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Accreditation Manual for Program Owner

Recommendation Duration Actions of Programme owner Criteria
(Refer Appendix 1.1)
Give full accreditation with 5 years Submit interim report within 2 years Programme with minor issues.
conditions (minor)
Give full accreditation with 5 years Submit interim report within 2 years and Programme with major issues.
conditions (major) prepare for site visit
Give full accreditation with 5 years Frozen intake. Programme with critical
conditions (critical) Programme owner is required to issues based on Programme
sustainability index
a) Have CQI to address the critical issues.
b) Submit interim report within 1 year.
c) Prepare for site visit.

If the Interim report is not submitted in due time, JKSA can decide to freeze the students intake.

2.5 PUBLICATION OF ACCREDITATION STATUS

The Programme owner is required to submit the following forms within two weeks after the approval of Senate.
# Provisional Accreditation: Permohonan Penyenaraian Perakuan Akreditasi Sementara (PAS) dalam Portal
Swa Akreditasi
# Full accreditation: Permohonan Bagi Pendaftaran Programme atau Kelayakan dalam Daftar Kelayakan
Malaysia (MQR)
The relevant documents will be sent to QMEC for checking before submit to MQA for approval and to update the
MQR (Full and Reaccreditation) or MQA/FA (Provisional)

A copy of the certificate will be given to the programme owner to be displayed prominently once received from MQA.

2.6 CONFIDENTIALITY

Documents or other information obtained by the Panel of Assessors, QMEC members and JKSA members in relation
with the accreditation exercise shall be treated as confidential. QMEC may store this information for later usage
as required by MQA. Some of the information may be used as training purposes where the “confidentiality” of the
source will be maintained.

The panels are not allowed to make copies, share and/or do something that violates the rights of UM. Any
changes to the documents without the approval of UM is prohibited.

2.7 EXPENSES

In principle, the expenses for the accreditation (payment to the Panel of Assessors as well as the fees to MQA) will
be borne by QMEC. QMEC will apply the budget for these expenses from UM Management based on the projected
number of programmes going through the accreditation exercise.
It is the responsibility of the Faculty/Academy/Centre/Institute (on behalf of the programme owner) to inform
QMEC on projected number of programmes going through the accreditation exercise for the following year latest
by October of the current year. Failure to do so will result in the programme owner to bear the whole cost for the
accreditation. It should be noted that hospitality of the panel (refreshments, lodging, travelling or other incidental
expenses) will be borne by the Programme Owner.

2.8 CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Members of the Panel of Assessors, QMEC members and JKSA members are expected to be constantly aware of
any conflict of interest. Members shall declare their interest or withdrawal from any situation or activity that may
constitute a conflict of interest.

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