DATE: November 9-13, 2026 |
Venue: Online - Virtual Platform |
Type: Regional Program (RP) |
ORGANIZERS: Colombo Plan Staff College (CPSC) and Asia Pacific Accreditation and Certification Commission (APACC), Manila, Philippines
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BACKGROUND
Quality assurance has globally become one of the most important drivers of excellence, competitiveness, innovation, and international recognition in Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET). Across the Asia-Pacific region, the rapid expansion and diversification of TVET, technological disruption, digital transformation, green transition, artificial intelligence, Industry 5.0, and lifelong learning are increasing expectations on TVET institutions to demonstrate measurable quality, relevance, inclusion, employability, industry responsiveness, and continuous improvement to adapt modern practices.
The regional quality assurance challenge is significant because Asia-Pacific TVET systems operate within highly diverse institutional, economic, regulatory, and labor-market contexts. UNESCO-UNEVOC's regional work on quality assurance drew on evidence from 13 Asia-Pacific countries, underscoring the need for transparent and comparable quality mechanisms that can support recognition of qualifications, skills mobility, institutional improvement and stronger links between TVET and the world of work. More recent regional evidence indicates that 84% of TVET stakeholders identified labor market information systems as the most important strategy for identifying new qualifications and competencies, while 83% reported that their countries regularly conduct skills forecasting.
The scale and relevance of institutional quality assurance are further reflected in the growing regional reach of APACC. The APACC accreditation system has established a strong regional presence, supporting the accreditation of TVET institutions across the Asia-Pacific region and contributing to enhanced quality assurance, institutional improvement and professional capacity development. The APACC's Accreditation Framework 2025, launched in October 2025, represents a significant evolution from conventional compliance-oriented accreditation toward transformation-driven quality assurance, with stronger emphasis on continuous quality improvement, evidence-based decision-making, digital and paperless quality assurance, measurable KPIs, innovation, sustainability, green TVET, advanced Industry 4.0/5.0 technologies, business incubation, industry collaboration, learner success and digital well-being.
Institutional accreditation today is therefore not merely an external evaluation exercise, it is a strategic management instrument for strengthening governance, improving institutional performance, benchmarking against regional and international standards and embedding a sustainable culture of quality. In this context, the five-day Regional Program on “Quality Assurance in TVET through APACC Accreditation: New APACC 2025 Framework” is designed to strengthen the capacity of TVET leaders, quality assurance managers, administrators, and faculty members from CPSC member countries to understand, apply, and institutionalize the APACC 2025 framework. Through expert inputs, theme papers, practical workshops, institutional self-assessment, peer learning, experience sharing, and action planning, participants will translate APACC benchmarks into practical institutional quality improvement and accreditation-readiness measures.
Through an integrated combination of keynote lectures, theme papers, practical workshops, institutional self-assessment exercises, peer learning, simulation activities, and action planning sessions, participants will gain both conceptual understanding and practical experience in applying APACC quality standards within their own institutions.
PROGRAM OBJECTIVES
The training program is designed to:
- Develop participants' understanding of the APACC Accreditation Framework 2025 and its role in strengthening institutional quality assurance and continuous improvement.
- Strengthen institutional capacities in implementing APACC quality standards, performance indicators, and evidence-based quality management systems.
- Enhance participants' competencies in conducting institutional self-assessment, gap analysis, evidence mapping, and accreditation preparation.
- Promote strategic leadership and organizational transformation through quality assurance, digitalization, sustainability, innovation, and stakeholder engagement.
- Equip participants with practical tools for preparing institutional accreditation action plans aligned with APACC quality benchmarks.
- Foster a culture of continuous quality improvement, institutional excellence, and regional peer learning across participating TVET institutions.
EXPECTED OUTPUTS
At the end of the training program, participants are expected to produce:
- Institutional Gap Analysis Matrix for participating TVET institutions.
- Institutional APACC Self-Assessment Report aligned with the APACC 2025 framework.
- Evidence Mapping Matrix covering all seven APACC Criteria.
- Draft Institutional Quality Improvement Action Plan / Roadmap for accreditation under the APACC 2025 framework.
EXPECTED OUTCOMES
By the completion of the program, participating institutions are expected to demonstrate:
- Improved institutional understanding of the APACC Accreditation Framework 2025 for institutional quality assurance and governance systems.
- Greater institutional preparedness for APACC accreditation under the 2025 framework.
- Improved documentation, evidence management, and an induced culture of data-driven decision-making practices.
- Stronger institutional strategic planning aligned with regional and international TVET quality benchmarks.
- Enhanced stakeholder engagement, industry collaboration, and learner support.
- Sustainable institutional quality culture based on continuous improvement and peer learning.
ANTICIPATED IMPACTS OF THE PROGRAM
The program is expected to contribute to the following institutional and regional impacts:
- Enhanced readiness of participating TVET institutions for APACC accreditation under the APACC Accreditation Framework 2025.
- Strengthened institutional quality assurance systems aligned with regional and international TVET quality benchmarks.
- Improved governance, strategic planning, evidence-based institutional management, and performance monitoring.
- Enhanced capability to implement KPI-based quality monitoring, institutional self-assessment, and continuous improvement mechanisms.
- Increased integration of digital transformation, sustainability, technopreneurship, and Industry 5.0 practices into institutional management and learning.
- Stronger partnerships with industry, employers, communities, alumni, and international organizations.
- Development of institutional quality cultures that support innovation, accountability, transparency, inclusion, and organizational excellence.
- Greater regional cooperation, international recognition, competitiveness, and mobility of TVET institutions and graduates.
PROGRAM CONTENTS
Special Lecture: Global Trends on Quality Assurance as a Strategic Driver for Institutional Excellence in TVET
Purpose: To establish a common understanding of institutional quality assurance as a strategic management function rather than a compliance exercise in light of global trends.
Focus:
- Future of global TVET quality assurance
- Institutional excellence through accreditation
- Transformation from compliance to continuous improvement
- APACC as a regional benchmark for TVET excellence
Theme Papers:
Theme Paper 1: APACC Accreditation Framework 2025: Transforming TVET Institutions from Compliance to Excellence
Focus:
- APACC 2025 framework as an Industry 5.0-compliant benchmarking tool for TVET quality assurance
- Overview of APACC's seven accreditation criteria
- KPI-based modern evaluation benchmarks
- APACC as a tool of institutional transformation
Theme Paper 2: APACC - Criterion I: Governance and Strategic Framework
Focus:
- Institutional Vision, Mission, Strategic Planning, Leadership, Governance
- Institutional Risk Management
- Institutional alignment with national and regional priorities
Theme Paper 3: APACC Criterion II: Teaching and Learning Management System
Focus:
- Curriculum, assessment, learning resources, faculty development
- Physical infrastructure, modern laboratories, and workshops
- Digital learning, AI, AR, VR, MR, and XR usage in blended and modern learning frameworks
Theme Paper 4: APACC Criterion III: Technopreneurship, Innovation, Research, and Training Needs Assessment
Focus:
- Institutional innovation ecosystem, research culture, entrepreneurship, business incubation, industry relevance
- Training Needs Assessment (TNA)—bridging national demand and supply gaps
Theme Paper 5: APACC Criterion IV: Human Resource Management
Focus:
- HR development, staff competency, and requisite advanced pedagogy skills
- Dual track for HR (faculty and administrative support staff), PCD
Theme Paper 6: APACC Criteria V: Budgetary Allocation of TVET Institutes
Focus:
- Institutional budgetary allocation (CAPEX, OPEX, etc.)
- Fiscal budgetary planning
- Income-generating funds through joint industrial projects and commercialization of technology
Theme paper 7: Criterion VI: Student Support Systems & Digital Health and Criterion VII: Industry-Academia-Community Linkages
Focus:
- Student services, guidance, employability, digital well-being, and inclusive learning
- Industry partnership, community engagement, and global networking
Workshops/Activities:
Workshop 1: SWOT Analysis of the Asia-Pacific TVET Ecosystem,
vis-a-vis APACC's Modern Benchmarks
Purpose: To
evaluate and compare existing TVET institutional practices across
participating countries with modern TVET practices and quality expectations
reflected in the APACC 2025 framework.
Workshop 2: APACC Criterion-Based Institutional Self-Assessment –
Criterion I: Governance and Strategic Framework
Purpose: To
enable participants to practically apply Criterion I of the APACC
Accreditation Framework 2025 to their own institutional context by reviewing
the relevant indicators and sub-indicators, assessing existing policies,
systems, practices, and evidence, identifying institutional strengths and
gaps, and developing priority areas and actionable improvement measures to
strengthen institutional performance and accreditation readiness.
Workshop 3: APACC Criterion-Based Institutional Self-Assessment –
Criterion II: Teaching and Learning Management
System
Purpose: To enable participants to practically apply
Criterion II of the APACC Accreditation Framework 2025 to their own
institutional context by reviewing the relevant indicators and sub-indicators,
assessing curriculum development, assessment systems, learning resources,
faculty development, digital and blended learning practices, and the
application of emerging technologies such as AI, AR, VR, MR, and XR, and
identifying institutional strengths, gaps, and priority areas for improvement.
Workshop 4: APACC Criterion-Based Institutional Self-Assessment –
Criterion III: Technopreneurship, Innovation, Research, and Training Needs
Assessment
Purpose: To enable participants to practically apply
Criterion III of the APACC Accreditation Framework 2025 to their own
institutional context by reviewing the relevant indicators and sub-indicators,
assessing institutional practices related to technopreneurship, innovation,
research, industry-responsive initiatives, and training needs assessment, and
identifying strengths, gaps, and actionable measures to enhance institutional
capacity and responsiveness.
Workshop 5: APACC Criterion-Based Institutional Self-Assessment –
Criterion IV: Human Resource Management
Purpose: To enable
participants to practically apply Criterion IV of the APACC Accreditation
Framework 2025 to their own institutional context by reviewing the relevant
indicators and sub-indicators, assessing institutional policies, systems, and
practices related to human resource planning, recruitment, deployment,
professional development, performance management, staff engagement, and
employee welfare, and identifying strengths, gaps, and priority areas for
improvement.
Workshop 6: APACC Criterion-Based Institutional Self-Assessment –
Criterion V: Budgetary Allocation and Resource
Management
Purpose: To enable participants to practically apply
Criterion V of the APACC Accreditation Framework 2025 to their own
institutional context by reviewing the relevant indicators and sub-indicators,
assessing budget planning, financial accountability, resource mobilization,
infrastructure and equipment management, procurement, and allocation of
resources to institutional priorities, and identifying strengths, gaps, and
actionable measures to enhance financial sustainability and effective resource
management.
Workshop 7: APACC Criterion-Based Institutional Self-Assessment –
Criterion VI: Student Support and Digital Health along with Criterion VII:
Industry–Academic–Community Linkages
Purpose: To enable
participants to practically apply Criteria VI and VII of the APACC
Accreditation Framework 2025 to their own institutional context by reviewing
the relevant indicators and sub-indicators, assessing systems for student
support, well-being, and holistic development, as well as institutional
linkages with industry, employers, government, communities, alumni, and
international partners, and identifying strengths, gaps, and priority areas
for strengthening stakeholder engagement and learner support systems.
ACTION PLANNING: Regional Institutional Roadmap - APACC Accreditation
under the 2025 Framework
Purpose: To consolidate the learning
from the program into a practical institutional roadmap and action plan that
will strengthen continuous quality improvement and accelerate readiness for
APACC accreditation under the APACC Accreditation Framework 2025.
- Review Institutional Readiness:
- Consolidate findings from the seven APACC criteria and identify institutional strengths and improvement areas.
- Set Institutional Strategic Priorities:
- Identify short-, medium-, and long-term priorities for institutional quality enhancement.
- Develop Quality Improvement Initiatives:
- Formulate strategic projects and interventions for each APACC criterion.
- Prepare the APACC Accreditation Roadmap:
- Define objectives, activities, responsibilities, timelines, and expected outputs.
- Develop Key Performance Indicators (KPIs):
- Establish measurable performance indicators and success targets for implementation.
- Prepare the Evidence and Monitoring Plan:
- Identify documentary evidence, monitoring mechanisms, and progress tracking tools.
- Present the Institutional Action Plan:
- Present the APACC Accreditation Roadmap for peer review, expert feedback, and institutional commitment.
- Prepare a tentative plan (next 2–3 years) for APACC accreditation of participating TVET institutions.
APPROACH AND METHODOLOGY
This Online Regional Program will adopt a practice-oriented, interactive, and output-focused learning approach. Expert inputs will be followed by structured online workshops, group work, case analysis, guided planning exercises, peer review, experience sharing, and action planning. The virtual learning design connects the background and rationale, objectives, and expected outcomes with practical outputs that participants can apply in their own TVET institutional quality assurance and planning processes.
The methodology will include:
- Online virtual expert-led theme papers and special lecture sessions.
- Hands-on virtual workshops, breakout-group work, and collaborative activities.
- Case-based discussion of strategic quality assurance and institutional planning challenges in TVET.
- Peer review, experience sharing, facilitated reflection, and cross-country learning.
- Preparation and presentation of institutional or regional strategic action plans.
PARTICIPANTS’ PROFILE
The program is intended for eighty (80) to ninety (90) participants from CPSC member countries, partners, APACC-accredited institutions, and the wider Asia-Pacific TVET community of countries. The target group may include TVET leaders, quality assurance personnel, heads of department, institutional focal officials for quality management systems, accreditation coordinators, senior faculty and administrators, policymakers, regulators, and representatives of national TVET accreditation, registration, and qualification authorities.
DATE AND VENUE
Date: 9–13 November 2026
Dalivery
Mode: Virtual / Online
Venue/Platform: Zoom
Virtual Platform
Time Schedule: 10:30 AM to 4:30 PM
Philippine Standard Time
FACILITIES REQUIREMENTS
To conduct the program smoothly, the following virtual facilities and arrangements are required:
- Laptop/desktop computers with webcams and microphones for participants and resource persons.
- Stable, high-speed internet connection with suitable backup connectivity.
- Zoom platform with breakout room, screen sharing, polling, chat, recording, and collaborative functions.
- Access to digital presentation materials, APACC-2025 instruments, templates, worksheets, and self-assessment tools.
- Virtual collaborative tools / whiteboards for group work, brainstorming, evidence mapping, and action planning.
- Access to CPSC OnCOURSE or designated online learning resources, where applicable.
- Quiet learning environment and timely submission of institutional documents/evidence required for workshop exercises.
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