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Accredit

To give official authorization or status. To recognize as having sufficient academic standards to qualify graduates for higher education or for professional practice. In International Law: (1) To acknowledge; to receive as an envoy and give that person credit and rank accordingly. (2) To send with credentials as an envoy. This latter use is now the accepted one.

accredit

verb accept, affirm, approve, authenticate, authorize, certify, confirm, endorse, ratify, sanction, vouch for
Associated concepts: accredited law school, accredited reppesentative

TO ACCREDIT, international law. The act by which a diplomatic agent is acknowledged by the government near which he is sent. This at once makes his public character known, and becomes his protection.

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First accredited hospital in the Philippines (2003)

St. Luke's global accreditations, recognitions, and affiliations

Most of the nation's traditional institutions are accredited by one of seven regional agencies.

Accredit risk: lawsuit highlights questions about accreditation status of online, for-profit institutions

According to school officials, the college has applied to a national accrediting association and expects to be accredited a month or two before July 31, thus not missing a beat of accredited education for its students.

AUC seeking new accreditation

Whether a school is accredited or not, says the Hawai'i Association of Independent Schools' executive director, Robert Witt, is an important factor to consider in your private-school search.

Does accreditation matter? It's not only your child who gets evaluated in the private-school system. Schools themselves get put through the wringer on a regular basis

These students have invested plenty of time and money in college credits that they cannot use at an accredited institution.

The unsuspecting, the uninformed and the unaccredited. (point of view)

Marianna Kern Grachek, MSN, RN, NHA, Executive Director, Long Term Care and Assisted Living Programs: Some of our accrediation customers raised the question in 1997 as to whether we would accredit assisted living.

ACCREDITATION COMES TO ASSISTED LIVINY

"Will accreditation help me get a better job than someone who is not accredited?"

Why should I pursue accreditation?

Secretary of Education to accredit programs in the computing field.

Accredited programs in computing

One is the position of the Zerox Corporation and other national employers who deal with HMO networks that, in the future, they will only deal with accredited HMOs.

What's ahead on quality: the managed care perspective

The first accredited specialty, the Personal Financial Specialist (formerly Accredited Personal Financial Specialist, or APFS), began in 1987 and now accounts for 620 accredited specialists.

Accrediting a tax specialty: is now the time?

It often works in connection with the HAIS to accredit schools.

Accreditation: does it matter?

Accredits preschool-third grade programs, including childcare and after-school programs.