The Quality Assurance and Planning Office (QAPO) of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), in partnership with the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC), has held a training workshop on the Accreditation Management Information System (AMIS).

The workshop forms part of GTEC’s nationwide transition from a manual accreditation process to a fully digital platform aimed at streamlining institutional operations and improving efficiency across tertiary institutions in Ghana.

The exercise is expected to equip Heads of Departments with the skills required to use the AMIS platform effectively, enabling faster accreditation processes and seamless engagement with the new system. Participants were taken through the online application portal, document processing, file organisation, system access and programme uploads.

Professor Daniel Agyei Boateng, Dean of QAPO, said the office coordinates all programme accreditation activities at KNUST, adding that the University currently runs about 650 academic programmes.

He explained that the traditional accreditation model required departments to develop their programmes and obtain internal approvals before submitting documentation to the Academic Board and then to QAPO for onward accreditation by GTEC.

“QAPO has been sending hard copies of over 50 kilograms of documents every two weeks or monthly to Accra. It costs money to print, and they need about three to four copies of each programme accreditation,” he said.

According to him, the migration to AMIS will eliminate several logistical challenges.

“They take monthly trips to Accra and the risks of carrying documents will be avoided. Payments are made to show evidence,” he said, noting that the new system will allow programme accreditation processes to be completed entirely online.