Who we are —
and how our mark is governed.
PQUAL is an independent accreditation and certification body for training institutes, courses and trainers. We review quality against a published standard, and we run the public registry where anyone can check — free, in seconds — that a badge or certificate is real.
Impartiality, by structure
Decisions are separated from revenue
Assessors recommend; only the decisions function approves, rejects, suspends or revokes. Nobody involved in selling partnerships takes part in assessment decisions, and approval rates are published — a mark everyone gets is a mark worth nothing.
Everything is logged
Every assessment is scored against a published, versioned framework with evidence notes; every status change is recorded in an append-only audit log; revocations are published, dated and never silently removed.
Appeals with independent review
Rejected or revoked entities get reason codes, a 30-day appeal window, and a reviewer independent of the original assessment — published policy, time-bound SLAs.
Aligned with international practice
PQUAL's operations align with the impartiality principles of ISO/IEC 17024 and ISO 21001, and our certificate data model tracks Open Badges 3.0 / W3C Verifiable Credentials for portability.
Standards & Advisory Board
The framework's content and revisions are governed by an independent board of industry experts.
PQUAL is an independent, private quality-assurance body. PQUAL approval is not a government accreditation, licence, or academic degree.