• Accreditation and Validation
▪	The process of accreditation and validation administered by the Open University Validation Services (OUVS) is of paramount significance to the operation of the AOU. In addition to other measures of quality assurance, such as the employment of external examiners, the accreditation process serves the AOU well in promoting its own markers of excellence.
▪	During the initial years of program offerings, the AOU will utilize course materials produced by the UKOU for three of its programs: English Language and Literature, Information Technology and Computing, and Business Administration. Therefore, the AOU intends to uphold quality standards of program implementation and monitoring in accordance with the requirements of accreditation and validation (OUVS) throughout the initial and succeeding stages of program development and implementation.

The AOU realizes the rigor involved in an accreditation task, and intends to match it with a corresponding rigor of preparation for the same.