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Credo: Self-Regulation  with accreditation  
Mission:  Advancing Self-regulation with Accreditation 
Objective:  
Helping Higher Education Institutions (HEI) to globally benchmark with the best in the class by adopting peer reviewed independent internationally accepted and validated accreditation standards offered by select & elite Accreditation institutions

Top Rated International Accreditation Agencies  have been presenting at SEAA Conferences from 2008. 

We  had  chosen "Social Impact of Business Education" as a theme for the just concluded 15th International Accreditation Conference 15TH IAC 2022   held   on  November for two days, 7 & 8, 2022 (Mon/Tuesday) .

The current year's conference had nearly 30  speakers from around the world representing the UN Global Compact, the Five International Accreditation systems we closely track, leading  B-schools  and also the  Industry and Education leaders to discuss the various aspects connected to  Business School education's impact on the society.  Detailed suggestions were provided to    help the schools to produce leaders  for the future who are sensitive to the global sustainability and development. We would presenting our Report on the conference  soon. 

Day1: We had an extremely purposeful Day 1 of  our 15th International  Accreditation Conference  on a virtual platform where  our panel discussion on the theme "Social Impact of Business Education" led by Prof Bijoy Sahoo, Executive vice chancellor of Southern University and A& M college, Baton Rouge. We had an extremely intensive  and equally thought provoking  sessions from AACSB led by Amy Memon, Regional Head South Asia, EFMD led by Prof Piet Naude Director of the University of Stellenbosch Business School USB and Dr  Mark Stoddard, Director of Accreditation of AMBA-GBA. We rounded up with a crucial reminder of the future under our SEAA+Future talk series delivered by Asia's largest atmospheric water harvesting company,  Ramarkishna M R Chairman of Maitri Aquatech, Hyderbad. UN Global Compact Network India was well represented by Aseem Kumar, Head Asia Pacific Resource Center of UN GCNI.  

Day2: What sort of future managers we would be producing for the emerging social order? Answers to this were complex and varied that were provided by our speakers on the second day panel led by Doug Gilbert of Lone Tree Academics of USA. The debate centered around  ethics, values and experiential learning rather than rot learning and industry internships that does not add to learning. The  day also saw two International Accreditaion presentations from ACBSP and IACBE, both of whom are  doing great work in the area of learning assessment for the social impact by member schools. The two SEAA+Future continued on the same vein of suggesting that the students should be all rounded  and just focused on profit maximisation  as end goal for industry. Benedict Gnanaish  a media professional suggests students are prepared to respond for just based on memory, but attention, processing and sequencing of thought while Dr V J Byra Reddy of Chanakya was advocating  Liberal arts learning in Business Education to help connect with society.  

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Also keeping in mind our commitment to ongoing  Ten year campaign of building high level globally benchmarked quality in Education using the technology tools, we are conducting the current year's conference also  on a virtual mode like the last two years. 

 

The idea is to understand the tectonic changes taking place in the industry  having adopted  industry 4.0 as a  concept central to which is the commitment of industry to society. The   future is not   for  the conventional industry and societal interface where the later is  more or less taken for granted with the industry  pushing its products and services not  based on the need of the society but on the strength and willingness of the industry to open new markets  and new needs. Much of the Business Education is to understand the industry consumer interface more as demand push  rather  than demand pull with the  society demanding a product or service and not the industry pushing its products or services  whether or not society needs or wants. This is based on the premises of lack of knowledge of the consumers or the perceived purchasing power of the consumers. 

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SEAA Conference themes  2008-2021

  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". 14th IAC 2021

The  United Nations Global Compact india of which we have been members for some years now looked  at the entire industry consumer ecosystem from the  standpoint of development which is also sustainable. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals  SDGs enunciated by the  the Global  Compact has placed the industry in the center of the  society  where it is expected to meet the needs of the society on a sustainable basis.  SEAA Trust, New Delhi as member of the UN Global compact  has been  spearheading the  Industry 4.0 debate and the discussions on the New Education Policy of 2019 from the perspective of what is needed for the society  and try and understand what the Business Education  processes can do to  impact the society by building  leaders sensitive to the society needs. 

International Accreditation agencies have also understood this shift and  all the top accreditors have included social goals as part of the  assessment process being rolled out while they evaluate the  institutions for accreditation. Our Revised Accreditation Handbook of 2022 in partnership with Indus Business Academy would reflect this new development as well. 

Our Academic Partner for the past over a decade Peregrine Global Services, an international Educational services and Assessment leader with footprint in over 70 countries worldwide  has also done some pioneering  work in sensitizing the students  as to their responsibility towards society.

6th Peregrine SEAA students case competition 

Our 6th Peregrine Global -SEAA Student case competition  will also have the same theme  and sub themes as the conference so that we would assess and understand the thought process of the future  leaders. We also request  the  Faculty to  submit their papers  on the same theme and sub-themes which will help select three papers that would be presented  at the conference in addition to all the submitted and chosen papers being published in our conference book. 

The global business leaders are convinced  the technology is no longer the challenge but leadership definitely is. Increasingly the top business schools from around the world are under pressure to tweak the  curriculum

   to ensure  the passing out batches of student managers are going out equipped with high level of technology exposure and awareness about the challenges ahead when they take up positions that may impact society. 

Dr Olin O Odekoven  has    ended his ceaseless contribution to the global education quality building .  At SEAA Trust, New Delhi we had  the first hand  experience  of how the former American Brigadier General  from Wyoming shaped the quality building process in India through his company Peregrine Academics and now Peregrine Global and also his personal. friendly and relentless efforts expecting nothing in return!  May his Soul Rest in Peace 

Our 15th International Accreditation Conference   held for two days on November 7 & 8 , 2022 (virtual)  was well attended and also gave us significant insights  into the "social impact of business education" which was the theme of the conference. 
14th IAC 2021 Day 1 Panel 
14th IAC 2021 Day 2 Panel 
14th IAC 2021 Day 3 All Women  Panel 
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New Educational Policy makes Accreditation mandatory for all 

The entire  Education structure from schools to colleges under the New Education policy is anchored around Accreditation which is going to be used as the only instrument to management high quality in education process. The proposal is to set up  "An effective quality self-regulation or accreditation system  for all stages of education including pre-school education - private, public, and philanthropic - to ensure compliance with essential quality standards" NEP states. 

         > By 2032, all degrees can be given by accredited type 1 to 3 institutions*

         > New accreditation agencies to accredit all HEIs in 5-7 years
         > By 2030 all HEIs have to compulsorily have accreditation
         > All accredited institutes will get graded autonomy within next 2 to 3 years

*Type 1 : Research institutions Tye 2: Teaching institutions & Type 3: Colleges

Our 14th International Accreditation conference endorsed  the fact that there is no going back and possibly flipped and blended classrooms and lifelong learning may be the  answer for the future.
Edu-tech holds the key and Accreditation, Indian or international, is now more a necessity than an ideal option for acquiring cutting edge quality strategy for an uncertain future.  

Almost 40 speakers from around the world spoke at our conference and agreed that campuses and industry need to understand the digital future and prepare leaders accordingly to steer future industries. Corona might have caused human catastrophe but it also created a new hope for the future of mankind. 

The annual conferences of SEAA had always brought together powerful  thought leaders representing top rated International Accreditation Agencies, including AACSB, EFMD, AMBA, ACBSP, IACBE, SAQS, ATHEA, British Accreditation Council and BGA. 

Our  conferences, seminars, workshops, Round-tables, faculty training programmes and leadership  development events over the past 14 years has definitely impacted quality development in world's second largest MBA market that produces over  quarter million BBA and MBA  students annually. 

SEAA has been offering training, advisory and consulting services in the area of accreditation  and quality improvement for the past 14 years. Our lucid and powerful workshops cover the faculty, leadership & students of the B-schools and our customized accreditation awareness workshops have helped many B-schools to make their  accreditation choices and helped streamline their responses to the accreditation agency requirements.

SEAA Forum is a meeting place of minds to help us in our mission to advance Self-regulation with Accreditation in the B-schools The forum will provide the knowledge, tools and training for the member schools (more)

SEAA Trust, New Delhi  joined the United Nations Global compact as a member  of its Indian operations which also includes the PRME (Principles for Responsible Management Education). SEAA primarily focuses in the Social Development Goat (SDG) Number 4 dealing with education.  (more) 

PEREGRINE GLOBAL ACADEMIC  PARTNERSHIP

SEAA Trust New Delhi has over a decade long association with Peregrine  Academic services and its constituents which have all been brought under a single banner Peregrine Global a year ago. We had signed a MoU  with Peregrine as an Academic partner in our endeavor to bring together all the top rated accreditation agencies on the same platform to advance the cause of global accreditation and also introduce Peregrine online assessment and academic services to the Indian market.  We   also introduced the Instant cases of the Business School Resource center successfully. 

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