Visioning Activity

The PAASCU Board of Trustees and representatives from the eight PAASCU Commissions convened for a two-day visioning activity last August 3-4, 2023 at Marco Polo Hotel Ortigas. The purpose of the activity was two-fold, i.e., to provide an update on the Strategic Plan of SY2021-2024 and to receive inputs on the new plan that will…

INQAAHE Conference 2023

The Independent Agency for Quality Assurance in Education (IQAA) served as the host organization for the 17th biennial conference of the International Network for Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education (INQAAHE), which was held in Astana, Kazakhstan, from May 29 to June 1, 2023. The conference’s theme was “Roadmap to Enabling Quality in Tertiary Education…

PAASCU is now WFME Recognized

The World Federation of Medical Education (WFME) has awarded Recognition Status to PAASCU for ten (10) years. PAASCU was visited by WFME and was composed of foreign medical experts. The assessors include Dr. Julio Cesar Gomez Fernandez, Dr. Peih-ying Lu, Ms. Wambui Wang’ombe, and headed by Ms. Julie Drendall. The assessors went with the PAASCU…

PAS Training Session

PAS Training Session A PAASCU Accreditation System (PAS) training session was conducted online via Zoom on February 22, 2023. In her presentation, Ms. Catherine Salamanca of Rakso CT described how member schools could navigate PAS, create their PAS Account Numbers (PAN), and explore its other features like submitting self-survey reports and scheduling accreditation visits for…

PAASCU 65th Anniversary General Assembly

PAASCU celebrated its 65th founding anniversary and annual general assembly last November 25, 2022, at Manila Marriott Hotel. The theme of this year’s assembly is Making Roads: Challenges and Opportunities to EQAAs in the New Normal. The occasion began with a Mass of Thanksgiving presided over by the Board of Trustees priests: Fr. John Christian…

Women in QA Forum

Last October 11-12, 2022, Ms. Alma Credo and Ms. Rose Asoy represented PAASCU in the“Women in Quality Assurance Forum” held in Bangkok, Thailand. European Union Support toHigher Education in the ASEAN Region (EU SHARE) organized the forum to advance women'srepresentation in the QA sector and encourage female QA agency employees to assumeleadership positions. The eight…

BED Training of New Chairs

Basic Education Training of New Chairs Fourteen accreditors attended training for prospective team chairs that the PAASCU Elementary,Secondary, and Basic Education Commissions conducted last August 19, 2022.Mr. Ricardo R. Palo, Executive Director, gave the opening remarks and identified the responsibilitieschairpesons have with its many stakeholders, including the survey team members, the schoolundergoing a site visit,…