You missed the TRACS (Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools) which is most certainly kosher

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Lawrie Miller
bain4weeks.com

Hi Lawrie -

I think TRACS was covered -- A few posts back (Page 1) PatsFan specifically mentioned the CHEA-recognized category of Faith-based Accreditors. TRACS is on the CHEA website under this heading.

Small pernickety point...don't mind me...slow day! Feel free to tell me to use my time more productively - as you have obviously done!

Johann

Hey, I never get tired of general knowlage
Thanks for the info.

To sum all of this Karat talk up, you would say that an online college degree is less valuable to a University Degree right? The Ivy schools would be 24 karat, and then State Universities would then make their way down the list depending on the quality of the program you went through, each University having it's own strong and weak colleges.

Cathy

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I think it is good. It is agoog answer of my questions. On the base of this formula, IUFS is fully accredited but just in Russia because It is Registered with Russian Ministery of Education, Governament of Russia , State Commetie for Higher Education and Science and Ministry of foreign affairs Russia also attest its degrees. anyone agree with my views.

Hi -

IUFS has been denounced as a mill in all the fora. International University of Fundamental Studies is exactly the type of school Dr. George Gollin calls a "goatbag." In case you don't know him, he's a tenured physics professor (University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign) and a fierce and justly famed enemy of bogus schools!

In a recent posting on another forum he referred to the administrators of this umm.."school," IUFS, as "Duckmen." (If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck etc.)

i'm told the only form of approval it has from the Russian government amounts to little more than a Business Licence! I have read more than one authority - and believe - that it does NOT have the standard Russian form of accreditation for nationally approved universities, despite any pretense on its web page. WIDU, from which IUFS claims some kind of accreditation, its "Grand Ph. D's" and their holders appear to be also regarded as fraudulent in the legit academic community. You can find many many postings - overwhelmingly deprecatory.

Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Jayasekara, the President, allegedly has SIX "unverifiable" doctorates from "schools" of about the same calibre as IUFS! i've read a very unflattering bio of him on the net starting with his founding of a bogus "school of rocket science" in his South Asian village. I've also read some unsavoury accounts of his alleged implication in the death of a Buddhist holy man - said to have occurred by negligence while in Jayasekara's care. Maybe false, maybe not - I have no idea - but definitely not the sort of story that's good P.R. for his um..."school."

Funny - the only complimentary things I've heard about IUFS, WIDU or Jayasekara have been on their own web-pages! Readers can judge for themselves - just see the pages, then Google WIDU, IUFS and Jayasekara.

http://users.skynet.be/cii.asbl/seminar/html/widu.html
http://www.iufs.edu/ (.edu domain grandfathered long ago)

Want a GOOD Russian school instead? Try www.fenu.ru !

Johann

RA = 14K
RA+PA = 24K

Professional Accreditation on top of RA by APA, AMA, ABET, ABA etc.
Professional Accreditation of programs in the RA universities is the highest level of accreditation in USA.

From their website:

"The World Information Distributed University is an entity included in the European Informatization Academy (L'Academie Europeenne d'lnformatisation - A.E.I.) set up in Belgium by order of the Belgian King Albert II."

For the uninitiated. In a kingdom all power flows from the monarch. A clerk administering the Society Act would do so in the name of the king. Garbage would also be collected in the name of the king.

An interesting parallel used to take place in the US. I have a 100 year old document transferring land from the federal government. It is actually signed "Theodore Roosevelt" but was done so by a clerk in the land office.

Hi Dennis -

Your observation is interesting, about all power flowing from the Monarch.

In today's U.K. (Hey, it's even still called a kingdom) her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II certainly has power - (criminals still reside in "Her Majesty's Prisons," etc.) but her Majesty's Government calls the major day-to-day decisions and legislative changes. Queen Elizabeth herself, I'm sure, is asked for her assent by signature, where the laws of the land require such - which I believe is not with every change in the rules, by a long shot!

It seems a bit different nowadays. Yes, in the Queen's predecessors' days, a Monarch's power was 'way nearer absolute than it is now. Those were the days, I think, (ending centuries ago with the rise of Parliament) when "all power" could be fairly ascribed to the Monarch...at least in Britain.

By the way, I've seen the WIDU website too --and I'm sure you've noticed some of the better-known members of the "forum press" have not expressed very kind thoughts of WIDU, as a source of accreditation.

Picky points -- slow day. No offense intended!

Johann