à la DETC?

Inside Higher Ed also reports on an apparently bogus accreditation organization for distance education programs:

Officials at the Distance Education and Training Council, a Washington-based accrediting body, woke up Monday morning to find that the agency had acquired an unwelcome twin overseas.

The body was tipped off to the existence of a Web site for an organization with the same name, with a British Web domain and a Cyprus address, that claims to be “the leading global membership organization for the open and distance education community.”

The Washington-based council believes the organization to be an accreditation mill -- a phony accrediting body designed to lend a veneer of legitimacy to bogus institutions.

And now, for the rest of the story...