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Introduction
Incorporation:
West
Coast University (WCU) is incorporated in the Republic of
Panama, Central America, as a Global University to offer
academic and professional courses in Higher Education
through accredited Distance Education Methodologies and also
through affiliated Study Colleges/Centres (internationally)
to confer Diplomas, Advanced diplomas, Associate, Bachelor,
Master and Doctoral degrees to students/candidates who
successfully qualify for these awards.
Approval & Decree:
West Coast University is duly approved under the decree
No.06/72 of the AEI Senate, as an official department of the
World Information Distributed University (WIDU). WIDU is an
entity included in the L'Academie Europeenne
d'lnformatisation (A.E.I),
established in Belgium under the decree of the Belgian King
Albert II.
http://www.bridgeworld.org/aei_doc.htm
Executive Licence: West Coast
University is an approved department of WIDU. WIDU is
licensed by Moscow (Russian Federation) to train and award
scientific degrees of Doctor of Philosophy and Grand Doctor
of Philosophy and approved to act as a world base of
educational programs and to facilitate the development of
expertise Vis educational programs.
www.bridgeworld.org
Full Accreditation: West Coast University awards
Higher Secondary Certificates, Diploma, Advanced Diploma,
Post Graduate Diploma, Bachelor,Master and Doctoral degrees.
West Coast University is full Accredited by Appointment to
the Hon. President of the Grand Council of the SBC Antico
Principato di Seborga - Europe - and certified by the SBC
Education, Culture and Faith.
http://www.principato-di-seborga.com
Accreditation:
The following accrediting bodies have accredited West Coast
University:
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International Association of Universities and Higher Schools
((IAUHS)
http://www.bridgeworld.org/book.htm#n8
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International Education Ministry Accreditations Association (IEMAA)-USA
http://www.interfaithedu.org
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International Commission of Post-secondary Education (ICOPSE)-Ireland.
http://www.icopse.org
ü
International Accreditation & Recognition Council (IARC)-
Queensland, Australia.
http://www.iarcedu.com
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Approved by Institute of Global Education, which has
a Special Consultative Status with ESOSOC, United Nations
http://www.ecopsych.com/ige.html
Professional Memberships: West
Coast University or its President is a member of the
following professional associations:
q
Global System of Education (GES)
q
International Academy of Science (IAS)
q
European Association for International Education (EAIE)
q
Association of International educators (NAFSA)
q
American Association for Higher Education (AAHE)
q
Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications,
founded by the Western Interstate Commission for Higher
Education (WICHE)
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Association for the Advancement of Computing in
Education (AACE)
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Virginia Society for Technology in Education
Equivalency of WCU-Degrees.
The degrees of West Coast
University have been evaluated as equivalent to US
regionally accredited degrees and degrees that are
accredited in United Kingdom by the Academic Credential
Assessment Corporation (ACAC)
http://www.acacorp.org
WCU's
Concept of a "Global University"
By:
Professor S. Lloyd, President, West Coast University
Global
university is a latest concept to this world. We are
used to seeing a large complex of huge buildings in some
part of a major city with a large sign over the threshold is
called “ UNIVERSITY”. We find that those buildings have
classrooms, laboratories, and libraries housed in them.
We see many students along with few educationally matured
people sitting around as teachers, usually the teachers
talking and students listening or writing, or doing things
according to instructions they receive from the teachers.
We recognize this system as a “University Campus”, where
the select people of any particular nation are being trained
for their leading roles in the development of that
particular nation.
Now,
just imagine that we spread this campus in such a manner
that instead of thirty rooms in the “One Building” of
any particular university campus, we have 5 rooms in
Singapore, 5 rooms in Bangkok, 5 rooms in Hong Kong, 7 rooms
in Pakistan and 8 rooms in Turkey. The relationships
and the system are the same in the scattered Global Campus
as in any particular university campus of any nation.
Instead of educating a few select in a given place, now a
much larger group from all over the world are receiving the
same education and are being trained for their leading roles
nationally and internationally. This is the sum total of the
GLOBAL UNIVERSITY. Also word ‘University’ relates to
word ‘Universe’ which actually means global.
With
the invention of Television, Computers and Internet, whole
world have squeezed to be a global village, consequently
squeezing the role of formal university campus to small
computer monitor where by a blink of eye students get more
information and knowledge than provided by any teacher in
many months at a formal university campus.
Global universities also provide uniform curricula to
the students of all nations to enable them to compete and
think globally than nationally or just regionally. Global
universities impart education through distance learning
using latest methodologies & technologies and also
through worldwide affiliated colleges.
WCU
Philosophy
Philosophy
of WCU for the need of international education is
quite simple. We believe that we need to look at the plan
for learning that God has put within every human being. When
this need is not recognized and accepted, it causes tension
within young people and other learners. Also we believe that
every human being has inherited right to learn. We also
believe that all human beings are equal and students of
developing countries inherit the same right to study the
similar courses that the students of developed countries are
able to study. Not all interested students of developing
countries can afford to come to study with the institutions
of developed countries. As such we feel the need to help
such students by delivering them internationally accepted
curriculum and courses through flexible delivery methods in
their own homelands that they feel satisfied to achieve
their personal and professional goals.
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