IAC Full Form

In this section, we will be engaged with the acronym IAC. There are many expansions of IAC but we will restrict our discussion on the following three expansions of IAC:

• IAC: Internal Acoustic Canal

• IAC: International Accrediting Commission

• IAC: International Association of Counselling

These three IAC full forms are of much importance. IAC full form in education is being discussed here in the form of the International Accrediting Commission and the International Association of Counselling. All these full forms of IAC will be discussed in a great deal henceforth in this section. 

IAC Full Form

The full form of IAC can be many, as mentioned we are considering only 3 expansions of IAC for now. IAC full form in education can be the International Accrediting Commission and International Association of Counselling. 

While IAC in medical terms is Internal Acoustic Canal. After knowing the full form of IAC and also knowing about IAC full form in education let us head on to know about them individually.  

First, we will talk about the Internal Acoustic Canal, then we will further our discussion to the International Accrediting Commission and the International Association of Counselling. 

IAC as in Medical Science

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IAC, as per the medical terminology stands for the internal acoustic canal. This is also known as the internal auditory canal or simply known as meatus (IAM). IAC is located in the petrous part of the temporal bone, which is situated between the inner ear and the posterior cranial fossa. This opens to the inside of the cranial cavity. This opening is known as the internal acoustic opening or the porous acoustics internus. The outer margins here are rounded and very smooth. The outer part of this canal is known as the fundus. The fundus is subdivided by the two thin crests of bone that form three separate canals for the facial and the vestibulocochlear nerve branches.

This is a rounded and smooth canal that measures approximately around 8.5 mm in length, around 4 mm in diameter. This is filled with a fluid called the spinal fluid and lined by dura. It also contains three important nerves which include the auditory nerve, the facial nerve, and the vestibular nerves. IAC provides passage to these three nerves to pass from inside the skull, this gives the structure of the inner ear and face. The facial and vestibulocochlear nerves transmit all the information to the brain. So, the internal acoustic canal is a crucial part of the cranial cavity which helps to perform various vital functions.

IAC as in the Educational Field

IAC – International Accrediting Commission 

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Accrediting Commission International (ACI), which is popularly known as Accrediting Commission International for Schools, Colleges, and Theological Seminaries, is associated with International Accrediting Commission (IAC), which are the International Accrediting Commission for Schools, Colleges and also with the Theological Seminaries. This educational accreditation is least recognized. It is a corporation in the United States. IAC primarily accredits all the religious schools, including the seminaries and even the Bible colleges. They offer accreditation to the non-U.S. schools which offer business educational programs. 

Tracing back to the history of this foundation

In the year 1982, the International Accrediting Commission for Schools, Colleges, and Theological Seminaries (abbreviated as IAC) was established in Missouri. In October of 1988, Missouri’s Attorney created a sting operation where they built the "Eastern Missouri Business College" with deliberately substandard faculty and also with a curriculum that lasted less than a week. Accreditation visits from the IAC resulted in many civil fraud charges. IAC was then ordered to pay the state of Missouri an amount of $15,0000 and cease its operation in the state of Missouri in the fall of the year 1989. 

ACI was later established in 1989 in Beebe, Arkansas. After which they ready acceptance to the IAC members. 

Recognition

ACI is not recognized by the US Department of Education. The institution itself is responsible for recognizing the educational accrediting institutions in the United States. ACI says that the credits from the member schools are not to be accepted by the industry or by any non-member schools. 

The Oregon Office of Degree Authorization includes ACI in its own list of unrecognized accreditation agencies this is by stating that, "any so-called 'accreditation' by these bodies will be meaningless to Oregon and in some other states. In the year 2007, St. Petersburg Time published a defamation lawsuit against IAC as quoted by Alan Contreras, "Anything accredited by ACI in Beebe, Ark., is either fake or substandard, as far as I know." 

In the year 2017, a spokesman for the South Carolina Department of Education said that the diploma which is issued by the Georgia-based, ACI-accredited Cornerstone Christian Correspondence School never matched South Carolina's diploma-issuing criteria. 

IAC – International Association For Counselling 

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IAC, which here stands for International Association for counselling offers great ease and access to the core counselling knowledge and also the instruction in a variety of online formats, which starts from being interactive, being on-demand, and also the curated courses to the live online education with the authoritative webinars — to meet the demands of own job, own career role, and own work schedule.

IAC Online Education Offerings

IAC Continuing their Education Presents The 'Transcultural Counselling'. This is a unique opportunity to learn online from world-renowned counselling experts. This is a 20-hour course that is self-paced. This will increase your cross-cultural responsiveness; this will be supported in a flexible learning environment. After which you can receive a Certificate of Completion and fulfilment of the 20 Continuing Education (CEU) Hours / Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Hours. The pricing is moderate to increase global accessibility. These webinars are also suitable for any counsellors who wish to expand their own practice and customize their approach towards the individual case, either internationally or while serving their own diverse clients situated locally.

Description of the Course

IAC course is designed for counsellors, counsellor educators, and majorly for the students who wish to expand their own practice and customize their self-approach, internationally or while serving their home-based clients. The course offers you in abundance, which is being highlighted below:

• You can gain fascinating insights into the cross-cultural responsiveness 

• You can also Improve self-awareness or the personal values and the biases 

• This will help you to add knowledge to the counselling profession worldwide 

• Now you can communicate the key components of a transcultural counselling approach which is relevant theoretical via the frameworks or the models

• You can apply to learn from the region-specific profiles to self-practice

• One can reflect on their personal definitions of counselling and diverse culture

• You can set specific action items to guide future practices.  

IAC Certification of the Counsellor Education Programmes

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Value of this IAC Certification:

• Demonstrates the commitment to the International Dimension of Counselling Education.

• Marketability – of the interest and appeal to the International and Internationally-minded Students.

• Communicates Own Values to the Students, Faculty, Partners and also to the Stakeholders.

• This will elevate and distinguish your own programme from the rest.

• Highlights the good quality of this International Programme.

• Value the Prestigious Partnership with IAC.

• Low-Cost and is a very User-Friendly Online Application.