Within the context and impact of globalisation and massification of learning, has resulted education to undergo unprecedented changes in the last decade and hence the number and complexity of learning programmes have changed enormously.

The Quality Assurance Commission (QAC) was formed as an autonomous not-for-profit organization. It was established as an accreditation organisation in education & training for learning programmes at vocational and professional levels.

The QAC upholds the view that education in general, is every citizen’s right and in this respect it is the foremost duty of the countries worldwide to create an environment which is conducive to the attainment and realization of each and every individual’s potential by providing opportunities for all learners to acquire good quality formal education from basic to the highest level, and in so doing enable the country to grow and develop into a healthy and prosperous nation.

QAC Objectives

• Continue facilitating the development/review and implementation of institutional quality assurance mechanisms.
• Assist the private professional and vocational institutional bodies to carry out their self-assessments;
• Develop, review and disseminate criteria for external quality audit;
• Undertake external quality audit of the private professional and vocational institutional bodies;
• Institutional programmatic accreditation mechanisms and procedures; and
• Undertake accreditation of professional and vocational international institutions.

Our Status

The QAC is registered with governmental statutory bodies in Malaysia and the United Kingdom. In Malaysia, the Quality Assurance Commission is registered with SSM and MATRADE.

SSM Reg. No.002022724-M

SSM is a statutory body under the Ministry of Domestic Trade, Co-operatives and Consumerism in Malaysia.
SSM

MATRADE Reg. No.33119

MATRADE is a statutory body under the Ministry of International Trade and Industry in Malaysia.
Matrade

UK Government:

The Quality Commission Assurance is listed as a professional quality assurance body by the UK Department for Business, Innovation & Skills.

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) is a ministerial department of the United Kingdom Government created on 5 June 2009 by the merger of the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) and the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR). The department is responsible for UK Government policies on business regulation, operation & licensing, further education, higher education, innovation, science & research, skills, trade and training.
Department Of Business Innovation & Skills (BIS)

In the United Kingdom, the QAC UK is registered with the UK Register of Learning Providers,

UK Provider Reference Number: UKPRN10033072

The UK Register of Learning Providers is an external verification agency set up by the UK governmental funding agency, The Skills Funding Agency under the Department for Business Innovation & Skills.
Skills Funding Agency

The UK Register of Learning Providers is a 'one-stop' portal to be used by UK Government Departments, Agencies, Learners, and Employers to share key information about learning providers. The UKRLP allows providers to update their information in one place and share this across agencies such as the Skills Funding Agency, the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), and the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and UCAS.
UK Register of Learning Provider

QAC UK is listed in the 37th and 38th Edition of the British Qualifications.