BECOMING A SIGNATORY. C.
4.1 During the period of provisional status, it shall be open to all signatories to visit the applicant at their own cost, but this is not a requirement, nor part of the Assessment process towards becoming a signatory.
BECOMING A SIGNATORY. B.2.2.1. The criteria for admission to and maintenance of signatory status in an Accord are stated in Schedule B2. Applicants are recommended to follow the advice stated in the guidelines in Section C.4.
B.2.2.2. An application for admission to signatory status to an Accord must:
a) Include a self-study report containing information demonstrating that they meet the criteria stated in Schedule B2, and a gap analysis of the applicant’s accreditation criteria against the Graduate Attribute exemplars;
b) Include Accreditation statistics and other requested information listed in the template provided by the Secretariat;
c) If mentoring is required, at least one letter of support by a mentor: i Made from first-hand knowledge of the applicant’s accreditation system and operating context; and
d) Be prepared in the English language;
e) Be received complete in all respects to the Secretariat no later than 120 days before the IEAM at which the applicant wishes the application to be considered.
B.2.2.3. The application received will be processed as follows:
a) The Secretariat must distribute the application to all Accord signatories no later than 90 days from the start of IEAM;
b) The signatories must review the application and provide questions/comments no later than 45 days prior to IEAM;
c) Questions/comments received shall be forwarded to the applicant no later than 30 days prior to IEAM;
d) Arrangement of three Assessors to visit the organization’s jurisdiction shall commence upon voting in the IEAM by all eligible voting accord signatories with two-thirds majority.
e) Assessors must not be from signatories which have served as nominators and/or mentors of the applicant.
B.2.2.4. The organisation applying to become a signatory must provide the Assessors with reasonable notice of proposed visit dates, which must all be no later than 150 days prior to the IEAM at which the organisation wishes its application for upgrading to come a signatory to be considered.
B.2.2.5. The Assessors and the organisation seeking upgrading must, without unreasonable delay, jointly develop a proposed assessment programme, which will normally include visits to at least 2 education providers, including a total of at least 4 programmes undergoing evaluation. If possible the programme will be co-ordinated as part of a single visit to the jurisdiction by all three Assessors, but organisations operating low volume accreditation or recognition systems may need to arrange for more than one vis...
BECOMING A SIGNATORY. B.2.2.1. The criteria for admission to and maintenance of signatory status in an Accord are stated in Schedule B2. Applicants are recommended to follow the advice stated in the guidelines in Section C.4.
B.2.2.2. An application for admission to signatory status to an Accord must:
a) Include a self-study report containing information demonstrating that they meet the criteria stated in Schedule B2, and a gap analysis of the applicant’s accreditation criteria against the Graduate Attribute exemplars;
b) Include Accreditation statistics and other requested information listed in the template provided by the Secretariat;
c) If mentoring is required, at least one letter of support by a mentor: i Made from first-hand knowledge of the applicant’s accreditation system and operating context; and
