Feature Articles > Accreditation Agencies/Inspection Organisations: Which Ones Are Real?
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All schools in this book with full reviews are accredited or inspected by one or more of these agencies.
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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 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.
How far does the IBO oversight go, and what does a school have to do to qualify as one?