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Quality assurance and accreditation mechanisms

Respondents provided high level information on quality assurance. Information was sought to characterise whether quality assurance and accreditation was in place within the country and the accrediting body responsible. From the data, it seems that up to 16% (valid n=20) of the respondents claimed no accreditation mechanisms. Figure 3.9 shows the relative proportions of accrediting agencies reported by the sample.

Figure 3.9: Accrediting agencies | n= 98.

Those agencies classified within the category others included examples where regional professional agencies were accrediting, quasi-university and government agencies and out-sourced bodies.