The Biden administration is moving forward on its ambitious plans to update the regulations governing accreditation and the definition of distance education, among other topics, the U.S. Education ...

Type of business:Allied Schools is a private, nationally accredited distance-learning school. When opened:The school was founded in the early ’90s by current Chairman of the Board Jay Achenbach and ...

Accreditation is the educational world’s version of a seal of authenticity, a mark that proves a school meets recognized ...

Baylor College of Medicine is approved by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) to participate in the National Council for State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements (NC-SARA). As a ...

The Education Department outlined in a series of issue papers released Tuesday how it would update the regulations for accreditation, state authorizing agencies and other policy areas to better ...

The letter said that Berne, a distance-learning institution that promotes itself with a Web site and is based in the Caribbean country of Saint Kitts-Nevis, is not accredited by an agency recognized ...

In the March 23 issue of your paper, you published an article entitled “States Struggle to Regulate Online Colleges That Lack Accreditation.” That article focused on state efforts to regulate ...

A public database of accredited schools and providers is available online for parents who want to confirm registration.

Parents are urged to properly vet the online schools they send their children to, to ensure that these institutions are ...