November 4, 2005

Accreditation of Foreign Institutions

To the Editor:

"America's widely respected accreditation system, based on peer review and carried out by nonprofit, private organizations," is not, as Burton Bollag claims, "unique" ("American Accreditors Go Abroad," The Chronicle, September 23). A number of British universities, all private and nonprofit, have for the better part of two decades been accrediting institutions overseas. ...

But the dogmatic opposition of some governments (not only in developing countries) to these

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