for Degree award.

Based on this development, Development Aid Agency had been established in most advanced countries with the purpose of technology transfer through joint venture partnership to the Developing and Least Developed countries as classified by the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Member Nations through project identification, Grants Award for pre-feasibility and feasibility studies on viable projects  that would be of Economic benefit to the host country and providing soft  loans with interest rate far below the conventional lending rates using Development Banks as intermediaries in the host country in which case, the Bilateral and Multilateral financial institutions become the key players.

However, it is not mandatory for every University on Earth  to operate as joint venture for her degree to be recognized in foreign countries. Educational joint venture establishment is based on individual's investor's initiative like  any other business venture.

Consequently, you do not expect every University to form joint ventures in foreign countries for her degrees to be recognized; so it also not applicable for any foreign University to form a joint venture in Nigeria for her degrees to be recognized.

Evidently, there are some thousands of government approved Universities around the world  that are not part of the Nigerian educational system yet their degrees are recognized in Nigeria provided they are verified by the National Youth Service Corps officials to award the NYSC Certificate as proof of recognition.

THE LIMITATIONS OF ONLINE  UNIVERSITY 

The Internet based institutions also known as On-line Universities are quite limited to the required basic  educational infrastructure and other relevant facilities on ground which are used as the main criteria for approval by the Ministry of Education as oppose to the campus based traditional Universities and other tertiary institutions.

Consequently, are automatically excemped from the Bilateral and Multilateral financial support initiative either directly or through the Joint Venture Partnership of the required basic facilities on ground as the basis for which the aforementioned financial support could have been made feasible.

Due to the increasing global Economic inflation, most Universities are going online back-up with sophisticated educational software including verious  forms of video conferencing and other online facilities bridging the gap between classroom and online studies. 

Aside from Engineering and advanced scientific courses that require personal contact, all other courses could be studying online limiting the cost intensiveness of the required basic facilities on ground, high cost of taxation, payment of dues to the Educational Authorities, high cost of labour wages and devoid of labour law infringement.

In the afamative, Lecturers are employed online locating remotely in any part of the world earning  far less  below the nationally approved minimum wage in the online University's country of origin.

Consequently,  operating Online University  is far more advantageous than campus based traditional University  which requires all the state of the art facilities on ground before approval by the Educational Authorities while it becomes irrelevant for the online University operation and would not require Bilateral and Multilateral financial support either directly or indirectly and cannot fit into the national Educational system within the African region and around the world like the European-American University; provided she had been legally approved to award her overseas degrees from her country of origin operating through the internet and through her Affiliated Campuses as every online operatives around the world in the digital age.