Quality Assurance, Review and Accreditation
Part Five: What Is Accreditation and How Does It Work?
This Part provides a PowerPoint slide introduction to this topic, and deliberately includes considerable textual material to address:
- An example of accreditation requirements from the United States
- Accreditation details from the Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications (HKCAAVQ)
- Definitions and scope of accreditation
- Institutional and Program Accreditation
- Benefits of accreditation to different parties
- Details of each of 11 standards for institutional accreditation
- Nine main areas for institutional accreditation for the HKCAAVQ
- Definition of accreditation by the HKCAAVQ
- Principles of accreditation (HKCAAVQ)
- Purposes of accreditation (HKCAAVQ)
- Institutional accreditation with the HKCAAVQ
- Preparing for accreditation with the HKCAAVQ
- Institutional review and its outcomes (HKCAAVQ)
- Guide to the layout of each of the 9 main areas by HKCAAVQ:
- Governance, management and institutional structure
- Academic plans
- Programme approval, monitoring and review
- Staffing
- Staff development
- Students admission
- Students services and student records
- Quality assurance
- Resources
Download the whole slide presentation of Accreditation in English Version (pdf)
Download the whole slide presentation of Accreditation in Chinese Version (pdf)
Link to Part One: What Is Quality Assurance and How Does It Affect Me?
Link to Part Two: The Work of the University's Quality Assurance Office and the Faculty Offices.
Link to Part Three: What Is Faculty Review and What is Self-Evaluation for faculty Review?
Link to Part Four: What Is Program Review and What Is Self-Evaluation for Program Review?
Link to Part Six: Preparing for Faculty Review
Link to Faculty Review