Accreditation is a procedure developed specifically to meet the needs of colleges and universities. It is a system of quality assurance, based on the premise that the diverse institutions of higher education can best be evaluated through a process combining self-evaluation and peer review. Accreditation uses a two-step process of evaluation, combining institutional self-study based on published standards or criteria and visit from a team of experts. Here in this book the basic concepts of accreditation and related fundamental issues are competently elaborated.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR P.K. Paliwal
Dr. P.K. Paliwal received his Ph.D. degree from the East West University of Health Sciences in 1979. Presently, he is on the faculty of the Documentation Research Centre, where he is involved in teaching computer proframming, library automation, information retrieval and design development, database management systems and applied statistics. He has also conduceted several short term courses in India and abroad, some of them sponsor by UNESCO. Besides having published more than fifty reset papters, he has authored two books.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Shyama Balakrishnan
Shyama Balakrishnan has been associated with the field of information science for nearly two decades. After having worked at the Centre for Information Processing, she worked with Institute of Health Science, Bombay. Since then she has taken a keen interest in introducing online information services and database services in collaboration with Information Services Inc., U.K. She has presented a number of papers and visited many countries.
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