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Subject index
List of Acronyms
| Acronym | Title | Function |
| ACE | American Council onEducation http://www.acenet.edu | ACE, the major coordinating body for all of the nation's higher education institutions, seeks to provide leadership and a unifying voice on higher education issues and to influence public policy through advocacy, research, and program initiatives. |
| AU | African Union http://www.au.int | AU, with more than 20 member states, works toward an integrated, prosperous and peaceful Africa, driven by its own citizens and representing a dynamic force in global arenas. |
| AHELO | Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes http://www.oecd.org/edu/ahelo | AHELO is a landmark project involving about 15 countries with the goal of developing frameworks and instruments in the fields of engineering and economics; it is evaluating the feasibility of assessing learning outcomes in cross-culturally relevant ways. |
| AIEA | Association of International Education Administrators: Leaders in International Higher Education http://www.aieaworld.org/ | AIEA is a member-based professional association comprised of leaders in international higher education around the world who are engaged in advancing the international dimensions of higher education through opportunities of networking, exchanging ideas, sharing institutional strategies and knowledge, and being an effective voice on matters of public policy. |
| AIRC | American International Recruitment Council http://www.airc-education.org | AIRC is a nonprofit membership association of accredited U.S. postsecondary institutions and student recruitment agencies that work together to establish quality standards for international student placement within the United States. |
| ANIE | African Network for Internationalization of Education http://www.anienetwork.org | ANIE is a membership-based association aiming to take the lead in enhancing the understanding and development of the international dimension of higher education in Africa by expanding knowledge and building, strengthening, and sustaining a cohort of competent professionals in this field. |
| ASEAN | Association of Southeast Asian Nations http://www.aseansec.org | ASEAN is a broadly grounded organization of southeast Asian states, which locates education at the core of its development process, creating a knowledge-based society and contributing to the enhancement of ASEAN competitiveness.l |
| AUCC | Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada http://www.aucc.ca | AUCC is the national voice for Canadian universities, representing 95 public and private not-for-profit universities and university degree-level colleges; it provides university presidents with a unified voice and a forum for collective action. |
| CAPRI | Centre for AcademicPractice and Research inInternationalization http://www.leedsmet.ac.uk/world-widehorizons/index_CAPRI.htm | Based at Leeds Metropolitan University, CAPRI seeks to revolutionize thinking through the development of a community of practitioners focusing on a forward-looking research, implementation and evaluation agenda. As a global professional community, CAPRI aims to share experience and resources, collaborate in research projects and offer insights from around the world as reference points and sources of information with a view to enhancing practice in international education. |
| CIBER | Centers For International Business Education and Research) better known by acronym http://www.ciberweb.msu.edu | CIBER were created by the U.S. Congress to increase and promote the nation's capacity for international understanding and competitiveness; administered by the U.S. Department of Education, the CIBER network links the manpower and technological needs of the U.S. business community with the international education, language training, and research capacities of universities across the country. |
| CIHE | Center for International Higher Education http://www.bc.edu/research/cihe.html | The Center for International Higher Education, based at Boston College, defines its mission as advancing knowledge about the complex realities of higher education in the contemporary world through research, publications, and conferences. |
| CONAHEC | Consortium for North American Higher Education Collaboration http://www.conahec.org | CONAHEC advises and connects institutions interested in establishing or strengthening collaborative programs in the North American region. |
| CONAEVA | Comisión Nacional de Evaluación de la Educación Superior | Mexico's CONAEVA is dedicated to the promotion and support of the development of a national higher education evaluation system. |
| CONEAU | Comisión Nacional de Evaluación y Acreditación Universitaria [known by acronym] http://www.coneau.edu.ar | CONEAU, a decentralized organization working within the Office of the Ministry of Education in Buenos Aires, was created with the aim of contributing to the improvement of university education. |
| EAIE | European Association for International Education http://www.eaie.org | EAIE, a nonprofit, member-led organization, is the acknowledged European leadership center for expertise, networking, and resources in the internationalization of higher education, assisting members with training, conferences, and knowledge acquisition and sharing. |
| ECTS | European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System http://www.ec.europa.eu/education/lifelong-learning-policy/ects_en.htm | ECTS facilitates the transfer of learning experiences between different European institutions, fosters greater student mobility and more flexible routes to gain degrees, and aids curriculum design and quality assurance. |
| EHEA | Europe Higher EducationArea http://www.ehea.info/ | EHEA was created as part of the Bologna Process to ensure more comparable, compatible, and coherent systems of higher education in Europe; its permanent website will play a key role in this process of intense internal and external communication. |
| ENQA | European Network for Quality Assurance in Higher Education http://www.enqa.eu/ | ENQA disseminates information, experiences, and good practices in the field of quality assurance (QA) in higher education to European QA agencies, public authorities, and higher education institutions. |
| Erasmus | European Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students http://ec.europa.eu/education/lifelong-learning-programme/doc80_en.htm | Erasmus is the EU's flagship education and training program, enabling 200,000 students to study and work abroad each year; it funds cooperation between higher education institutions across Europe and supports students, professors, and business staff. |
| EUA | European UniversityAssociation http://www.eua.be/ | EUA represents and supports higher education institutions in 47 countries, providing them with a unique forum to cooperate and keep abreast of the latest trends in higher education and research policies; it plays an essential role in shaping tomorrow's European higher education and research landscape. |
| EURASHE | European Association of Institutions in Higher Education http://www.eurashe.eu | EURASHE includes 800 higher education institutions in 32 of the Bologna signatory countries; it is traditionally an association of national associations. |
| I AU | International Association of Universities http://www.iau-aiu.net | IAU is the UNESCO-based worldwide association of higher education institutions, bringing together institutions and organizations from some 120 countries for reflection and action on common concerns. |
| ICHEM | International Centre for Higher Education Management http://www.bath.ac.uk/ichem/ | ICHEM is a major interdisciplinary research center based at the University of Bath, facilitating academic work in the field of higher education management and policy. |
| IIE | Institute of http://InternationalEducationiie.org | IIE, an independent not-for-profit organization founded in 1919, is among the world's largest and most experienced international education and training organizations, committed to delivering program excellence to a diverse range of participants, sponsors, and donors. |
| IEAA | International Education Association of Australia http://www.ieaa.org.au/ | IEAA is Australia's leading international education professional organization, its mission to enhance the quality and standing of Australian international education by serving the professional needs and interests of its members and by promoting international education within Australia and internationally. |
| IMPI | Indicators for Mapping & Profiling Internalisation http://www.impi-project.eu | The IMPI project focuses on mapping and profiling internationalization of higher education institutions to give them insight into their performance in internationalization and measures for improvement. |
| NAFSA | NAFSA: Association of International Educators http://www.nafsa.org | NAFSA, the world's largest nonprofit professional association dedicated to international education, seeks to advance public policies that promote international education and to support a broad public dialogue about the value and importance of international education. |
| NONIE | Network of Networks on Impact Evaluation http://www.worldbank.org/ieg/nonie/ | NONIE comprises various international committees to form a network drawn from the regional evaluation associations. |
| NUFFIC | Netherlands organization for international cooperation in higher education http://www.nuffic.nl/ | Based in the Netherlands, NUFFIC is an organization dedicated to linking knowledge worldwide. |
| N VAO | Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders http://www.nvao.com | NVAO is an independent organization aiming to ensure the quality of higher education by assessing quality control at higher education institutions and accrediting their programs. |
| RIACES | Red Iberoamericana Acreditación de la Calidad de la Educación Superior http://www.riaces.net | RIACES (in English, the Latin American Network to Accreditation of Quality of Higher Education), is a nonprofit partnership of agencies and organizations for evaluation and accreditation of the quality of higher education. |
| SRHE | Society for Research Into Higher Education http://www.srhe.ac.uk | SRHE is a UK-based international learned society aimed at advancing understanding of higher education, especially through the insights, perspectives and knowledge offered by systematic research and scholarship. |
| WES | World Education Services http://www.wes.org | WES, a not-for-profit organization that evaluates credentials, is the leading source of international education intelligence; it provides an Internet portal to trusted, accurate research and intelligence about foreign academic credentials, institutions, and trends. |
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