The Department of Education De-Accredits an Accreditor
The final year of the U.S. Department of Education in the Obama administration is noteworthy for all its carnage. In September, the large ITT Tech chain of schools, which had…
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Will We, at Last, Do Something About Accreditation?
Accreditation is supposed to act as a quality guarantee for colleges and universities, but it works very poorly. Students can and regularly do graduate from accredited schools without having learned…
Can Money Contaminate a College?
You would think so, given the way a Brooklyn College dean avoided a multimillion-dollar grant opportunity.
Accreditation–or Real Quality Assurance?
Higher education still relies on a weak accreditation system, but something better will replace it.
What’s the Point of Accreditation?
The venerable organization that accredits business schools doesn’t seem to put a stamp of quality on its beneficiaries.
Disrupting College? Lessons from iTunes
So far, online education has failed to transform higher education. An entrepreneur explains why.
Accreditation has no clothes
Accreditation is one of those “the emperor is wearing no clothes” phenomena overloading our educational system.