For the Australian version It s Academic Australian game show Cleanup rewrite date January 2010 Image It s Academic 2009 12 12.jpg thumb right It s Academic being taped in historic Studio A at NBC owned ... McGarry hosts It s Academic in Washington DC on December 12, 2009 It s Academic is a Television televised academic Quizbowl quiz competition for high school students, currently airing on two NBC affiliates ... , achieved in 2000. Under the name Academic Challenge , the quiz has also been produced on WEWS in Cleveland ... Rice. It s Academic is recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest running quiz ... in association with Altman Productions. 1977 78 championship. It s Academic Presented by Van .... 23rd season premiere. It s Academic . Presented by Mac McGarry . Featuring Churchill, Mount Vernon ... Productions. 1978 79 championship. It s Academic Presented by Van Miller . Featuring Grand Island ... Productions. It s Academic Presented by Van Miller . Featuring Williamsville East, Bishop Timon, and Salamanca ... name central virginia 1988 Altman Productions. It s Academic Presented by Mac McGarry . Featuring Albemarle ... Many teams participating in It s Academic are also active in the Washington region s quizbowl quiz bowl circuit. An It s Academic Australian game show Australian version of the show aired on Network ... took the show national in 2005. http au.tv.yahoo.com b its academic A version was also screened in New ... edition of It s Academic from the mid 1960s through at least 1972, hosted most of the time by Art ... under the It s Academic name, hosted by Ed Grennan . KCBS TV in Los Angeles aired a similarly formatted ... It s Academic from the late 1960s into the 1980s. A similar competition aired in Columbus, Ohio ... TV WOSU , a PBS affiliate, where it still airs today. A version of It s Academic aired on WIVB TV WBEN ... the It s Academic name aired in Richmond, Virginia on the NBC affliliate, WWBT Channel 12, in the 1970s ... . Battle of the Brains has also replaced a version of It s Academic that aired in Hampton Roads ... more details
Academic press may refer to An independent commercial press or subsidized university press focusing on the academic publishing market. Academic Press See also Academic publishing disambig Long comment to avoid being listed on short pages ... more details
Academic Challenge is the name of several television game shows Academic Challenge national Academic Challenge national , an American university level competition Academic Challenge Ohio Academic Challenge Ohio , a high school program throughout Ohio YSU Academic Challenge , a high school and middle school quiz show. It has a rather different game structure than the Ohio Academic Challenge and is for schools in Mahoning and Trumbull counties and the surrounding areas. Similar are National Tournament of Academic Excellence , a non televised national high school competition Commissioner s Academic Challenge , a Florida high school competition See also Academic Games disambig ... more details
Unreferenced date April 2011 Orphan date April 2011 An Academic Pentathlon is an academic competition involving competition in five academic fields of study. The exact subjects involved vary from competition to competition, but typically include subjects from both the sciences and humanities. See also Academic administration Academic Decathlon Academic Games International Mathematical Olympiad International Science Olympiad External links http academicevents.ocde.us pentathlon.htm http alaskapentathlon.org http www.txacadec.org education stub Category Competitions ... more details
Academic quarter may refer to Academic quarter year division , a division of the university academic year into four periods, typically 10 weeks long, in the United States and some other countries Academic quarter class timing , a quarter hour transition period offered to students at some European educational institutions for them to travel between class locations Disambig ... more details
Academic Legion may refer to 36th Infantry Regiment Poland , a Polish regiment formed in the early 20th century Academic Legion Vienna , a revolutionary students group in Vienna in 1848 mil unit dis ... more details
unreferenced date August 2010 Academic analytics is the term for business intelligence used in an academic setting. There is an increasing distinction made between academic analytics and traditional BI because of the unique type of information that university administrators require for decision making. External links http www.educause.edu Resources Browse Academic 20Analytics 16930 Academic Analytics in the EDUCAUSE Resource Library Category Business intelligence ... more details
Academic advising , based in the teaching and learning mission of higher education , is a series of intentional interactions with a curriculum , a pedagogy , and a set of student learning outcomes. Academic advising synthesizes and contextualizes students educational experiences within the frameworks of their aspirations, abilities and lives to extend learning beyond campus boundaries and timeframes. ref name nacada advising def http www.nacada.ksu.edu Clearinghouse AdvisingIssues Concept Advising.htm National Academic Advising Association. 2006 . NACADA concept of academic advising. ref History Academic advising traces its beginnings to the earliest of American colleges including Harvard University . ref http www.nacada.ksu.edu Clearinghouse AdvisingIssues History.htm Gillispie, Brian. 2003 . History of Academic Advising ref The book Academic Advising A Comprehensive Handbook ,sponsored by the National Academic Advising Association NACADA , contains chapters on the historical foundations, theory, current practices, ethics, and legal issues of academic advising. ref http search.proquest.com docview 195176349?accountid 28680 Davis, Kathy J. 2001 . Academic Advising A Comprehensive Handbook ref Standards Of significance to the profession of academic advising are the Standards and Guidelines for Academic Advising that have been developed by the Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education CAS and endorsed by the National Academic Advising Association NACADA . These Standards and Guidelines are available at the http www.nacada.ksu.edu Resources Standards.htm CAS NACADA web site . The Standards and their accompanying Guidelines cover thirteen areas from Mission to Assessment. The current Standards and Guidelines were last updated in 2005. ref http www.nacada.ksu.edu ... and Improvement. National Academic Advising Association, Manhattan, KS. ref See also Academic administration Academic detailing References reflist Related links http advising.qc.cuny.edu Academic Advising ... more details
In academia , specialization American and British English spelling differences ise.2C ize .28 isation.2C ization.29 or specialisation may be a course of study or Academic major major at an academic institution or may refer to the field that a specialist disambiguation specialist practices in. edu stub Category Academia Specialization ... more details
Primarysources article date October 2009 Infobox publisher image parent Elsevier status founded founder successor country United States headquarters Waltham, Massachusetts distribution keypeople publications topics Science genre imprints revenue numemployees nasdaq url http www.elsevierdirect.com imprint.jsp?iid 5 www.elsevierdirect.com Academic Press is an academic book publisher . Originally independent, it was acquired by Harcourt publisher Harcourt, Brace & World in 1969. Reed Elsevier bought Harcourt in 2000, and Academic Press is now an imprint of Elsevier . Academic Press publishes reference books, serials and online products in the subject areas of Communications engineering Economics Environmental science Finance Food science and nutrition Life sciences Neuroscience Physical sciences Psychology Well known products include the Methods in Enzymology series and encyclopedias such as The International Encyclopedia of Public Health and the Encyclopedia of Neuroscience . External links http www.elsevierdirect.com imprint.jsp?iid 5 Academic Press website , including title lists, multimedia and catalogues Reed Elsevier Category Academic publishing companies Category Book publishing companies of the United Kingdom Category Book publishing companies of Massachusetts Category Elsevier imprints US publish corp stub es Academic Press fr Academic Press ru Academic Press ... more details
An Academic Senate is a governing body in some universities and colleges , and is typically the supreme academic authority for the institution. ref Citation last Birnbaum first R. title The latent organizational functions of the academic senate why senates do not work but will not go away journal The Journal ... In Scotland , the Senatus Academicus is the supreme academic body of an ancient university , given ... academic degree degree programmes, issuing degrees to graduands and Honorary Degree honorary recipients ... Faculties Professors of the University Heads of Academic Departments Directors of Academic Services ... thumb A meeting of the Academic Senate at Georgia Southern University . see also Higher education in the United States In the United States of America the Academic Senate ... units. Individual faculty or academic department s such as the Department of Biology or units such as the library may select representatives for the Academic Senate. The Academic Senate normally creates university academic policy that applies to the university. The policy created by the Academic ... levels of the court systems. While a majority of universities and colleges have some form of an academic ... and the presence of an academic senate indicating that an academic senate acts as an organizational force for the decentralization of a university in the area of academics. The Academic Senate meets ..., which are assigned particular areas of responsibility for policy formation. The officers of the Academic ... of the university . Other officers are Academic Senate members who are elected to officer posts ... s may be ex officio members of the Academic Senate. Motions, recommendations, or actions that are generated by the Academic Senate through discussion and which are passed by the body are never final ... See also Academic administration Ancient university governance in Scotland General Council Scottish ..., Academic Category Academia Category Ancient universities of Scotland cs Akademick sen t es Claustro ... more details
File Bishop Auckland GCSE results.png thumb right Chart of comparative performance in GCSE results. Academic achievement or academic performance is the outcome of education &mdash the extent to which a student, teacher or institution has achieved their educational goals. Academic achievement is commonly measured by examination s or continuous assessment but there is no general agreement on how it is best tested or which aspects are most important &mdash procedural knowledge such as skill s or declarative knowledge such as fact s. ref citation title Educational Measurement author Annie Ward, Howard W. Stoker, Mildred Murray Ward chapter Achievement and Ability Tests Definition of the Domain pages 2 5 volume 2 publisher University Press of America year 1996 isbn 9780761803850 ref In California, the achievement of schools is measured by the Academic Performance Index California public schools Academic Performance Index . Individual differences influencing academic performance Individual differences in academic performance have been linked to differences in intelligence and personality traits personality . ref name 3rdpillar Cite journal first Sophie last von Stumm authorlink coauthors Hell, Benedikt Chamorro Premuzic, Tomas year 2011 month date title The Hungry Mind Intellectual Curiosity Is the Third Pillar of Academic Performance quote journal Perspective on Psychological Science volume 6 issue 6 pages 574 588 doi id url http pps.sagepub.com content 6 6 574 format accessdate February 11, 2012 ref Students with higher mental ability as demonstrated by IQ tests quick learners and those who are higher in conscientiousness linked to effort and achievement motivation tend to achieve highly in academic settings. A recent meta analysis suggested that mental curiosity as measured by typical intellectual engagement has an important influence on academic achievement in addition to intelligence and conscientiousness. ref name 3rdpillar See also academic standards References reflist ... more details
Citations missing date April 2008 Image De Groot academic genealogy.svg thumb 240px An example of an academic genealogy, the supervisorial relationship between Dutch topology topologist Johannes De Groot and his namesake, also a Dutch topologist descended from the senior De Groot via four different paths of academic supervision An academic , or scientific, genealogy , organizes a family tree of scientists and scholars according to doctoral advisor dissertation supervision relationships. The academic lineage or academic ancestry of someone is a chain of professors who have served as academic advisor thesis advisor s of each other, ending with the person in question. Many genealogy genealogical terms are often recast in terms of academic lineages, so one may speak of academic descendants , children , siblings , etc. This is an informal concept, used mostly for amusement of academics and students ... academic lineages for specific subject areas. However, not all the links recorded in databases of this type ... a formal doctoral thesis until 1919, and academic genealogies that include earlier Cambridge students tend to substitute an equivalent mentor. Academic genealogies are particularly easy to research ... trace back their academic lineage to a Doctoral supervisor who was a member of Complutense s Faculty. Genealogies Academic genealogy of chemists Academic genealogy of computer scientists Mathematics Genealogy Project Academic genealogy of theoretical physicists See also Erd s number References reflist External links ONLY INCLUDE HERE LINKS TO GENEALOGIES OF SIGNIFICANT ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES. Genealogies ... of academic departments at individual universities do not belong here. http academictree.org The Academic Family Tree http genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu Mathematics genealogy search http www.scs.uiuc.edu ... xie sefamily.htm Software engineering academic genealogy http www.cse.psu.edu yuanxie community genealogy Computer engineering academic genealogy http www.aapps.org archive bulletin vol13 13 6 13 6 ... more details
Unreferenced date May 2010 Academic Superstore, LP is subsidiary of Journey Education Marketing, Inc a company which sells software and hardware at academic prices to students, teachers and schools in the United States and Canada. It was founded in 1998 in Austin, Texas . In 2005, Academic Superstore was selected as an Inc. 500 company. In 2006, their online newsletter won a Clickz.com award for best business to consumer e newsletter. references External links http www.academicsuperstore.com Academic Superstore website Category Retail companies of the United States Category Companies based in Austin, Texas US retail company stub tech company stub ... more details
Orphan date December 2008 Unreferenced date July 2009 An academic psychologist is a qualified psychologist who endorses the view that psychology is a scholar ly and science scientific enterprise, not an informal and intuitive practice. To qualify as an academic psychologist, a person should minimally possess, or be in the process of acquiring, a PhD doctoral degree in psychology from an organized, sequential program in a regionally accredited university or professional school these being the guidelines set by the American Psychological Association for occupationally defining someone as a psychologist . Many Licensed Professional Counselor counselors and psychotherapist s, lacking the requisite qualifications and outlook, would not qualify as academic psychologists Citation needed date July 2009 . Academic psychologists typically engage in Empirical research Citation needed date July 2009 , and publish in an array of journals, such as Psychological Science journal Psychological Science . DEFAULTSORT Academic Psychologist Category Psychologists psych stub ... more details
for the journal Academic Medicine journal Academic medicine is a loosely defined term which describes the branch of medicine pursued by physician doctor s who engage in a variety of scholar ly activities. While the traditional role of clinical academics is to provide clinical care, do medical research research , and teach, academics today may also spend some of their time in managerial and representative roles. The clinical workload varies, and a few academics may choose to abandon clinical medicine altogether. Every academic has a different work description, which is one of the many attractions of an academic career. ref name BMJ group BMJ cite web last BMJ first BMJ title Academic medicine url http careers.bmj.com careers advice view article.html?id 2942 work Olivia Kingston, Sam Behjati publisher BMJ Careers accessdate 27 February 2011 ref References references group BMJ Category Medicine ... more details
Image CarlXVIGustafiLund1990.jpg thumb 260px Academic procession on the occasion of the conferment of doctoral degrees at Lund University , Sweden in 1990. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden Carl XVI Gustaf is wearing a doctoral hat as holder of an honorary doctorate, and to the right of him is seen rector magnificus H kan Westling in his purple robes of office. An academic procession is a traditional ceremony in which university dignitaries march together wearing traditional academic dress . An academic procession forms a usual part of college and university graduation exercises. At many U.S. universities, the colors and styles of regalia are determined by a uniform dress code established in 1895 ref dress . The installation of a university president is usually accompanied by a much more elaborate academic procession, involving visiting celebrants from other universities. In such processions, the order of appearance is governed by the institution s date of founding, oldest first. For example, when Dwight D. Eisenhower Eisenhower was installed at Columbia University Columbia in 1948 blockquote ...dignitaries from the world s oldest universities&mdash University of Bologna Bologna , University ... blockquote The order of academic processions explains in part why universities have a tendency to use ... effect of placing Penn ahead of Princeton in academic processions that in turn represented, in highly ... universities banded together to establish a national system of academic regalia that asserted an age and class based hierarchy and was most obviously expressed by placement in academic processions. blockquote See also Academic administration Encaenia References note dress See Academic dress and American Council on Education, An Academic Costume Code and An Academic Ceremony Guide, http www.acenet.edu ..., ISBN 0 7658 0036 5. Description of academic procession, p. 119 note thomas Thomas, George E. 2002 , Building ... thomas.html online text Category Academic culture ... more details
Unsourced date January 2011 Academic administration is a branch of university or college employees responsible for the maintenance and supervision of the institution and separate from the Faculty division faculty or academics , although some personnel may have joint responsibilities. Some type of separate administrative structure exists at almost all academic institutions, as fewer and fewer schools are governed by employees who are also involved in academic or scholarly work. Many administrators are academics that have advanced degrees and no longer teach or conduct research actively. Key responsibilities Key administrative responsibilities and thus administrative units in academic institutions include Admissions Supervision of academic affairs such as hiring, promotion, tenure , and evaluation ... academic registrar in the US In the UK the Registrar is in charge of all non academic matters ..., and federal governments United States Academic administrations are structured in various ways at different ... or Vice President for Academic Affairs serves as the chief academic officer. Dean Dean education ... among deans varies widely among institutions some are chiefly responsible for clusters of academic fields such as the humanities or natural sciences or whole academic units such as a graduate school or college , while others are responsible for non academic but campus wide concerns such as minority ... academic staff, occupying a position generally superior to any dean. In other instances the Dean of a College may be the equivalent to a Provost or Vice Chancellor or Vice President of Academic Affairs. Below deans in the administrative hierarchy are heads of individual academic department s and of individual ... to the Vice Chancellor. The Vice Chancellor tends at present to be a former or current academic though ... Affairs. The Academic Registrar is often included in this next tier. Their role tends to centre ... Academic administration Category Academia Category Educational administration Category University governance ... more details
Distinguish Educational capital Academic capital is a term used by sociologists to represent how an individual s amount of education and other academic experience can be used to gain a place in society. Much like other forms of Capital economics capital social, economic, cultural , academic capital doesn ... factors, including the individual s academic transmission from his her family, status of the academic institutions attended, and publications produced by the individual. History Academic capital ... space, which is dependent on each type of capital the individual has. He explained Academic ... capital , economic capital , and cultural capital at length, he did not explore academic capital in equal detail. His 1986 essay, The Forms of Capital does not refer to academic capital as one of the main types of capital that affects the success of individuals therefore he does not see academic ... and the rise of individuals in academia. Numerous studies have been done involving the idea of academic capital, and scholars have disagreed on what counts as academic capital. Bourdieu s definition of the term ... to academic capital refer solely to professional teachers and researchers within higher education. For example, in 2009, Michael Burawoy defined academic capital as being estimated from an individual .... ref but admitted that it was subjective because some fields of study seem to value certain academic qualities more than others research, in psychology or study abroad, for scholars of Spanish. Academic capital is not to be confused with other terms that sound familiar academic capitalism , intellectual ..., considered a capital cost . Academic capitalism is when universities act like profit ... While there is not one specific way to measure academic capital, researchers throughout the world have enacted studies that quantify an individual s academic capital. Some of the ways researchers have attempted to measure academic capital are through Years of schooling ref name Distinction Number ... more details
Refimprove date September 2011 In the United States and Canada, an academic major or major concentration informally, major or concentration is the academic discipline to which an undergraduate student formally commits. A student who successfully completes the courses prescribed in an academic major qualify for an undergraduate degree . Abbott Lawrence Lowell introduced the academic major system to Harvard University in 1910, during his presidency there. It required students to complete courses not only in a specialized discipline, but also in other subjects. ref name McGrath cite journal last1 McGrath first1 Charles last2 first2 year 2006 date 8 January 2006 title What Every Student Should Know journal The New York Times volume issue pages publisher The New York Times Company url http www.nytimes.com 2006 01 08 education edlife harvard.html?emc eta1 accessdate 23 September 2011 ref Variations of this system are now definitive among tertiary education Educational institution institutions in the United States and Canada. In England and various member states of the Commonwealth of Nations , an academic major is called a course . Today, an academic major typically comprises a core curriculum of prescribed Course education courses , a liberal arts curriculum, and several elective course s. The amount of latitude a student has in choosing courses varies from program to program. ref name McGrath Typically, the courses of an academic major are portioned in several academic term s. A major is administered by select faculty in an academic department . A major administered by more than one academic department is called an interdisciplinary major . Whereas some students choose a major .... Some schools forbid students from declaring a major until the end of their second academic year . A student who declares two academic majors is said to have a double major . A coordinate major is an ancillary ... credit s to complete. Compare with academic minor and joint honours . References Reflist See also Academia ... more details
Image Academic Earth.png 250px thumb Academic Earth is a website launched March 24, 2009, by Richard Ludlow and co founders Chris Bruner and Liam Pisano, ref cite web url http www.reuters.com article pressRelease idUS157269 24 Mar 2009 PRN20090324 title Academic Earth Launches Website Offering Free Video Lectures from Leading Universities date March 24, 2009 publisher Reuters accessdate 2009 08 22 ref ref name hulued cite news url http www.washingtonpost.com wp dyn content article 2009 03 24 AR2009032400958.html title Academic Earth Is The Hulu For Education accessdate 2009 03 26 work The Washington Post first Leena last Rao date 2009 03 24 ref which offers free online video lectures from universities such as UC Berkeley , UCLA , University of Michigan , Harvard , MIT , Princeton University Princeton , Stanford , and Yale ref cite web url http academicearth.org universities title Academic Earth Universities accessdate 2009 03 26 archiveurl http web.archive.org web 20090331102234 http www.academicearth.org universities archivedate 31 March 2009 DASHBot deadurl no ref in the subjects of Astronomy , Biology , Chemistry , Computer Science , Economics , Engineering , English literature English ... Science , Psychology , and Religion . ref cite web url http academicearth.org subjects title Academic Earth Subjects accessdate 2009 03 26 ref History The idea behind Academic Earth came to Ludlow upon ... research, he found out that there are various academic resources online although these resources were scattered across different websites and in varying file formats. Patterned after Hulu , Academic Earth serves as an easily accessible repository for online academic lectures. ref name hulued On January, 10, 2012, it was announced that Academic Earth has been acquired by Ampush Media. ref cite ... reflist See also VideoLectures.net NalandaU.com External links http academicearth.org Academic ... Academic Earth zh ... more details
other uses Microsoft Academic Search Academic Search ISSN 1097 0886 , Library of Congress Control Number LCCN sn97001287 is a monthly indexing service. It was first published in 1997 by EBSCO Publishing in Ipswich, Massachusetts . Its academic focus was international universities , covering social science , education , psychology , and other subjects. Publishing formats covered were academic journals ... Catalog record work Bibliographic information for Academic Search publisher Library of Congress date ... title Catalog record work Bibliographic information for Academic Search publisher World Cat date url http www.worldcat.org title academic search oclc 38009982?pgload backtoitem format Online accessdate 2001 11 20 ref Academic Search Complete infobox bibliographic database title Academic Search Complete ..., Social Sciences depth Index, abstract, full text, citation indexing formats full text, academic ... 0886 web http www.ebscohost.com academicacademic search complete titles http www.ebscohost.com Academic Search Complete was first published in 2007, and is formerly known as Academic Premier . It is an indexing ... text, Academic Complete formerly Premier offers indexing and abstracts for more than 10,100 journals ... work Description of Academic Search Complete publisher U.S. Library of Congress date url http eresources.loc.gov ... acsx Cite web title Catalog record work Bibliographic information for Academic Search Complete publisher ... Cite web title CLIO Catalog record work Bibliographic information with description for Academic Search ... can be included , academic journal titles, author, publication dates, abstracts, summations ... valencia ascx Cite web title Valencia Catalog record work Description of Academic Search Complete publisher ... Academic Search Premier journal volume pages publisher Univ. of Pittsburg Library System location ... accessdate 2011 01 12 Category Bibliographic databases Category EBSCO Industries es Academic Search fi Academic Search ... more details
An academic stole is a vestment used by various organizations to denote academic achievement. Its use includes membership of a professional organization, ref cite web url http www.oku.org STOLE.htm title OKU ACADEMIC ATTIRE publisher Omicron Kappa Upsilon, National Dental Honor Society accessdate 2007 08 11 archiveurl http web.archive.org web 20070704045918 http oku.org STOLE.htm archivedate 4 July 2007 DASHBot deadurl no ref a high school valedictorian award, ref cite news url http www.newsdemocratleader.com articles 2006 05 26 news school news snews03.txt title Lewisburg School honors class of 2006 publisher News Democrat & Leader accessdate 2007 08 11 date 2006 05 26 ref and adorns the academic regalia representing some university and college courses. A stole takes the form of a cloth scarf like garment worn over the shoulders adorned with the awarding Society s colours and or insignia. Though not a part of officially recognised American Council on Education s Academic Costume Code, it has become common as part of the graduation attire at many high schools, colleges, and universities. ref cite web url http www.acenet.edu AM Template.cfm?Section Search&template CM HTMLDisplay.cfm&ContentID 10625 Other title Academic Costume Code and Ceremony Guide Other Apparel publisher American Council on Education accessdate 2011 02 03 archiveurl http web.archive.org web 20101222232450 http www.acenet.edu AM Template.cfm?Section Search&template CM HTMLDisplay.cfm&ContentID 10625 archivedate 22 December 2010 DASHBot deadurl no ref In many universities in the Commonwealth, particularly Australia, the stole is worn by graduates lower than the degree of Bachelor , such as Certificate, Diploma, Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma, Associate Diploma, Advanced Diploma and Associate Degree ... awarded a Diploma or Certificate in the Arts Faculty. See also Academic degree Robe References reflist Category Academic dress Stole clothing stub ... more details
File Einstein diploma.jpg thumb right Albert Einstein Einstein s high school diploma school certificate , authorised by the Aargau education committee. Academic standards are the Benchmarking benchmarks of quality and excellence in education such as the rigour of curriculum curricula and the difficulty of examination s. ref citation url http books.google.co.uk books?id VGopGkTxmLkC&pg PA1 title Really raising standards author Philip Adey, Michael Shayer ref The extension of higher education to an increasingly large proportion of the population has led to concern that this has resulted in dilution of the academic elitism academic elite and so caused a lowering of academic standards. ref citation title Academic Standards and Mass Higher Education author Martin Trow journal Higher Education Quarterly volume 41 issue 3 pages 268 292 date 13 Aug 2007 ref UK In the UK, standards are maintained by inspection by bodies such as the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education QAA and the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation Ofqual . The Dearing Report considered the matter in 1997 and recommended that benchmarking be used to measure and improve academic standards in higher education . ref citation url http www.springerlink.com content r350566m3xqh553p title Benchmarking Academic Standards in the UK author Mantz Yorke journal Tertiary Education and Management volume 5 number 1 pages 79 94 doi 10.1023 A 1018753222965 ref USA In the USA, regulation is at state level by bodies such as the Standards and Assessment Division of the Arizona Department of Education . See also Academic achievement References reflist Category Educational assessment and evaluation education stub ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Academic mobility refers to students and teachers in higher education moving to another institution inside or outside their own country to study or teach for a limited time. Academic mobility suffers from cultural, socio economical and academic barriers. The Bologna process is an attempt to lower these obstacles within the European higher education area . Mobile students are usually divided into two groups free movers are students that travel entirely on their own initiative, while programme students use exchange programmes at department, faculty, institution or national level such as Erasmus programme Erasmus , Nordplus or Fulbright Fellowship Fulbright . Nowadays, the traditional Erasmus exchange which involves travelling has been complemented with Virtual mobility , or Virtual Erasmus, in which students from different countries may study together without leaving their home. See also International students Bologna process Erasmus programme Belgian American Educational Foundation BAEF Virtual mobility DEFAULTSORT Academic Mobility Category Academia Mobility Edu stub ... more details
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