(Note that this is a Nineties archival web document).

Struggling campus-based and electronic-delivery institutions in challenged economies do well to affiliate with very affluent and help-motivated institutions elsewhere - if they can make such connection. Vancouver University Worldwide is most definitely help-motivated, but not at all affluent.  The model we know and recommend is "doing well, with less" - and an example is the VanUC.

Responding to the particular circumstances of some current inquiries, we are prepared to accept appropriate entities into candidate-affiliate status. One such is the Institute of Management and Technology, Nepal - being established by professional engineer Bharati Sharma, former Director General of the Nepal Department of Roads. This status grants interim course transfer standing and permits the institution to identify itself as a candidate-affiliate of Vancouver University Worldwide, while working towards implementation of full-affiliate status. We similarly have member colleges in Bangladesh and other countries.

Where an applicant institution is relatively new or precariously established, we bear in mind some often conflicting propositions:
(1) The official authorities of a jurisdiction ought normally to be the ones appropriately to affirm or qualify the status of an entity therein. In some political and cultural circumstances, however, local authorities may be the biggest obstacle to progress in education. Academic freedom emerged only slowly in British universities, battling for generations with Crown and Church.
(2) In every jurisdiction change is underway - today's pariah institution may be tomorrow's proclaimed perfection, and vice versa.
(3) The best criteria with respect to training and education is the evaluation of competencies (outcomes), as determined by objective examination or evaluation of performance - rather than the petty distinctions and snobberies so often associated with education.

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