Accreditation Calvary University and Others

Following my postings on this blog I have been inundated with emails with details of all sorts of training facilities in the Christian Arena in South Africa and I would like to explain a bit about the "accreditation"  requirements as far as they are concerned.

I am not claiming to be an expert on this but anyone differing from me is welcome to give me feedback

Here are the facts :

1.  If you are a training facility claiming to be able to issue degrees in South Africa you have to be registered with the Department of Higher education and your course have to be registered as well.
2.  If you issue degrees from some international University that university have to be accredited somewhere and with some accreditation authority of good standing somewhere and you must be able to PROVE to anyone inquiring the details.  It is always a good idea to confirm the existence of this "accreditation  authority"
This is not always easy and I will be posting some details of how you can go about it in a follow up posting.
3.  If you offer short courses you should be able to explain to your prospective students what the course is worth if it is not accredited.  There are no law requiring short courses to be accredited but should you be issuing certificates (other than a certificate of attendance) you have to explain what it is that the student have learned and where this course is accredited.  Depending on what you want to do with the course and whether the intended employer will accept the credibility of content you can do the course as long as it does not claim to be a degree, a certificate or having so much "CREDITS" towards some eventual qualification if it is not accredited

4.  The existence and actual acceptance of the accreditation authority by the relevant authorities is also a problem.   It is also a good idea to investigate this.   (Google is the best tool for this)

5.  The best is to actually ask the prospective learning authority a few questions and these are the basics :

     a.   Where are you accredited ?
     b.    Could you show me a copy of the eventual qualification document I will receive should I pass the course ? This document should contain details of accreditation - If it does not they are not accredited.
     c.   Could you give me details of your accreditation _  a copy of the accreditation certificate is a good idea or just the name and address of the accreditation authority and their relevant accreditation numbers.
   
6.  Although they might have the best material in the world it is worth nothing if no one will accept the eventual certificate.     Claiming to have  good name over the past so many years and issuing illegal degrees ( Like Calvary is doing) is a total farce.
   

a new (old) website with some more bogus.........

The following quote was found on the website :  http://www.jericho.co.za/sba/courses/index.php

This is one of the other websites run by SBM .................




Every bit of training direction of accredited programmes for which we do mentoring is determined by the providers (example: Calvary Academics, City & Guilds, EDI, LCCI, etc) of the registered programmes. 


The following of course are the problems with this claim :


1.  None of the programs run by Calvary Academics has been accredited ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD...........
2.  None of its programs are REGISTERED anywhere in the world.............
3.  As of today SBM does not have accreditation from either City &Guilds, EDI or LCCI.   We do not comment further on Calvary academics as it is a non entity.