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Educational accreditation is a quality assurance process under which services and operations of educational institutions or programs are evaluated and verified by an external body to determine whether applicable and recognized standards are met.
Regionally accredited schools were usually academically oriented and most were non-profit. Nationally accredited schools, a large number of which are for-profit, typically offered specific vocational, career, or technical programs. Regionally accredited institutions employed large numbers of full-time faculty, and the faculty set the academic ...
In 1954, the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) was founded as a non-profit, non-governmental accrediting body. In 1997, Teacher Education Accreditation Council (TEAC) was founded and dedicated to improving academic degree programs for professional educators, defined as those who teach and lead in schools pre-K through grade 12.
In the United States, educational accreditation has long been established as a peer review process coordinated by accreditation commissions and member institutions. [citation needed] With the creation of the U.S. Department of Education and under the terms of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended, the U.S. Secretary of Education is required by law to publish a list of nationally ...
Cognia was formed as AdvancED in 2006 by the consolidation of the pre-college divisions of two of the U.S. regional accreditation organizations: the Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, and the Council on Accreditation and School Improvement of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
In Albania, the accreditation authority/national recognition body is the ASCAL – Quality Assurance Agency in Higher Education (Albanian: Agjencia e Sigurimit të Cilësisë në Arsimin e Lartë) which was established by Order of CM no. 171, dated 27.09.2010, "On approval of structure of Public Accreditation Agency on Higher Education".
The Distance Education Accrediting Commission [1] is an accrediting agency recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) and the U.S. Department of Education (USDE). [2] [3] The agency accredits institutions from the primary level through universities. [4]
The United States Department of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation recognize the commission as an institutional accreditor. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] HLC grew out of the higher education division of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (NCA), which dissolved in 2014.