Training content and certification by professional bodies is outside the jurisdiction of the National Accreditation Board (NAB, Mr Kojo Asare-Bediako, the Executive Director of the Institute of Human Resource Management Practitioners, Ghana.
He said NAB’s authority in these areas is limited to tertiary institutions.
Mr Kojo Asare-Bediako, said this in answer to questions at the launch of the Institute’s Professional Certification Programme (PCP) at the Ho Polytechnic.
He explained that the Institute’s checks at the NAB prior to commencement of its certification programme had confirmed this position.
Mr Asare-Bediako said what professional bodies required was the President’s Charter but this was not a necessary requirement to make their certificates authentic and acceptable.
He said the acquisition of a professional Charter could take several decades or more “because politicians are slow in considering many things and might not even consider the award
of a charter as a priority”.
Mr Asare-Bediako said it was only recently that a world renowned professional body in Great Britain received the Queen’s Charter.
He said the need for high professional standards and performance in all fields could not wait indefinitely hence the need for professional bodies to take the initiative to groom practitioners with or without the consent of politicians.
Mr Asare-Bediako said those who had acquired tertiary qualifications for example in Human Resource Management (HRM) needed to acquire professional training to put them in shape to solve human resource problems in work places.