1Dean, Department of Management Studies, New Horizon College of Engineering, Bangalore, Karnataka State, 560 103. Research Guide, Jain University, India
2Professor, Department of Management Studies, New Horizon College of Engineering, Bangalore, Karnataka State, 560 103
Accreditation is the process of monitoring, assessing and evaluating the standards and quality of the education a student receives at a college, university, or other institution of higher learning. Accreditation provides belief to the students that the education they are paying for is valuable and worthwhile. There are various organisations in India and internationally which accredit institution and their programmes 1. Faculty profile and their research publications help the institution to get accredited. In India where we have currently 4800 business schools producing over 140,000 management graduates every year (Cygnus, 2010) 2. Imagine the number of management faculty who are part of these institutions as facilitators of management education. When the question comes of accreditation, in India there is only one organisation, that is, AIMA, which accredits management faculty for their due service in management 3. The proposal is to facilitate additional dialogue of standards and rigorous evaluation criteria within the context of maintaining high academic contribution by faculty. The faculty is academically qualified, but one also looks at professionally qualified to have overall high quality standards in all the academic components. The accreditation principle lies on the platform that, apart from degree, multiple categories of academic activities and/or outcomes that may support qualification including professional activity, professional development, intellectual contributions, et al. are the key to demonstrate the credentials as quality faculty.
This paper emphasises that with the accreditation of institutes and programmes, there is also a strong need of faculty accreditation at a larger level, with other reputable organisations, committees, and competent authority on higher education taking the initiative of accrediting management faculty, which establish and certifies them as a quality teacher in the field of management education. The present paper will elaborate upon the need for accreditation for management faculty. A model will be developed for accrediting management faculty for Karnataka state. It also looks into procedure and process how the accreditation can be done and the methodology to be followed.
Accreditation, Performance Measurements, Evaluation
