I'm in the midst of a three-day business trip, part of a committee visiting a (private) school to recommend (or not) its decennial accreditation.
A couple of staff/administrators at this school are fairly new, come from non-school backgrounds, and are absolutely mind-boggled that we (schools) do this in this way. We're not outside regulators, we're not professional school-licensers, we're just people from other schools. Which prompts the question:
Is there another industry where it's standard for a company to say "hey, let's have a half-dozen competitors come wander around for three days, p…