Accreditation
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Accreditation agencies/inspection organisations: which ones are real?
Agencies listed in this section are the official accreditation or inspection agencies that are run by the government, or have been given authority to accredit or inspect the schools in that country. These are not just membership organizations, but objective, arms-length and unavoidable for legitimate schools.
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Accreditation of American schools (in the US and abroad)
How to separate the sheep from the goats, the authorised from the bogus. Beware the alphabet soup of lookalike initials and reversed titles: all accrediting agencies are not equal.
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Inspected by Ofsted: True or False?
An inspection or accreditation, painstakingly conducted by a recognised, authorised arms-length agency, is probably the single most important, in fact indispensible and crucial benchmark, when searching for schools abroad.
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International Baccalaureate (IB) Schools
The first place to start may just be the IBO website: International Baccalaureate Organization . (By contrast to the US Education turtle of a website, this one goes like a jet and has everything you're looking for right at your fingertips. We know this is a schools guide, but we couldn't help noticing...)