Accreditation
- Mexico’s Ministry of Education, the Secretariat of Public Education (SEP), establishes the general standards for evaluation, accreditation, promotion, and certification of students in elementary and middle school. The SEP coordinates with the Higher Education Accreditation Council (COPAES) and National Institute for Assessment of Education in order to further monitor standards and accreditation efforts (Clark, 2013); (Secretaría de Educación Pública, 2010).
- The SEP is responsible for the content of the national curriculum while the National Institute for Assessment of Education (INEE) monitors standards in schools (Secretaría de Educación Pública, 2010).
- Higher Education Accreditation Council (COPAES ) is a non-profit civic organization designated to recognizing official accrediting bodies in different fields of study that in turn accredit undergraduate degree programs (Clark, 2013).
- Accrediting bodies must renew their recognition status with COPAES every five years, and institutions must also submit accredited degree programs to a re-evaluation every five years (Clark, 2013).
