The International Association for Quality Assurance in Pre-Tertiary and Higher Education (QAHE) has been featured on Programming Insider in an article by Marc Berman dated 4 September 2026, titled “How Recognised Is QAHE Really—and Why People Treat It as Trustworthy.” The piece examines what international accreditation can and cannot mean, and why institutions and the public treat a QAHE listing as a checkable quality signal rather than as a global licence.
The article’s starting point is practical. When a school claims “international accreditation,” the first questions should be who the accreditor is, how other bodies treat that accreditor, and what the mark is allowed to support. Programming Insider notes that QAHE publishes a public list of accredited institutions at www.qahe.org, and that only the reviewed entity is covered. Related companies, brands, campuses, and subsidiaries are not accredited by implication.
On recognition, the article describes QAHE’s standing as relational rather than universal. It points to documented cooperation and memoranda of understanding with agencies and networks in several regions, including ANACEC in Moldova, ARIA in Uzbekistan, IKCA in Kazakhstan, Elbaasy and BILIM-STANDARD in Kyrgyzstan, ACE in Indonesia, FIBAA in Germany, and GNACOPS in Ghana, together with associations concerned with private universities, distance learning, and scholarly recognition. Those arrangements, the article argues, place QAHE reviews inside a wider quality-assurance conversation that third parties can understand—even though national regulators remain free to apply their own rules.
Programming Insider is equally clear about limits, and QAHE welcomes that clarity. The article states that QAHE does not hold government endorsement in every country, does not claim to award degrees worldwide, and does not replace professional registration or diploma-recognition procedures in a student’s own jurisdiction. Accreditation is time-limited, subject to renewal, and can be withheld or removed. Public complaints may be taken into account. An accreditor that promised to solve every recognition problem, the article concludes, would be overpromising.
QAHE regards the feature as a useful public explanation of its model: a public directory, scoped decisions, partnership-based recognition, and a quality-assurance role that is distinct from the legal power to grant qualifications. Readers are invited to read the full article at https://programminginsider.com/how-recognised-is-qahe-really-and-why-people-treat-it-as-trustworthy/ and to verify any institutional claim against the official list at www.qahe.org.
