Brief Introduction to the Academy

Asia Pacific Retail Academy (APRA), a Malaysian incorporated business entity is fully-owned by People Skills Asia Private Limited (PSA), Singapore. The latter is an organization which specializes in developing, and providing high quality management development programmes for middle and senior managers and executives in the distributive trades and retail industry. Since its inception, both APRA and PSA had jointly developed many highly reputable and internationally recognized retail management development programmes in the Asia Pacific Region. Often, these programmes developed in collaborations with renowned and reputable global retail learning institutions such, Oxford Institute of Retail Management, Oxford University, UK, Institute for Retail Studies, University of Stirling, UK, Food Marketing Department, St Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, US and the renowned Retail Management Institute, Santa Clara University, California, USA.

Approved Overseas Centre for OTHM

APRA is also an approved centre for OTHM which is a UK based Awarding Organisation regulated by Ofqual (Office of the Qualifications and Examinations Regulation). OTHM have a network of numerous delivery centres globally to deliver our qualifications in many academic disciplines such as Accounting and Finance, Business Management, Education and Training, Health and Social Care Management, Human Resource Management, Information Technology, Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Occupational Health and Safety, Project Management, Public Administration, Risk Management, Strategic Management and Leadership, Strategic Marketing and Tourism and Hospitality Management

APRA always aim to develop as an organisation that is forward-thinking in order to support professions and industry by providing excellent qualifications and skills specific training programmes that contribute for a highly qualified and experienced workforce for a number of industry sectors.