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South
Asian Quality Assurance
System
Association of Management Development Institutions in South Asia (AMDISA), a not for profit association, based at Hyderabad launched the accreditation system for Business Schools called “South Asian Quality Assurance System” with acronym as SAQS. SAQS is the South Asian system of quality assessment, improvement, and accreditation of higher education institutions in management and business administration. AMDISA received financial support from EFMD during 2004-2006 for developing SAQS.
The SAQS accreditation system follows the major international accreditation systems like that of EQUIS and AACBSB with the major emphasis on getting the self-assessment document right for the schools being accredited as the first step . This is followed by the visit of the international SAQS Peer Review Team/Committee to the school. Based on the Peer Review Report and Recommendations, the final school-wise decisions are made by the SAQS Accreditation Awarding Committee.
The following Schools, four from India and one from Pakistan have been awarded accreditation:
1. Management
Development Institute, Gurgaon, India
2. Suleman Dawood School
of Business, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan
3. ICFAI Business
School, Hyderabad, India
4. Prin L. N Welingkar
Institute of Management Development and Research, Mumbai, India
5. Xavier Institute
of Management, Bhubaneswar, India
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Asia Pacific Watch
In the new wave of economic upswing started in the turn of the millennium, the Asia Pacific region has become the beehive of activity in the higher education area. A number of top universities, technology and management institsutes are being set up and the buzz is about global quality endorsed by the best of the accreditation agencies. There is also a strong feeling that the regional interests will be best served with the setting up regional accreditation bodies with a pan Asia Pacific reach. The first such body is being worked upon by the AAPBS itself. We will be tracking the developments in the region listing the initiations and initiatives that guarantee the growth of higher education benchmarked with the best in the world. We start the series by focusing on the Association of Asia Pacifc Business Schools (AAPBS) an ambitious initiative started by 11 Business schools from the region including that of Indian Institute of Managemnet Ahmedbad in the year 2004. The AAPBS has promised to develop an Asia Pacific wide accreditation process with the help of international accareditation agencies.
Association
of Asia Pacific Business
Schools
Genesis: The movement for bringing together the B-schools in the Asia Pacific region began at the turn of the new millennium with the regional business schools meeting in Korea in 2001, Taiwan in 2002, Hong Kong in 2003, Australia in 2004 culminating in the historic Seoul conference on October 17,2004 when the Association of Asia Pacific Business Schools (AAPBS) was formally launched. In October that year, the AAPBS Constititution was jointly designed by the 11 participating schools from the region The constituton guranteed the support of the AAPBS to the development of high quality in management education in the region.
The list of B-schools from India in this group currently include:
- Birla Institute of Management Technology
- ICFAI Business School
- Indian Institute of Management - Ahmedabad
- Indian Institute of Management - Bangalore
- Indian Institute of Management - Calcutta
- Indian Institute of Management - Indore
- Indian Institute of Management - Kozhikode
- Indian School of Business
- Management Development Institute
- Mudra Institute of Communications Ahmedabad
- Symbiosis Institute of Business Management
- XLRI, Jamshedpur