<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Hi all, in accordance with my last post explaining away some of the concerns I would like to quote the official legal text on ed.gov (the USA's federal regulation over accredidation agencies)</div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Cited from: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color:
transparent; font-style: normal;"><img src="http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/images/image_title2.gif" alt="What is the role of the accrediting agency?" title="What is the role of the accrediting agency?">
The goal of accreditation is to ensure that education provided by
institutions of higher education meets acceptable levels of quality.
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Accrediting agencies, which are private educational associations of
regional or national scope, develop evaluation criteria and conduct peer
evaluations to assess whether or not those criteria are met</span>.
Institutions and/or programs that request an agency's evaluation and
that meet an agency's criteria are then "accredited" by that agency. <br><br>
For more information on accreditation in the United States, please visit: <a href="http://www.ed.gov/admins/finaid/accred/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.ed.gov/admins/finaid/accred/index.html</a>. </div></div></body></html>