South Asian Quality Assurance System (SAQS)

South Asian Quality Assurance System (SAQS)

Real?

 

I've heard of SAQA from South Africa but I've never heard of this other thing. Is it an acronym ripoff? It's done with universities and it's done with accreditors . . . What's it supposed to be anyway?

 

http://www.amdisa.org/saqs_new.pdf

 

Thanks, Dr. Ram. It looks like an attempt at establishing a private quality assurance organization /accreditor for business & management schools in the SAARC countries. It is run from a legit school, the University of Hyderabad. So far, they've held a dozen workshops, with people from some pretty influential organizations (AACSB among them) attending.

AMDISA, the parent, says it sees a need for non-government accreditation for South Asian schools of management, and that's the reason for SAQS. The report goes on to day that so far, 10 Indian schools and 3 in Pakistan have been SAQS-accredited.

It's not for me to judge just how necessary SAQS is. It does appear to have made some good affiliations. The SAQS -accredited schools are here and the list contains a couple of schools we've discussed. List of Schools Granted SAQS Accreditation

Some of them, e.g. IILM Institute are fairly well-known. We've also discussed one of the others recently - Welingkar. The parent organization, AMDISA is here: www.amdisa.org

Johann

 

great thanks