Tag: quality assurance
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Prestigious Chicago beer brewing school relocates to Montreal amid U.S. regulatory shifts
A Landmark Move in the Beer Education World The oldest beer brewing school in the Americas, based in Chicago, has announced a major strategic shift: relocation to Montreal. Citing evolving regulatory changes in the United States and the need to adapt to a rapidly changing craft beer landscape, the school says its new home in…
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UK Net Zero Insulation Failings: How a Botched Scheme Left Homes Damp and Damaged
Overview: A Scheme Gone Wrong The UK’s ambitious plan to improve home energy efficiency through a national insulation scheme has been marred by serious failings at every level, according to a senior government official and a recent National Audit Office (NAO) report. The revelation is stark: a program intended to hasten progress toward net zero…
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Latvia Overhauls Higher Education Accreditation: Institutions to Be Evaluated as Whole
New Direction in Latvia’s Higher Education Accreditation Latvia is preparing a major pivot in how it evaluates higher education institutions. Rather than focusing primarily on individual programs, the new framework will assess universities and colleges as complete entities. This shift promises a more holistic view of quality, sustainability, and impact, aligning Latvia with broader European…
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Latvia Revamps Higher Education Accreditation: Whole-Institution Evaluation Takes Center Stage
Overview of the Latvian accreditation shift Latvia is introducing a major reform in higher education accreditation by moving from program-by-program assessments to a holistic, whole-institution evaluation. The change, designed to capture the overall quality and capacity of universities, aims to align Latvia with broader European reforms while preserving the integrity of its national education system.…
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A Human-LLM Collaborative Annotation Approach for Screening Precision Oncology Randomized Controlled Trials
Introduction Systematic reviews in precision oncology rely on screening thousands of articles to identify randomized controlled trials that evaluate targeted therapies, biomarkers, and patient outcomes. This manual annotation process is labor-intensive, time-consuming, and susceptible to variability across reviewers. Large language models (LLMs) offer rapid classification and data extraction, but their reliability can be uneven without…