Association of MBAs UK one of the top three global accreditation agencies, conducted a two day India Accreditation Seminar on November 10 and 11 at New Delhi to introduce in practical terms peer to peer benchmarking of quality with the best business schools of the world. The seminar was conducted by a highly reputed experienced team of international assessors with a deep insight into B-Schools quality worldwide and also specific to Indian subcontinent. It is brought by Standards for Educational Advancement & Accreditation Trust (SEAA Trust), quality advocacy group for B-Schools formed by leading professionals from industry and academia based in New Delhi.

The intensive two day meet had met with an overwhelming response from the B-school community and around 80 Deans, Directors and senior faculty andalso some representatives from corporate sector had attended the seminar. The feedback for the seminar had been excellent and the takeaways included the need for top business schools to go for international accreditation as the best means of differentiating themselves from their peer.

The seminar was offered by the Association of MBAs Director, Dr.Robert Owen, its Accreditation Projects Manager Mark Stoddard, Martyn Jones Pro Vice Chancellor External Relations, Kingston University UK , Prof Jyoti Gupta ESCP-EAP Graduate School of Management France, Carlos Ramos Advisor to the Dean for Latin America ENPC School of International Management France & International Advisor Association of MBAs UK. And from the Indian side SEAA had invited Dr R A Yadav, All India Council of Technical Education AICTE Chairman, Dr Dinesh Advisor National Board of Accreditation, Dr Panduranga Rao, Vice Chancellor of ICFAI University, Dr B S Sengupta director SIESCOMS and also chairman of SEAA Advisory Board, N M Kondap Vice Chancellor of SVKM's Narsee Monjee University, Dr B S Sahay Director of IMT Ghaziabad to speak

Association MBAs shared not just their accreditation process but also their plans for the Indian subcontinent which included a series of regional seminars to create awareness about international accreditation and also training of top Indian faculty as peer assessors for preparing the self assessment documents.

The intention is to create a 50 to 60 member team of assessors who would help speed up the process of preparing the necessary documents on road to international accreditation. SEAA would be spearheading the effort of Association of MBAs in India as part of its committment for advocating and creating awareness about international accreditation in the country. Association of MBAs will also consider modifying their accreditation process to take into consideration local realities in the b-school arena. The specific list of takeaways is available to the members of the SEAA Educational Quality Forum. Please join the forum by downloading the on-line application form and paying a nominal fee which will help us build a knowledge repository on b-schools quality to help the community.