And here is something truly scary.
From September 2014 EF are now an Academy with a super slick web site except the photographs on the slick EF Academy web site are mostly of white students and they can't be actual EF students because if they were then the pictures would carry soem kind of EF trademarks
“The most powerful thing we do at EF is believe in our students.”
Mark Seman, President, EF Academy
(http://www.ef.com/ia/about-us/)
First thing I looked for is some kind of accreditation (important for students who are paying out big bucks) and found very little, except for the University placements which are in a "partnership" with the oh so well known Hult International Business School
http://www.ef.com/ia/results/hult/
Which leads me to
http://www.hult.edu/en/about-hult/accreditations/
Where one can see mostly "paid for " Associations.
And then John Bear (Degree Mill Finder General) http://www.quackwatch.com/04ConsumerEducation/dm0.html who says to search for accreditation on http://www.chea.org
Where Hult are accredited by an Association http://www.chea.org/search/actionInst.asp?accredID=1;New%20England%20Association%20of%20Schools%20and%20Colleges
Except that the Association listed on CHEA isn't listed on https://www.hult.edu/en/about-hult/accreditations
All I can say is
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
Personally I would hope advise prospective students to visit http://www.britishcouncil.org/education where the student can get the information for free from a real regulatory authority and not an Association for Friends.
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