International accreditation of architecture programs promoting competitiveness in professional practice

Professional Accreditation of Information Systems Programs

Although accreditation is over 100 years old, the accreditation of information systems programs is a new experience for information systems professionals. This paper describes the important aspects of accreditation as a process of excellence and shows how information systems faculty members can now employ that process to improve the overall quality of their programs for the benefit of their stu...

Promoting Competitiveness in Practice An Assessment of Cluster-Based Approaches

Pursuing International Competitiveness in Iranian Wheat Policy

After the war with Iraq which ended in 1988, Iran implemented several agricultural support policies based on Five-Year National Development Plans. The main objective of these plans in the agriculture sector was to make the agricultural economy more market-oriented and to encourage sustainable agriculture. This paper investigates the extent to which Iran's government has been able to achieve thi...

International Professional Practice Partnership (IP3) - Overview

The IFIP International Professional Practice Partnership is embarked on the ambitious task of creating an international profession to provide the key leadership in all parts of the global IT industry – both supplier and user sides. Globally, society is utterly dependent on the IT industry for maintaining and enhancing the quality of life in the developed world and the developing world is lookin...

The IFIP International Professional Practice Partnership - Transforming and Informing IT Professional Practice

A global programme led by IFIP (The International Federation for Information Processing) to promote professionalism in IT, define international standards and create a global infrastructure that will encourage and support the development of both practitioners and employer organisations and give recognition to those who meet and maintain the required standards for knowledge, experience, competenc...