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

:<br>The ICTis the need of the hour for quality assurance in Higher Education as it<br>fastens the process of assessment and audit with greater transparency. It is a model that<br>can be used in assessing the quality of education in Colleges of the University. The<br>procedure of this study uses the techniques of research and development with the<br>following steps: (i) development of ICT model (ii) analysis of the model impact on the<br>performance of the affiliated colleges. The overall quality assurance framework<br>followed by National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) incorporates<br>elements of all the three basic approaches to quality assurance – accreditation,<br>assessment and academic audit. NAAC accredits institutions and certifies for the<br>educational quality of the institution. It also goes beyond the certification and provides<br>an assessment that classifies an institution on a nine-point scale indicating where the<br>institution stands in the quality continuum. This paper focus on the first two criterions<br>identified by NAAC to serve as the basis for its assessment procedure: Curricular<br>Aspects Criterion, Teaching Learning and Evaluation