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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/Centers (internationally) to
confer Diplomas, Advanced diplomas, Associate, Bachelor,
Master and Doctoral degrees to students/candidates who
successfully qualify for these awards.
Degree Granting
License, Charter & International Accreditation:
West Coast
University (WCU) Panama has been granted a Parliamentary
Decree that bears full validity and recognition with all
member governments and nations under international law
statutes recognized by the Vienna Convention of
April 18th, 1961,
(1963). WCU has been granted Parliamentary Charter conveying
full authority to WCU to grant Certificates, Diplomas,
Higher Diplomas, Associate Degrees, Bachelor Degrees, Master
and Doctorate degrees as an Autonomous Institution,
Internationally Accredited with the International Parliament
for Safety and Peace. The International Parliament for
Safety and Peace was founded in 1975. The work of the
delegates and ministers of ISPSP toward peace and the
enforcement of the respect of life and human rights includes
rendering help and support to all people of the world,
observing the right of safety and peace in all aspects;
moral, political, diplomatic, cultural, religious, economic
and social. After looking for concurrence from all nations
in the world, through their representative governments, the
Parliament counts with 400 senators, 800 deputies,
ambassadors and ministers, who contribute voluntarily to the
cause of peace. The Department of Foreign Affairs is based
in Palermo, Italy.
Provisional Membership:
West
Coast University (WCU) is now a Provisional Member of the
Global University Network for Innovation (GUNI),
which is
composed
of Higher Education UNESCO Chairs and other institutions
that are highly committed to innovation in higher education.
It was set up by UNESCO, the United Nations University (UNU)
and the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), which hosts
the secretariat. GUNI works for the application of the
decisions taken at the World Conference on Higher Education
(WCHE, Paris 1998). Its mission is to contribute to the
reinforcement of higher education worldwide, by putting into
practice the decisions adopted at the WCHE, specifically
improving quality in teaching, promoting innovation in
higher education and strengthening the social commitment of
universities.
University Consortium
Membership:
West Coast University is a member with Consultant Status of
the Universidad Consortium, which represents bona fide,
recognized and accredited higher education entities,
licensed by the Ministries of Education-Government of their
respective countries, through the office of the Adult
Council on Higher Education Private Universities and through
the Office of the National Council of Universities, these
universities are listed in the UNESCO World Handbook of
Universities. Consortium has legal domicile in the City of
San Jose, Costa Rica and Mexico City, Mexico.
Validation of the Degree
Programs of the West Coast University:
Universidad
San Juan de la Cruz formally known as University San Juan de
la Cruz is a Recognized and Accredited University by the
Ministry of Education, Government of the Republic of Costa
Rica, Central America through The National Council on Higher
Education Private Universities (CONESUP).San Juan de la Cruz
University is listed in UNESCO under International
Association of Universities under Costa Rica and also
enlisted in International Handbook of Universities an
Official/Directory of International Accredited Universities
Published by United Nations. San Juan de la Cruz
University has duly evaluated and recognized West Coast
University (WCU) Panama as an educational institution of
equivalent quality & integrity and consequently has signed
credit transfer agreement with WCU as such credits earned at
West Coast university shall be 100% eligible for transfer to
San Juan de la Cruz University for the grant of respective
diploma/degree by the San Juan de la Cruz University to the
graduates of West Coast University (WCU) Panama as per
mutually agreed terms and conditions of the agreement signed
by both Institutions.
Validation of the Degree
Programs of the West Coast University:
ICS has been approved by
Kursk State
Technical University through the Director of Marketing for
Asian Region to provide online e-learning programs to all
qualified and motivated adult learners to attain prestigious
Russian academic degrees. Kursk State Technical University
is a government owned university of the
Russian Federation.
The University is funded by the State and governed in
accordance with the State Educational Standard of Russian
Federation. ICS has confirmed that credits earned from WCU
will be validated by ICS for possible full transfer of
credits toward the degrees of the
Kursk State Technical
University subject to the final completion of a project
paper demonstrating high level of academic knowledge.
Bilateral
Cooperation with the University Mediterranean-Montenegro:
West Coast University (WCU) has signed bilateral agreement
with the University Mediterranean. The University
Mediterranean enjoys bilateral contacts with other
universities based on mutually coordinated and signed
bilateral agreements which support the following general
forms of co-operation: teacher and student exchange, common
research projects, joint postgraduate courses, common
organization and participation in the seminars and other
scientific and professional gatherings, running training
programs, exchange of scientific and professional
publications, other forms of university co-operation of
mutual interest.
Bilateral Cooperation with the
Carinthia University of Applied Sciences- Austria:
West Coast University (WCU) has singed bilateral
agreement with the Carinthia University of Applied Sciences
to accept the credits of each others in degree programs in
the disciplines of Applied Sciences, Engineering &
Technology and Architecture and agreement of students study
exchange programs. Carinthia University of Applied Sciences
is one of the best universities of Engineering and Applied
Sciences in the world.
Professional Memberships:
West Coast University or its President is a member of the
following professional associations:
q
European
Association for International Education (EAIE)
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Association
of International educators (NAFSA)
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American
Association for Higher Education (AAHE)
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Global
System of Education (GES)
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International Academy of Science (IAS)
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
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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