PEQAB, an acronym for the Post-Secondary Education Quality Assessment Board, is an agency that operates in Ontario, Canada

Ontario

Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

 and advises the provincial Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities regarding applications to the ministry for consent to grant a degree

Academic degree

An academic degree is a position and title within a college or university that is usually awarded in recognition of the recipient having either satisfactorily completed a prescribed course of study or having conducted a scholarly endeavour deemed worthy of his or her admission to the degree...

under the terms of the Post-Secondary Education Choice and Excellence Act, 2000.