In his position at the U.S.O.C., Roush dealt extensively with accrediting and managing athlete entourages, though the U.S.O.C.'s ability to control credentials comes mainly at the Olympics.
The inquiry will review the relationship between the department, the NGO providers, and the Office of the Children's Guardian, the organisation tasked with accrediting providers and carers through the working with children check.
The V.A. says it will review all for-profit schools in the 2012 fiscal year to make sure they comply with accrediting standards, and conduct annual reviews of all institutions that have more than 300 G.I. Bill students.
Sceptics point to the high dropout rates and the problems with accrediting such online courses, but it creates a level of accessibility that would have been impossible only a few years ago.
We have to demonstrate that the students get a good education both internally (quality review) and externally (by working with accrediting bodies such as the Quality Assurance Agency, the Institute for Biomedical Sciences, etc).
And I think that for our part we need to communicate more often and better with accrediting agencies and with states.
