Accreditation Issues

1. What is Program Accreditation?

(Extracted from COPPA 2^nd edition with minor editing)

An assessment exercise to determine whether a programme has met the quality standards and is in compliance with the Malaysian Qualifications Framework. There are three stages of programme accreditation:

Provisional Accreditation is an accreditation exercise to determine whether a proposed programme meets the minimum quality standards prior to its launch.

Full Accreditation is an accreditation exercise to ascertain that the teaching, learning and all other related activities of a provisionally accredited programme meet the quality standards.

Compliance Evaluation (Called “Reaccreditation” in UM) is an exercise to monitor and ensure the maintenance and enhancement of accredited programmes.

2. When should you prepare the PSAR?

Provisional: Immediately after obtaining the MSA approval
Full/ reaccreditation: 1 year before you need to submit the PSAR