Academic Excellence in Technical Education through Accreditation and Quality Award Model

This paper identifies the quality related issues in Higher Technical Education in India due to exponential growth in the number of colleges and students enrolled in last 15 years. This has resulted in degradation of quality particularly because of acute shortage of the talented faculty resources. Therefore, it identifies accreditation as a quality enhancement strategy listing the difficulties and problems associated with the National Accreditation processes through NAAC and NBA. It suggests an alternative rout through National Quality Award Model, which can be used for the purpose of not only accreditation, but also combines benchmarking, self-assessment and peer assessment. As a specific case of UP Technical University Academic Excellence Model being implemented in UPTU. It describes the detailed model structure and its formats and possible application of the model to enhance the quality is outlined.