ROLE OF ICT IN REVIEW OF ACCREDITATION, ASSESSMENT AND ACADEMIC AUDIT IN TODAY'S HIGHER EDUCATION

:The ICTis the need of the hour for quality assurance in Higher Education as itfastens the process of assessment and audit with greater transparency. It is a model thatcan be used in assessing the quality of education in Colleges of the University. Theprocedure of this study uses the techniques of research and development with thefollowing steps: (i) development of ICT model (ii) analysis of the model impact on theperformance of the affiliated colleges. The overall quality assurance frameworkfollowed by National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) incorporateselements of all the three basic approaches to quality assurance – accreditation,assessment and academic audit. NAAC accredits institutions and certifies for theeducational quality of the institution. It also goes beyond the certification and providesan assessment that classifies an institution on a nine-point scale indicating where theinstitution stands in the quality continuum. This paper focus on the first two criterionsidentified by NAAC to serve as the basis for its assessment procedure: CurricularAspects Criterion, Teaching Learning and Evaluation