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Accreditation Policy

2.2.2 Submission of PSAR

The accreditation visit shall be deferred if the submitted documents are of unacceptable quality, or do not follow
the required format of the Standard. In such a case, the programme owner shall resubmit the application. Failure to
do so in a timely manner may result in the frozen of student intake.
If the submitted documents have followed the required format, but the contents are found to be inadequate,
the programme owner is required to provide further information, or clarification. If the programme owner does not
provide further information within 7 days, the evaluation visit may be cancelled.

2.2.3 Submission of Programme Improvement Plan (PIP)

Based on the summary report given by the Panel of Assessors, the programme owner is required to prepare the
Programme Improvement Plan (PIP) to address the recommendations given by the panel. This must be done within
2 weeks.

If the submit PIP is not acceptable by the panels, the Panels can request the programme owner to redo the PIP
and resubmit.

2.3 ACCREDITATION PANEL

The evaluation exercise shall be conducted by an Evaluation Panel (consisting of three (3) members) for provisional,
full and re-accreditation. At LEAST ONE of the panel members MUST be a Subject Matter Expert (SME) from another
university.

2.4 ACCREDITATION DECISION

Upon completion of the accreditation exercise, JKSA and senate will consider the conferment of the accreditation
status to the academic programme based on the following:
a) Final assessment report.
b) Programme improvement plan
c) Programme sustainability index.
d) Summary report from the Head of Panel

Provisional accreditation

Recommendation Duration Actions of Programme owner Criteria
Give provisional Valid for 5 years. Must offer the programme within two (2) years from None
accreditation Must do Full Accreditation the approval of Jawatankuasa Pendidikan Tinggi
exercise before the first (JKPT).
cohort graduate.
Conditional Approval Programme owner is required to make None
improvements within 6 months from the JKSA
meeting. The programme owner also need to submit
a report on the improvement made to the Panel of
Assessors to comfirm that the recommendations
have been addressed.

Full Accreditation and reaccreditation
Recommendation Duration Actions of Programme owner Criteria
(Refer Appendix 1.1)
Give full accreditation 5 years None

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