Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications (HKCAAVQ), formerly named as Hong Kong Council for Academic Accreditation (HKCAA), is a statutory body established under the HKCAAVQ Ordinance, Cap. 1150. With the need to expand the Council’s scope of services to cover accreditation of vocational qualifications underpinning the implementation of the Qualifications Framework (QF), the said Ordinance came into effect on 1 October 2007 through legislative amendment of the HKCAA Ordinance. Since then, the Council was renamed as HKCAAVQ.

By virtue of the Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications (AAVQ) Ordinance, Cap. 592, which was fully operative starting 5 May 2008, the HKCAAVQ is empowered to be the Accreditation Authority to undertake the quality assurance for the development of the QF. It is entrusted with the responsibility of assuring the quality of qualifications and their associated learning programmes and providers recognized under the QF. Furthermore, HKCAAVQ also takes up its statutory role as the Qualifications Register (QR) Authority to administer the QR.

For detailed information about the HKCAAVQ, please visit its website : http://www.hkcaavq.edu.hk.