Trust and assurance
What this page covers
Understand what Preferred, Emerging, Under Review, Suspended and Inactive mean.
Requirements
What is required
- Preferred Education Agency and Preferred Education Provider are standards-based organisation statuses
- CIEA is an individual professional credential with its own validity and status
- Preferred Education Advisor requires both an eligible organisation relationship and active professional requirements
- Commercial plans control service capacity and do not change qualification or ranking
- Internal risk classifications are not public badges
Privacy
What is public — and what stays private
Standards and membership requirements are public. Member names, programmes, Market Mandates, contacts, application records and commercial terms are private.
Important
EducationB2B shares private information only when the provider’s rules and the partnership stage allow it.
Status definitions
What each status means
| Category | Meaning | Public treatment |
|---|---|---|
| Membership status | Whether an organisation’s membership is current | Published only when the organisation chooses to make the record public |
| Verification status | A specific fact checked against stated records | Does not imply a general quality guarantee |
| Credential status | Current state of an individual professional credential | Exact-record verification only |
| Preferred status | A standards-based network status | Not purchasable and not a commercial ranking |
| Commercial plan | The account limits and services purchased | Does not change application decisions or matching priority |
| Payout status | The stated payment-service treatment for a relationship | No protection is implied unless expressly documented |
| Risk tier | Internal review and control classification | Not public |
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