International Practices in Assessment, Accreditation and Quality Standards in Higher Education

It is an era of modernization and technology where education forms the foremost important pillars for building and growth of the higher education. Looking into the present scenario of modernization and technology-based education system, the need for accreditation is becoming a benchmark in the current education system. If we look around us, we see everyone in a state of trying to compete with the other one. In order to fight this competition prevailing in the surroundings one has to be much more updated, innovative, modern, tech based and automated as well. This wide gap can only be filled by creating a regulatory, reliable and advanced framework through accreditation in educational institutions.

Accreditation is a kind of quality benchmark on the basis of which the competency of an academic institution is assessed. Schools and colleges which will have a good setup and frame get awarded with accreditation and are able to survive and sustain in the present world. In this paper, the international practices in assessment and accreditation have been discussed in detail. We feel that by this kind of study more and more colleges will be encouraged to go for accreditations if they find some concrete improvements.