6 April 2026, Serdang  – Inauguration Exercise of Internal Expert Assessment Panel (APP) - New Changes in the Curriculum recommended by the Institutional Audit Section, Academic Quality Assurance, Center for Quality Assurance (CQA) has witnessed the participation of 23 Academic Staff consisting of Internal APPs who have been appointed by CQA as the program audit Assessor Panel and newly appointed CQA Associate Fellows. The training session held on April 6 2026 at Mini Auditorium 1, Deputy Chancellor's Building (Research and Innovation), UPM was delivered by Prof. Madya Dr. Noor Syamilah Zakaria, KB, PA (CQA Director) and Dr. Zufarzaana Zulkeflee (Deputy Director of CQA Academic Quality Assurance). Among the contents of the exercise is explaining the current status of UPM Internal APP inaugurations after the Malaysian Eligibility Agency (MQA) made new decisions regarding the inauguration of external APPs by universities with self-accredited status for the assessment of Provisional Accreditation, Full Accreditation and Maintenance/Compliance Audits starting June 20 2024. Apart from that, also shared were the findings of the external APP during the UPM program accreditation assessment carried out in 2025 and the latest MQA regulations as well as new changes in the curriculum which aims to enable participants to take the opportunity to carry out continuous improvements to their respective programs. Through this training session, it was also explained the direction of UPM internal APPs if they were interested in being appointed as APPs by other universities. In fact, the inclusion of UPM's internal APP in this training session provides a positive sign of the willingness and potential of academic residents to continue to contribute as Expert Assessment Panels in assessing accredited programs and improving the university curriculum.
	News written by		: Aidawati Ramali | Institutional Audit Section| Center for Quality Assurance

Date of Input: 22/05/2026 | Updated: 07/06/2026 | aidawati