Accreditation for less established and less lucrative professions is much easier. The grip tightens over time, within a profession. It's hard to think of any

Accreditation for less established and less lucrative professions is much easier. The grip tightens over time, within a profession. It's hard to think of any really good educational institutions that can't seem to get accredited for political reasons. Three years of on the job training is better education than three years of schooling in practically every field. Plus you get paid rather than have to pay. Yet on the job training does not count as education that allows you to legally be a lawyer, doctor, teacher, parole officer, military officer, etc. The problem with government sanctioned accreditation is not that the specific decisions about which schools meet the requirements get politicized. The problem is that accreditation allows the intuitions who reap the tuition money to define what education itself means.