V EUROPEAN REAL ESTATE
SOCIETY EDUCATION SEMINAR
The role of accreditation in real estate
education
Kaarel Sahk, Kalev Sepp and Peeter Torop
Accreditation – the bodies involved in
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The parties interested in of contemporary
development of accreditation are:
 Higher education establishments
 Professional bodies
 Entrepreneurs
 Academically persons
 Students
 Market professionals
 Specialized interest carriers
An interest of educational bodies
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Higher education establishments – why they are
interested in ?
 Ability to compete on the different levels of
higher education (local, regional and
international)
 To follow up the contemporary needs of real
estate market
 To create an interest of future students
 To create an interest of the former students (LLL)
An interest of professional bodis
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Professional bodies – why they are interested in?
 Who are the professional bodies involved in?
 Why they are interested in
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A need of highly educated workforce
A need to connect the professional certification with
higher education requirements
A interest in of the permanent and continuous
development of real estate education
The future development according the enough
connection between different curricula
An interest of entrepreneurs
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Entrepreneurs – why they are interested in?
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A need of highly educated workforce
A need of permanet accounting of the real estate
market condition changes
A need of highly professional market analysis
A need of academically foundation of the
contemporary development valuation in the post crisis'
situation
Ideas according the sustainability
An interest of academically persons
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Academically persons – why they are interested
in?
 Their ability to compete on the higher education
market will be valued and appraised
 Their position in university will be more secured
 They will be more attractive for the real estate
market
 Their image in the eyes of students will grow
 Their international acceeptance will be more
noteable
An interest of students
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Students – why they are interested in?
 They will have an opportunity to study and
practice in the other universities
 There will possible a cross accounting of the
different subjects, studies and curricula
 on the level of the university
 on the level of the state
 on the international level
 Continuous studies are available in all Europe
An interest of market professionals
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Market professionals – why they are interested in?
 The ability for broader competition on the
workforce market
 The exist of higher education curricula
responding to the market requirements
 The ability of the subjects, studies and curricula
to provide the LLL
 The application of the system of the recognizing
of earlier acquired knowledge and education
An interest of spezialized interests
carriers
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Specialized interests carriers – why they are
interested in?
 The need to supply the legal requirements and
procedures with educated workforce
 A legal obligation to connect the local and
European higher education spaces
 The authorities responsibility to trust the society
according the contemporary and future
economics development
 To prevent the future booms, bubbles and
collapses
What must be followed? (1)
The three level accreditation procedure must
be the basic and ongoing
 The outside accrediting bodies and their
representers should be more kept posted up
the subjects, studies and curricula built up
and development
 The local needs should serve as the
fundamentals
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What must be followed? (2)
The different types of modus vivendi
should be accounted – we need a
special approach
 The hopes and notions are also
nationality based – we need a special
approach
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What must be followed? (3)
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The curricula should not be high credit
one if therefore exists a shortage of
Professional bodies acceptance
International connection
 Links between similar and
compeering curricula
The final results
The role of the accreditation is a satisfication
 Ability of higher education institutions to
provide the students beside the academically
diploma with the professional certificate
according the market based minmum
requirements for the certificate of the current
educatinal level
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Thank You for Your attention!
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