October 15, 2004

Chile Moves Toward Voluntary Accreditation

By MIKE CEASER

Concerned about educational quality in the country's fast-growing, largely unregulated private-higher-education sector, Chile is developing a voluntary accreditation system for both its public and its private universities.

Accreditation is important to ensure the quality of Chilean college graduates as the nation signs free-trade agreements with highly developed nations, the Ministry of Education says.

The number of private colleges in the country has grown rapidly in recent

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