Course accreditation is the process of assessment and official approval of a course plus its associated qualification, to indicate that the course meets particular requirements defined by the VQA. The Course Accreditation process ensures that the design and the rules and regulations of a course meet quality standards. An application for accreditation is judged against the Standards for course accreditation in the Vanuatu Quality Assurance Framework.
Providers must be registered before they can apply for course accreditation.
Having a course accredited does not mean that the provider can deliver the course. A provider can only deliver an accredited course if it has Approval to Deliver this course. Accreditation is applied for by a registered provider, but an accredited course can in principle be delivered by any provider, as long as this provider has the appropriate resources.
The application process for course accreditation consists of two steps:
To apply for accreditation of an overseas course, go to: Accreditation of Overseas Courses.
Once a course is accredited, the provider still needs to apply for Approval to Deliver the course, if they want to deliver the course as well. This is not part of the Course Accreditation process. For information on this process, see:
Also after a number of years, the Course Accreditation will expire and will need to be renewed. For more information, see:
If you have lost your original qualification certificate, VQA may be able to provide confirmation of the studies you completed. This will only be the case if VQA issued the original document, or, if you did not receive a certificate from your provider, when they recorded your results in the VQA Qualifications Registry.
Please be aware that
- There is a fee to pay when submitting your application form for obtaining a copy of your qualification.
- The application form is available at the front office of the VQA or downloadable at this link.
Before you submit an application
- Please check whether your original document came from VQA. If it did it will have had the VQA seal on it on the bottom and it will have been signed by the VQA CEO. If not check with your provider if VQA holds your provider's records and they entered your results in the Vanuatu Qualifications Registry.
- Fill in the application form. You can collect it from the office of the VQA or download it here. Make sure you submit it with the required documents listed in the form.
Submit your application
Submit your application form with the fees applicable at the front office of the VQA.
After submitting your application
VQA will contact you when the copy is ready to be collected. Please put the address below on the envelope when submitting your application:
Vanuatu Qualifications AuthorityP.O Box 153
Port-Vila
Vanuatu
Re: Application form for copy of qualification
Subcategories
Provider details
Registered Providers
This list is sorted alphabetically. You can click on any of the PSET Providers' name to see more details.
Course details
Accredited Courses
The list of courses is quite long, so we are showing only 25 on each page. If you have a good Internet connection, you can select to see more than the 25 courses per page. Or you can go to the bottom of this page and click to go to the next section of the list.
The list is sorted first by area (like Agriculture, Aquaculture, Building and Construction, Business, etc), then by level (Certificate I, Certificate II, ...) and finally by specialization. The Courses are listed in alphabetical order.