Accreditation of an HEI in the Philippines merits autonomy, while other forms of quality assessment merit funding and subsidy, as opposed to what other countries practice. ACCREDITATION IN PHILIPPINES Integrated Report Reorganization Plan - Congressional Commission on Education (EDCOM) recommended to establish FAAP and CHED by Virtue of R.A. no. b.3 Level Il Re-Accredited Status: schools which have been granted re-accreditation status for a period of three or five years by any of the FAAP member agencies and duly certified by the Federation. Under CHED's Revised Policies and Guidelines on Voluntary Accreditation in Aid of Quality and Excellence and Higher Education, there are four levels of program accreditation, with Level IV being the highest. Herminio Dagohoy, O.P., Rector: España, Manila Effectivity Date: August 2012-2017 Level 1 BS Psychology Level IV 1st RA November 2016-2021 It is both a process and a result.. As a process, it is a form of peer review in which an association of schools and colleges establishes sets of criteria and procedures to encourage high maintenance of standards of education among its affiliate members. Fr. Paascu, Acscu-AAI, Pacucoa and Aaccup have been federated into the “Federation of Accrediting Agencies of the Philippines (FAAP). In a recent ruling, all FAAP-accredited schools are automatically granted an IQuAME rating, due to the ‘strong’ tradition of non-sectorial QA (Defensor, 2011; Institutional Accreditation and Assessment Office, n.d.; Philippines, 2008). All of the institutions accredited by these three agencies certified by FAAP are private institutions. b.3 Level Il Re-Accredited Status: schools which have been granted re-accreditation status for a period of three or five years by any of the FAAP member agencies and duly certified by the Federation. 13 Customs Administration Level III RA December 2015-2020 Institutions that were Granted Institutional Accreditation: University of Santo Tomas: Rev. Instead, voluntary accreditation, like that in the United States, has attempted to fill the void with the Federation of Accrediting Associations of the Philippines (FAAP) leading the way. The association started out as an informal social group in 1957. Formally organized in 1964 as the SPNP, it later became the Filipino American Association of Pittsburgh, Inc. (FAAP) in 2000 when it was incorporated as a non-profit organization. By Rusieljs G. Lunasco The FAAP has granted Institutional Re-Accreditation status to Central Philippine as recommended by the ACSCU-ACI. Philippine Hoteliers International Center for Hospitality Education, Inc. Philippine Merchant Marine School, Las Piñas Philippine Normal University Main Philippine Rehabilitation Institute Foundation, Inc. Philippine School of Interior Design-Ahlen Institute, Inc. PNTC Colleges – Manila Polytechnic University of the Philippines Institutional accreditation is the highest certification that can be given to an educational institution. As aforementioned, accreditation of individual programs and/or institutions is voluntary on the part of the HEIs, albeit being highly encouraged by CHED (Padua, 2003). The Filipino-American Association of Pittsburgh. Accreditation is a concept of self-regulation which focuses on self-study evaluation and on the continuing improvement of educational quality.