Self-Regulation with Accreditation
Standards for Educational Advancement & Accreditation (SEAA) Trust, New Delhi successfully conducted its 18th International Accreditation Conference with all but ATHEA accreditation agency participating in. This year we also had the GBSN, the Global Busiess School Network , CEO Dan Leclair participating for the first time.
In the experience sharing section IIM Jammu participated to share their AMBA-BGA and EFMD Global accreditation experience. This years conference was hosted by Indus Business Academy Bangalore celebrating its Silver Jubilee.
The 4th International Accreditation Leadership Award weas presented to Prof Joe Philip , a doyen of management education with over sixty years of contribution in quality building Prof Philip was the founder chairman of XIME Bangalore which has not branched out to Cochin and Chennai. Prof Philip has founded or supported many management institutes of the country including the Institute of SAARC Management Schools.
We also instituted a new award called International Accreditation Support Champion award. The award is to recognise the contribution of non-faculty leaders in the path to International accreditaiton.
In the Western World it is quite common to see non-teaching senior leader would be usually in charge of Accreditation
In the last nearly two decades of Accreditation Advocacy effort we have seen a number of Business Schools opting for International Accreditation standards as a way of permanently improving the campus quality with assured sustainable quality.
However this could not have been achieved without facing considerable challenges within starting with even choosing the right International Accreditation Agency to go with.
i. Faculty involvement and their motivation is another challenge as international accreditation is a long and involved process.
ii. Next challenge is providing funding for accreditation which is definitely an expensive affair.
iii. Data aggregation on a regular basis using the right software to maintain and analyse data
iv Training of manpower, both faculty and the administrative assistants
There are many more ! We expect that the participants to the conference would provide more insights.
The theme of the conference "Quality Assurance with International Accreditation, Challenge within"