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Accreditation/Inspection Agencies Listed (and Vetted) by the GSGI
All schools in this book with full reviews are accredited or inspected by one or more of these agencies.
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"Inspected by Ofsted": True or False (mostly false!)
British school inspections and accreditations: if schools outside the UK say they're inspected by Ofsted, can you believe them? (Mostly not- or at least, not yet!) How do you know, and if not Ofsted, which agencies are legitimate? And will you be allowed to see the real report?
Accreditation of American Schools (in the US and Abroad)
Accreditation agencies: real or fake? How do you 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.
International Baccalaureate (IB) Schools
How far does the IBO oversight go, and what does a school have to do to qualify as one?