QUALITY ASSURANCE & TEACHER TRAINING Laureate Education Laureate are the world’s largest private university chain. They have nearly 70 institutions in 25 countries across the world. SUMMARY Between 2009 and 2018 Bell partnered with Laureate to provide quality Bell has also provided teacher training and academic management assurance services and teacher training to Laureate’s English language training for Laureate, for example: departments. During the peak years of this project Bell employed 2 • Providing academic management training at Laureate’s annual full-time QAD assessors based on Mexico to deal with the Latin America Academic Director meetings. region. • Sending Bell experts Jim Scrivener and Silvana Richardson to provide training at the UVM annual academic manager’s meetings. Bell’s role was to visit the English departments in selected campuses • Giving CLIL training at Laureate Universities in Brazil and assess the academic management and learning and teaching • Workshops on reflective teaching and active learning at ULatina taking place at these centres using Bell’s specially developed Quality Costa Rica Assurance framework. Following each visit a detailed report was produced containing rec- ommendations for further development. Bell also delivered bespoke training for teachers and managers across the Laureate network. Bell have conducted assessment visits at Laureate institutions in the following countries: Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Mexico, Peru, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Thailand and Malaysia. For example: Universidade Europeia (Portugal) Universidad Europea de Madrid (Spain) Bilgi University (Turkey) Universidad del Valle de Mexico Université Internationale de (Saudi Arabia) Casablanca (Morocco) Universidad de Las • Al Karj Female College of Americas [UDLA] (Ecuador) Excellence Stamford University (Thailand) UNITEC/CEUTEC (Honduras) • HIPWT INTI (Malaysia) (Costa Rica) Universidade Anhembi • Universidad Americana Morumbi (Brazil) • Universidad Latina (Chile) (Peru) • Universidad Andres Bello • Universidad Peruana de [UNAB] Ciencias Aplicades [UPC] • CIBERTEC.