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North America's oldest aggregate-learning
('external') degrees process.
Vancouver University Worldwide is
usually better understood in England than in North America. It is the world’s
first global consortium university, consisting of equal member colleges rather
than the usual North American large exclusive-use campus - with maybe some
branches or franchise operations elsewhere.
Th The subject matters
(disciplines) of Vancouver University Worldwide degrees generally reflect
the programs of the member colleges. For example, Canadian Tourism College
(CTC) offers - along with its other programs - an Adventure Tourism diploma.
The university grants holders of those diplomas full academic credit
standing in the BREL (backcountry recreation and environmental leadership)
context, described further below. The actual level of degree secured by a
CTC Adventure Tourism or other graduate depends upon what other prior
learning he or she has completed. CTC’s Adventure Tourism diploma can thus
aggregate towards an associate, bachelor, or even a master degree.
In British Columbia the
Vancouver University Worldwide member colleges include four SGVE schools
(see next paragraph), the Canada Institute of Business and Technology,
Canadian Tourism College, BCMontessori Teachers College, and the Whistler
Institute - which is also legally Whistler College, but not yet sufficiently
endowed to comfortably use its intended context name. Some member colleges
are non-profit, as likewise is registered charity Vancouver University
Colleges Society (Canada and US) - while others are proprietary. Donations
are actively sought for non-profit operations. Overseas the member
colleges include CPPD/IFPAS (servicing the life underwriters profession of
Singapore and SE Asia), Innotech (the training college of the world and
Singapore Association of Small and Medium Enterprises), IMT (an embryonic
engineering and management college in Nepal), and other colleges on five
continents - including the Saxoncourt and Shane Glob The geographical diversity
and practical orientations of the member colleges fit well with Vancouver
University Worldwide’s degrees spectrum, including its various MBA options.
The MBAs all include standard core courses along with modules addressing the
needs of a particular economic sector or region, as illustrated by the
differing MBA emphases of CPPD/IFPAS and Innotech. The core courses tend to
use common texts and materials like the Wiley Portable MBA series and
Harvard Business Review Series - all available in paperback. It also happens
that Boston MIT’s course offerings have fairly considerable curriculum
influence within Vancouver University Worldwide - as the first other
university to collaborate with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in
its Open-Courseware outreach, described and linked from the Learning
Resources section of Vancouver University Worldwide’s homepage.
Adventure Tourism and Environmental Concern The BREL option mentioned
above and now further detailed is another interesting example of how
Vancouver University Worldwide promotes particular disciplines. In Five years later, happy
learners who have completed field programs in backcountry recreation
leadership and related environmental studies, continue to receive full
credit transfer for their field-work and formal courses into the
appropriate-level associate, bachelor or master degree awarded by Vancouver
University Worldwide. The beneficiaries of this
option over the years have secured transfer standing for learning at various
globally-located programs - Canadato Zambia - including regionally the
American Alpine Institute (WA); Canadian Tourism College - which is a full
equal-member college of Vancouver University Worldwide; the North Cascades
Institute (WA); the Whistler Institute; and various BC and other Pacific
Coast community college and university programs in adventure tourism and
related disciplines.
Vancouver University Worldwide’s general
aggregate-learning degree option process is detailed in aggregate-learning .
BREL is formally designated and summarized at
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