ENEB Master Thread

[eLearner]

The revision fee is weird, but basing credits on scores for non-traditional programs isn't unheard of. Some schools do it with AP and CLEP exams. I guess it depends on whether there's a competency or time approach. A time approach looks at whether you earned a satisfactory grade within a course that covered a certain number of hours that can be converted to semester or quarter credits. A competency approach says that, if you earned a 70%, then you only mastered 70% of the material.

Basing credits on scores is fine (and in this case we're talking about reduction of course) when the approach is as simple and rational as a proper conversion that shows the foreign score would be a failing score domestically. But I have doubt that's the way it's being done across the board.

Something that I've noticed is that ENEB's programs are worth 60 ECTS regardless of the number of courses. Let's say that 60 ECTS is roughly equivalent to 30 semester hours. That means that each course in an 11-course program is worth about 2.73 credits. In their 13-course programs, each course is worth approximately 2.31 credits.

 
That would work out fine except one evaluation gave a person less than 30 credits on an 11-course program. That's where they jump the shark. If they really feel they need to do this, then just deem all 60 ECTS programs as equal to 30 credits and call it a day. Trying to concoct these shaving schemes don't help anyone. It doesn't help the evaluator because it makes them look like they're doing some homecooking. It doesn't help the student because that puts them in a state of confusion and uncertainty of what to do with these reduced credits. And it doesn't help the receiving schools because they now have to make an extra judgement on what to do with the credits and that can really be a problem if they're submitted as being below 30 or the school doesn't have a policy in place for it. We know some schools ignore the credit reduction and simply award each credited class on the transcript as 3 credits, but not all schools do that. So then, the student gets screwed.