An efficient National Accreditation Council in any country is an imperative body to safeguard students not only against the influx of technology-driven programmes but the increasing number of ‘diploma mills’ around.? At least this is according to Curtis Floyd, a Director attached to The Accreditation Council of Trinidad and Tobago (ACTT) who was yesterday engaged in facilitating a quality enhancement workshop intended to help improve the efficiency of the National Accreditation Council.Incidentally, the National Centre for Education Resource Development (NCERD) venued forum was organised by the local Accreditation Council.Curtis FloydFloyd during an interview with this publication yesterday emphasised that since education is something that oftentimes requires high investment,Air Max Fury Ireland, there is a need to ensure that value for money is realised. In fact,Scarpe Adidas Nmd Scontate, he underscored that any student pursuing higher education would want to know that after completing their programme of choice, the resulting certificate will be accepted both nationally and internationally. In this regard,Air Max 270 Cheap, he noted that students would therefore want to ensure that their qualification has been earned from a legitimate institution.It is for this reason, Floyd underscored that a National Accreditation Council is “extremely,Air Max Classic Bw Ireland, extremely important” particularly given the existing state of affairs in the world as it relates to education. According to him “we have had too many horror stories of persons spending lots of money, spending years studying only to find out on completion that their certificate is of no value and nobody is willing to accept it.”Moreover, the ACTT Director, who is charged with Accreditation and Quality Enhancement in Trinidad, emphasised that the role of any Accreditation Council is to function as “watch dogs” by keeping the interest of students in mind and ensuring that whatever programmes they are pursuing in institutions are legitimate.Speaking at the opening of the forum,Adidas Yeezy Shop Online, Minister of Education Priya Manickchand echoed an appeal to the organisations represented at the forum, that require the services of the National Accreditation Council, to embrace the way forward that will encourage the efficacy of the Council’s operation. “Here is the day to change that expectation (where) irrespective of what you put out you will be registered,Yeezy Scarpe Scontate, you will be accredited or you will be certified. It is not going to happen!” asserted the Minister.She also alluded to the fact that the move to engage the various organisations that provide educational services was premised on the fact that there is evident potential locally for the offering of quality education services. “If we didn’t think that you could provide quality service you wouldn’t be in a room where we are helping you to be able to do that…we would just dismiss you as failures and move on to the next set of people who we believe can,” added the Minister.And according to the ACTT Director, Trinidad’s Accreditation Council was certainly not the best when it was established in 2004 and commenced operation the following year. “We too needed the support from the higher learning commissions and we seized the opportunities for training and we have grown; we have benefited tremendously,Air Max 270 Wholesale,” said Floyd.It is for this reason, he said, that “we are only too willing now to share the information that we have to assist the Accreditation Council here in Guyana and any of the other Accreditation Councils within the Region.”