The 18th International Accreditation Conference sets the agenda for spreading the concept of Socially Impactful education
The Just concluded 18th annual International Accreditation Conference of SEAA Trust, New Delhi at our Conference Host school Indus Business Academy (IBA) Bangalore has set the agenda for advocating Socially Impactful Education for HEIs including the Business Schools using International Accreditation benchmarks of quality.

There were six international Accreditation Agencies were represented at our conference. Since we had adopted the theme "Quality Assurance with Accreditation with a view to help foster total quality ecosystem in the institutions with, the accreditaiton bodies, and the institutions that they are accreditation, even the industry and human resource stakeholders in the scene. Industry association such as Federation of Karnataka Chamber of Commerce, Bangalore Chamber of Commerce and Industry, HR and training associations NHRDN, NIPM and ISTD, Vice Chancellors of three Universities and the CEO of small industry support institution to discuss quality in Business Schools. The Association of Indian Management Schools AIMS was also represented at our conference.
Highlights:
There were 34 speakers including ten overseas institutions at our conference. For the first time Global Business School Network (GBSN) presented at our conference. Dan Leclair CEO of GBSN explained as to how Schools coming together can serve the society better. Doug Gilbert highlighted the need for Accreditation systems to focus on overcoming VUCA challenges at the Business School campuses.

Awards

4th Olin Oedekoven memorial International Accreditation Leadership Award conferred on Prof Joe Philip, the well known Management Education Guru and founder Chairman of XIME Bangalore recognizing is more than 60 years of contribution for quality improvement in the Business School community.

We also instituted a separate International Accreditation Champions Award for recognizing the work of non-academic leaders in management schools to advance the cause of international accreditaiton. Though it is not popular in India yet, accreditation related work is usually carried out by non-academic leaders to help foster quality without putting pressure on faculty. Two recipients were chosen for this year's award:

1. Jelani Mohammed Registrar at Goa Institute of Management (GIM) for long years of work in advancing International Accreditation in different schools he had worked earlier.

2 Shikha Taunk for her contribution at XLRI, Jamshedpur before joining AMBA-BGA this year. (Details )

Vision: Self-Regulation with accreditation
Mission: Achieving Self-regulation among the HEIs community by adopting peer reviewed independent internationally accepted and validated accreditation standards offered by select & elite International Accreditation institutions

Standards for Educational Advancement & Accreditation (SEAA) Trust, New Delhi

was launched advocating "Self-Regulation with Accreditation" as its core mission. Based on the experience of having Pioneered the Media Ranking and Rating of Business Education in India since the year 2000 at the top rated Business India fortnightly, the founder of SEAA Trust, New Delhi felt that a campaign for International Accreditation was Necessary to bring in the best Benchmarks of Quality in Indian Business Education, which is world's largest in the number of Business Schools, but fairly low in the list of B-Schools that could claim to possess Internationally comparable quality.

Our Advocacy campaigns: In the year 2008 when SEAA Trust, New Delhi's campaign for Global Accreditation was launched there was just one B-school, Management Development Institute (MDI) Gurgaon that was Internationally Accredited by Association of MBAs, London (AMBA). We launched our first Advocacy conference in that year. We were overwhelmed by the response of Business Schools numbering over 200 at our First conference.

Future Forward: As we entered the New Year 2025, 17 years later, support to our conference has not waned nor the brisk pace with which the schools are acquiring International Benchmarks of quality from the above listed International Accreditation Agencies vindicating our Campaign. From just one Internationally Accredited Business School when we started now there are over 100 B-Schools that are globally accredited.

The Outcome: All the top B-Schools that usually figure within 200 Ranks in any listing is either accredited globally or is processing its International Accreditation currently leading to true Self-Regulation for benchmarked progress and for achieving globally benchmarked quality.

Annual Conferences: Our annual Conference has emerged as a benchmark by itself by connecting the best business schools with the top-rated accreditation systems of the world without a break in the past 18 years.

SEAA Offerings: Besides propagating International Accreditation benchmarks, we are also sensitive to changing Business and Education landscape and we have consistently chosen contemporary topics at our annual conferences and also at the various Regional campus-based programmes, Faculty Development Programmes, workshops both online and offline.

SEAA Conference themes 2008-2024

1. International Accreditation Advocacy for Global Quality Benchmarks
2. Globalizing B-schools with Accreditation
3. Cutting Edge Quality with accreditation
4. Raising the Quality Bar through International accreditation
5. Cutting edge benchmarks for Global quality
6. Build campus quality with International accreditation
7. It s all about students, emerging trends in teaching & learning
8. Accreditation edge in business education leadership
9. Go global with accreditation
10. Self-regulation & global quality through accreditation
11. Accreditation & After, the power of benchmarking with the best
12. Millennial job challenge, How B-schools could respond with accreditation
13. Re-imagining Business Education with cutting edge quality strategy.
14 "Leadership building for the Digital future-the B-school challenge"
15. "Social Impact of Business Education
16. "Winning Strategies to produce Globally Impactful MBAs"
17. "Social Impact Focus on building leadership in ESG led world"
18. "Quality Assurance with Accreditation, the Challenge within"

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With our over 18 years of experience in the area of International Accreditation advocacy and our vast and deep rooted networks of experts on a wide variety of accreditation offerings, SEAA would be able to help the schools and agencies at all levels. Our Credo "Seff Regulation with Accreditation" is our driving force for offering our services.

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