Keeping up job placement numbers was doubly important for Corinthian – not only did it help attract new students, it also ensured accreditation and thus the company's continued access to federal funds, which composed more than 80% of the company's revenue.
To ensure this, accreditation criteria for engineering programs in Canada require the evaluation of multiple attributes, the first of which is "a knowledge base for engineering".
The results imply that policymakers and regulators should ensure that accreditation and other regulatory measures mutually reinforce, rather than overlap, duplicate or conflict with each other.
To ensure continued accreditation as a training hospital, hospitals have to provide evidence of the quality of their clinical teaching [ 29, 30].
In the United States and Canada, the appropriateness of graduate programs in library and information science in preparing students to become professional librarians is still ensured by accreditation by the ALA.
1 The problems associated with measuring accreditation benefits are well documented. 2 3 A clear understanding of the inputs, in terms of costs and resource use, and outcomes, in terms of improved patient safety and quality, is essential in ensuring that accreditation programmes are achieving their aims of improving patient safety and healthcare quality.
Such manoeuvres ensured, for example, that only 30 of the 255 Democratic members of Congress managed to secure accreditation to the 1972 convention in Miami.
It concludes that it is necessary both, international accreditation to ensure the effectiveness of the program (achievement of learning outcomes) and the national accreditation through which it could ensure local relevancy of programs, for which we are giving some indicators.
Furthermore, since overall quality health care and patient safety standards were low in rural and urban accredited health facilities, the NHIA accreditation unit in collaboration with the GHS quality assurance unit should intensify regular post accreditation monitoring to ensure that facilities adhere to quality care standards after accreditation.
There is the need to build the capacity of the private sector to manage resources and promote accreditation to ensure basic standards are met.
