Academic standards

Academic standards are the benchmarks of quality and excellence in education such as the rigour of curricula and the difficulty of examinations.

[8] According to a 2009 report by UNESCO, changes in the university structure in the late 20th and early 21st century have led to increasing access to or "massification" of higher education which has, in turn, resulted in both a diversification of the student population but also a general decrease in academic standards globally.

During 2012–13, this was replaced by the Quality Code for Higher Education, which included points about the availability of information about the learning experience to emphasize the role of the student as a paying customer of the institutions.

[12] In the US, regulation is at state level by bodies such as the Standards and Assessment Division of the Arizona Department of Education.

[13] The Common Core is a group of academic standards which focus on two main subjects: mathematics and English language arts (ELA).