ECHEA is a non-governmental, independent, and international quality assurance, rating, and accreditation agency working to improve quality assurance standards of educational organizations all over the world. With its global network of experts, ECHEA grants accreditation to universities, colleges, schools, educational institutes, vocational institutions, distance learning centers, online courses, corporations, professionals, qualified individuals, instructors, and students.
Regional accreditation bodies have dutifully evaluated education providers on a regional scale and granted them Primary Accreditation. However, the rapid growth of globalization calls for a global entity that can evaluate them against internationally proven standards of education and grant them an internationally recognized Secondary Accreditation. ECHEA provides international and independent accreditation to the education providers to serve as secondary accreditation, enhance the entity´s regional accreditation, and assure stakeholders that the educational program, policies, and procedures of the institute, university, and school are up to the international standards of quality. ECHEA´s International Accreditation represents an education provider´s commitment to delivering quality that is on a par with the global standards.
ECHEA also offers international accreditation services to small, medium, and large-scale corporations. ECHEA´s international accreditation for corporations ensures that the organizations are operating according to the international principles and standards of quality. It assures the business community´s confidence and trust in your business structure, management & performance. It also provides international recognition of your business and quality practices all over the world.
The mission of ECHEA is to establish, preserve and promote the finest quality standards worldwide by acting as a catalyst for information, training, and networking to universities, colleges, schools, educational institutions, vocational institutions, distance learning centers, online courses, corporations, professionals, qualified individuals, instructors, and students. ECHEA is a non-governmental, independent, and international membership organization and quality assurance agency that promotes research, collaboration, best practices, evidence based research to move together into the era of increasingly digitized education. A leader in the transition from old norms to new standards for a new age. The agency equips individuals and institutions committed to such changes with the knowledge they need to bring those changes about.
ECHEA was established with a vision to promote the development and maintenance of quality and ethical standards in major industry verticals, across the globe. The development was made possible using standard setting, evaluation, and consultation processes. ECHEA identifies and accredits educational organizations that have attained and maintained the standards deemed necessary to operate according to our established quality and best business practices criteria. ECHEA is committed to promoting high standards of quality assurance benchmarking to recognize professional excellence and to provide an invaluable guide to quality and recognition in the complex sector for organizations worldwide.
ECHEA is a non-governmental, independent, and international quality assurance, rating, and accreditation agency based in EU, USA, UK working to improve quality assurance standards of educational organizations all over the world. Therefore it uses EU, USA, UK higher education regulations and directives when reviewing an applicant. In some cases, ECHEA can use the applicant country´s regulations, too. Also, ECHEA gets support from its local partner institutions (universities, state agencies, associations, etc) when accrediting a course/program that has a curriculum.
ECHEA grants accreditation to educational institutions, vocational institutions, distance learning centers, online courses, and corporations, and certification to professionals, qualified individuals, instructors, and students. ECHEA can´t give any titles or degrees to the accredited institute´s students, or can´t give authorization about the diploma, work, opening an office, etc. Also, ECHEA does not control or oversee the documents, certificates, diplomas, titles, degrees, rights, and authorizations issued (given) by the accredited institution. All rights and legal liabilities of these belong to the institution that carries out the transaction. ECHEA periodically checks the educational quality of the institution and the up-to-dateness of the curriculum of the course/program and reports to the relevant institution.
Initially, agents who are already known to work to high standards will be invited to join the association. Every agent also completes an application form, submits a profile and signs an ethics agreement with ECHEA. All agents must submit two references from colleges or universities which they represent. A committee of ECHEA members approves membership applications and monitor performance and adherence to the ECHEA code of practices. Details of all accredited agents will be forwarded to the relevant government and VISA offices worldwide and to educational members of ECHEA. All ECHEA accredited members will be entitled to show the ECHEA kite mark.
ECHEA is wholly financed through membership fees paid by agents and educational members. ECHEA does not receive any direct payment from students for educational services provided by ECHEA. If universities or other Educational Institutions and Language Schools are offering any special scholarships or bursary these may be highlighted on the ECHEA website.
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