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Tuesday, April 22, 2008

National University accreditation or private?

State accreditation means international students are forced to study at closed universities.
History reveals the following:-

"...Once cathedral schools moved beyond just training the clergy, they found themselves needing to hold on to respected teachers in order to attract fee-paying students. The result of this was a shift in power from the cathedral chapter to the scholars themselves. By the late eleventh century they were using new developments in civil and canon law to form a universitas or corporation (the actual term for an academic university was studium generale) in a similar manner to the craft guilds also appearing at this time .

The vital concept was that a corporation had a distinct legal personality separate from its members that allowed them to show a single face to the outside world while independently being able to govern the workings of the corporation from within.
A city or state was willing to make considerable allowances for a whole group of scholars so the university was granted legal immunities and privileges, which could later be recognised internationally by the Pope who, for example, bestowed his benediction on Oxford in 1254 . Furthermore, the masters needed students and they could form a universitas of their own. Thus Bologna, usually recognised as the first university, was a corporation of students (universitas scholarium), while Oxford and Paris were corporations of masters (universitas magistrorum). No foundation documents exist for these earliest institutions but later in the Middle Ages universities were specifically set up by localities or rulers with charters that give a good idea of what was considered the usual form. Of the earliest universities, Bologna began as a secular law school for the study of the newly rediscovered Corpus Juris Civilis of Justinian while Oxford and Paris both grew out of a loose association of clerical private teachers . Later disputes led to an exodus from Bologna of students and masters to Padua among other places, while Cambridge was founded after a similar migration from Oxford.
By the fourteenth century, the university had become the centrepiece of European intellectual life..."

New World Mission Dunamis International University became the accreditation body in partnership with Dunamis Degree Accreditation Association of every private university on earth.
Most state universities are eager to find International Accreditation from NWMDIU and DDAA.
The problem they face is the fact that they (state universities) have been established as national institutions and thus have no international status.. Some changed their names to find favor with NWMDIU and DDAA.
I would like to know if we should consider their applications as most of these state universities refused to acknowledge degrees from outside their national borders for ages already?
Private international universities deserve accreditation as they are open universities..

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