Template 2013 with visible comments

VISCED staff should copy across any Re.ViCa information on universities and polytechnics but should not create any new information or even update any information unless it is quick to do so

Read other pages to ensure you are not providing too much detail

Detailed information on relevant ministries, agencies and institutions should be created on separate pages and linked in to this page

by Paul Bacsich, Sero (Replace by name(s) of lead author(s) and also cite the main Re.ViCa author.)

Partners and Experts in Country

This should include VISCED partners in the country, or partners from other current/former relevant projects such as Re.ViCa or POERUP

as well as members of IAC and other experts in universities, key ministries or agencies

Education in Country

overview of all sectors (schools and post-secondary), focussing on laws, statistics, organisation, ministries and agencies

if already in page, make the Re.ViCa header "Education Policy in Country" a subheader of "Education in Country"

Schools in Country

cover pre-primary, primary and secondary (all kinds including vocational)

please include an introduction to schools and a list of schools. If there are too many schools in this country, link to an external list of all the schools (on Ministry’s website or Wikipedia) and list the most important ones (well-known school or exemplar)

make sure you include private schools (non-profit, e.g. foundations and for-profit)

include a section on homeschooling if applicable

Further and Higher education

Universities in Country

this should already cover public and private (non-profit and for-profit) including open universities -->

Polytechnics in Country

this should already cover polytechnics, universities of applied sciences, university colleges etc

and public and private (non-profit and for-profit) including open polytechnics

Colleges in Country

colleges with university-level provision - such as US community colleges - should be covered here unless they have over 50% university-level provision, in which case they should be covered under "polytechnics"

cover public and private (non-profit and for-profit)

Education reform

focus on the last 10 years at most

Post-secondary

divide into universities, polytechnics and colleges if need be

VISCED authors should focus just on colleges

if already in page, make “The Bologna Process” a subheader of universities

copy any Re.ViCa information on universities and polytechnics

Administration and finance

Schools

describe any issues of school fees or other costs if state schools are not free

Post-secondary

divide into universities, polytechnics and colleges if need be

for colleges, describe the student fees regime if colleges charge student fees

Quality assurance, inspection and accreditation

Schools

describe the inspection agencies

Post-secondary

subdivide as necessary - QA for HE is usually very different from QA for colleges

describe the accreditation regime and the QA agency or agencies

Information society

for some background on this rather vague but still pervasive concept see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_society

overview, focussing on laws, ministries, agencies and initiatives

Internet in Country

focussing on statistics, rankings, technology and uptake

Educational internets in Country

cover NREN and schools networking

include any Re.ViCa material from the section "Country's HEIs in the information society"

Copyright law in Country

cover copyright, Creative Commons, open access publishing and open educational resource licenses

cover current law and proposed changes in the law

ICT in education initiatives

Virtual initiatives in schools

include virtual schools, virtual classes, schools consuming virtual classes, and other initiatives including not-schools and services for homeschoolers

create a separate wiki page per "school" and add here a short introduction and link to the separate school wiki page.

OER initiatives in schools

cover national, regional and institutional in that order and in that order of priority

Virtual initiatives in post-secondary education

for important countries you will want to divide this into universities, polytechnics and colleges

include virtual campuses and virtual universities (distance education) as well as on-campus initiatives

OER initiatives in post-secondary education

cover national, regional and institutional in that order and in that order of priority

Lessons learnt

you cannot write this until other material is complete and you have had time to review it

Notable practices

include exemplar practices (ones to follow) as well as practices to avoid

References

cite the relevant Wikipedia, OECD, UNESCO, EU, EUN, ICT4D, etc reports

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