INTERNATIONAL ACCREDITATION
& RECOGNITION COUNCIL

IARC was formed in 1999

It provides an opportunity for post secondary educational bodies to demonstrate  credibility.

It does not guarantee any sort of acceptance by any particular country or government; but it does provide a solid endorsement from all member institutions, of other member institutions.

Historically less than 40% of recognition applications have ever been successful. We believe this in itself is an indication of the success of IARC in differentiating quality education.

It is different to other accreditation and recognition systems in a number of ways:

1. Recognised institutions are audited to ensure minimum standards are met with equal importance given to both procedures, and quality of the education being provided (In our experience some systems have become are weighted more toward procedures).

2. Standards are set by:

• education professionals
• member institutions
• people from many different countries.

Other accreditation and recognition systems (commonly) set standards in just one country, and by governments or professional industry bodies.

3. This organization is kept lean.

Bureaucracy and unnecessary costs are avoided wherever possible
Costs to recognized member organizations are kept to a minimum (while maintaining standards)
This makes IARC recognition more accessible to institutions from poorer countries than other costly systems run within wealthy countries
This reduces costs imposed on colleges, so a much lower % of the colleges budget needs to go toward recognition.
This contrasts with some systems that have been claimed to drain 25% or more of a college's budget (and students fees) into dealing with recognition bureaucracy.