IEAC LIMITED t/a International Education Accreditation Council (IEAC)

The website names the legal entity on its contact page, where the registered address is given under the heading "IEAC Limited". IEAC LIMITED is registered at Companies House under company number 15419711, incorporated on 17 January 2024, company type private limited company, company status Active. The registered office is 2nd Floor College House, 17 King Edwards Road, Ruislip, London, HA4 7AE. The nature of business recorded is SIC 85600, educational support services.

We looked for the company registration number on the home, about, contact, terms of use, disclaimer, legal, data protection, complaints, payment, payment terms, standards, policies and procedures, FAQ, inspection process, accreditation process, appeals, institutions accredited, programmatic accreditation and partners pages, and did not find it on the pages reviewed.

The Companies House filing history records accounts for a dormant company made up to 31 January 2025, filed 28 February 2025, and accounts for a dormant company made up to 31 January 2026, filed 2 April 2026. The website publishes fees for accreditation services on its FAQ page and publishes a list of accredited institutions carrying reference numbers containing the years 2024, 2025 and 2026.

The footer address block on every page reviewed lists the UK address and, beneath it, "Asia Teachers Training Co., Ltd (Thailand)" with a Bangkok address. The contact page separately lists "International Education Accreditation Council Co., Ltd ( Asia Office)" with a different Bangkok address. We looked for a published statement describing the relationship between IEAC Limited and either of those two entities, and did not find one on the pages reviewed.

The FAQ page states that the organisation offers a consultancy service to institutions, including assistance in formulating policies and procedures. The same website offers accreditation to institutions. We looked for a published statement addressing how the consultancy service is separated from the accreditation service, and did not find one on the pages reviewed.

The partners page names thirteen organisations under the heading "IEAC Partners", among them the Information Commissioner's Office and the UK Register of Learning Providers. We looked for a published statement indicating whether any of these relationships involve payment, referral or affiliate arrangements, and did not find one on the pages reviewed.

SOURCES:

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/15419711 | Companies House company overview, IEAC LIMITED, company number 15419711 | accessed 23 July 2026
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/15419711/filing-history | Companies House filing history | accessed 23 July 2026
https://www.ieac.org.uk/contact-us.php | Contact page | accessed 23 July 2026
https://www.ieac.org.uk/faq.php | FAQ page | accessed 23 July 2026
https://www.ieac.org.uk/partners.php | Partners page | accessed 23 July 2026
https://www.ieac.org.uk/ | Home page (footer address block) | accessed 23 July 2026

A postal address is published in the footer of every page reviewed and on the contact page: 2nd Floor College House, 17 King Edwards Road, Ruislip, London, HA4 7AE. This is the same address as the registered office recorded at Companies House.

A telephone number, +44 20 4578 1431, is published in the header and footer of every page reviewed and on the contact page.

Two email addresses are published in the header and footer of every page reviewed and on the contact page: [email protected] and [email protected].

We looked for a named individual identified as a contact for complaints or disputes on the home, contact, complaints and appeals pages, and did not find one on the pages reviewed. The complaints page directs complainants to the [email protected] address. The appeals page directs appeals to "the Chairperson of the IEAC accreditation sub- committee".

SOURCES:

https://www.ieac.org.uk/contact-us.php | Contact page | accessed 23 July 2026
https://www.ieac.org.uk/complaints.php | Complaints policy page | accessed 23 July 2026
https://www.ieac.org.uk/appeals.php | Appeals procedure page | accessed 23 July 2026
https://www.ieac.org.uk/ | Home page (header and footer) | accessed 23 July 2026

Assessment framework. The IEAC Standards page links five downloadable accreditation standards documents, covering colleges, language schools and faith-based institutions; online education providers; schools; universities and higher education; and technical and vocational education and training. The policies and procedures page links a further document titled "ESG Accreditation Standards". We opened the general standards file, the university standards file and the ESG standards file.

Pricing. The FAQ page publishes an application fee of £500, an inspection fee stated as dependent on the size and nature of the institution and the country in which it is based and ranging from £2,000 to £10,000, and states that annual licence fees are charged once accreditation is awarded. We looked for a published figure for the annual licence fee, and did not find one on the FAQ, payment, payment terms or accreditation pages reviewed.

Terms. A terms of use page is published governing website access and use. A payment terms page is published covering fees for accreditation and membership, which states: "There is no refund available for any reason whatsoever." A disclaimer page and a copyright page are also published.

Privacy and complaints. A data protection policy is published as a web page, and a data protection policy document is linked for download from the policies and procedures page. A complaints policy is published, setting out the email route for lodging a complaint, the investigation process and the provision of a written response, together with a downloadable complaint form. An appeals procedure and an online appeal form are published.

Website. The site is served over HTTPS. All pages listed in the sources below loaded when accessed. Placeholder text beginning "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet" appears beneath the page heading on the standards, payment, terms of use, data protection, complaints, appeals, disclaimer, legal, about, FAQ, policies and procedures, accreditation process, accreditation with IEAC and partners pages. On the about page, the bullet under the sub-heading on establishing standards ends with an instruction to the page author beginning "Please add".

Individual assessment. The FAQ page states: "IEAC accredits an institution as a whole, not the individual courses". The same page and the programmatic accreditation page state that a separate programmatic accreditation route evaluates specific academic programmes.

Verification. The institutions accredited page publishes a paginated list of institutions across twenty pages, giving for each entry the institution name, accreditation category, an overall star rating where one is shown, and a reference number in the format IEAC-ACC-2024-017, IEAC-MEM-2025-080 or IEAC-CAN-2026-030. Some entries carry a link to an institution profile page. The page states that inspection reports are available to the public but that the permission of the institution is sought before release, and links to a request form.

Review and renewal. The accreditation with IEAC page states: "Accreditation is generally granted for a 4-year period", that accredited institutions are reviewed every four years, and that biennial reports are submitted in the interim.

Data protection registration. The ICO register of fee payers records IEAC LIMITED under registration reference ZB878897, registered 22 March 2025, expiring 21 March 2027, payment tier Tier 1, at 2nd Floor College House, 17 King Edwards Road, Ruislip, London, HA4 7AE.

SOURCES:

https://www.ieac.org.uk/IEAC-standards.php | IEAC Standards page | accessed 23 July 2026
https://www.ieac.org.uk/pdf/Standard_General.pdf | General accreditation standards document | accessed 23 July 2026
https://www.ieac.org.uk/pdf/Standard_University.pdf | University accreditation standards document | accessed 23 July 2026
https://www.ieac.org.uk/pdf/policy/ESG-Accreditation-Standards.pdf | ESG accreditation standards document | accessed 23 July 2026
https://www.ieac.org.uk/policies-and-procedures.php | Policies and procedures page | accessed 23 July 2026
https://www.ieac.org.uk/faq.php | FAQ page | accessed 23 July 2026
https://www.ieac.org.uk/payment.php | Payment page | accessed 23 July 2026
https://www.ieac.org.uk/terms-paypal.php | Payment terms page | accessed 23 July 2026
https://www.ieac.org.uk/terms-of-use-policy.php | Terms of use page | accessed 23 July 2026
https://www.ieac.org.uk/disclaimer.php | Disclaimer page | accessed 23 July 2026
https://www.ieac.org.uk/legal-policy.php | Legal compliance page | accessed 23 July 2026
https://www.ieac.org.uk/data-protection.php | Data protection page | accessed 23 July 2026
https://www.ieac.org.uk/complaints.php | Complaints policy page | accessed 23 July 2026
https://www.ieac.org.uk/appeals.php | Appeals procedure page | accessed 23 July 2026
https://www.ieac.org.uk/about-IEAC.php | About IEAC page | accessed 23 July 2026
https://www.ieac.org.uk/institutions-accredited.php | Institutions accredited page | accessed 23 July 2026
https://www.ieac.org.uk/accreditation-with-IEAC.php | Accreditation process page | accessed 23 July 2026
https://www.ieac.org.uk/accreditation-process.php | Inspection process page | accessed 23 July 2026
https://www.ieac.org.uk/programmatic-accreditation.php | Programmatic accreditation page | accessed 23 July 2026
https://ico.org.uk/ESDWebPages/Entry/ZB878897 | ICO register of fee payers, entry for IEAC LIMITED | accessed 23 July 2026

The home page describes the organisation's staff as having "over 400 years of combined experience" in evaluating educational institutions.

The about page states that the organisation aligns its accreditation standards with the Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area, "and hence the standards set by the European Qualifications Framework ( EQAR )". We looked for a statement on the pages reviewed indicating whether the organisation is itself registered on the European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education, and did not find one on the pages reviewed.

The home page carries a heading announcing acceptance into membership of a number of bodies, followed by a carousel of logo images. Those bodies are not named in the page text; the names appear within the image files.

The FAQ page states that IEAC accreditation does not give degree-awarding powers, and that IEAC neither confers nor validates degree-awarding.

The home page carries a notice headed "Official Advisory" linking to a PDF statement at https://www.ieac.org.uk/assets/IEAC_Notice.pdf.

SOURCES:

https://www.ieac.org.uk/ | Home page | accessed 23 July 2026
https://www.ieac.org.uk/about-IEAC.php | About IEAC page | accessed 23 July 2026
https://www.ieac.org.uk/faq.php | FAQ page | accessed 23 July 2026

No published rulings or enforcement actions were identified at the time of this review. We accessed the ASA published rulings section and ran searches of the ASA website and of the open web for "IEAC LIMITED" and "International Education Accreditation Council"; no published ASA ruling naming the organisation was returned. We ran open-web searches for the same names in connection with the Information Commissioner's Office, Trading Standards, the Competition and Markets Authority and published court judgments; no enforcement record naming the organisation was returned. The ICO register entry recorded in section 3 is a registration record and not an enforcement record.

SOURCES:

https://www.asa.org.uk/codes-and-rulings/rulings.html | ASA published rulings section | accessed 23 July 2026
https://www.asa.org.uk/codes-and-rulings.html | ASA codes and rulings index, including sanctions, non-compliant advertisers and Trading Standards referrals | accessed 23 July 2026
https://ico.org.uk/ESDWebPages/Entry/ZB878897 | ICO register of fee payers, entry for IEAC LIMITED | accessed 23 July 2026