ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT OF ACCREDITATION AND QUALITY ENHANCEMENT

Department of Accreditation comes under School of Accreditation and Quality Enhancement. It is one of the most important school of Children’s University, Gandhinagar.

The main focus of this department is to enable the school and higher education teachers to learn the process of assessment of the institution so that they can participate in Institutional accreditation process and contribute in quality enhancement of the respective institution. In order to do so, school of accreditation has developed three certificate courses.

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These courses are:

• Excellence in Higher Education
• Excellence in School Education
• Research Methodology in Social Science

‘Excellence in Higher Education’ and ‘Excellence in School Education’ courses intend:

• To develop internal mechanism of the institution for continuous quality enhancement
• To increase credibility and confidence among stakeholders
• To identify the gaps and bridge them whenever and wherever required
• To enter into MOU with local and global institutions
• To take affiliation or certification, grant etc. from various channels
• To remain competitive with local and global institutions

‘Research Methodology in Social Science’ course will be helpful to students:

• To qualify NET/SLET exam & Ph.D. M.Phil. Entrance and coursework exams
• To acquaint with research report writing ability
• To enhance employability in PG department of higher education institutions
• To become freelance researcher
• To broaden the outlook towards the problems of society.

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SCHOOL OF ACCREDITATION AND QUALITY ENHANCEMENT

From the Desk of HOD

School of accreditation and quality enhancement is one of the most important schools of children’s university. Its Prime focus is to enhance the quality of education at higher education level as well as at school level. The school offers following part time certificate courses.

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	Certificate Courses	Mode	Nature	duration	Intake	Credits/ Marks	Hours of the course		Target Group
1	Excellence in Higher Education	Face to face/online mode	Part time	One semester   (6 Months)	30	12	Theory:	Practical	Anybody who is interested in quality enhancement of higher education preferably any teaching/ admin staff or qualified to be working in college)
							45	90
2	Excellence in School Education	Face to face/online mode	Part time	One semester (6 Months)	30	12	Theory:	Practical	Anybody who is interested in quality enhancement of School education preferably any teaching/ admin staff or qualified to be working in School)
							45	90
3	Research Methodo-logy in Social Science	Face to face/online mode	Part time	One semester   (6 Months)	30	12	Theory:	Practical	Any PG students (M.Ed., M.A. Education, M.A. Psychology, MSW etc..) M.Phil., Ph.D. students of any social science

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1. Excellence in Higher Education:

This course is intended to transact this course to higher educational institutions including University, affiliated colleges, constituent and autonomous colleges or any other higher education institution that is willing to excel in higher education to enable them to acquaint with assessment and accreditation process and parameters. This course will also enable them to understand the criteria, key indicators and grading pattern of assessment and accreditation. It will also help them to do self assessment of the institution they are associated with. The last step would be to keep up the process of quality enhancement continuously upgraded.

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2. Excellence in School Education:

This course is intended to transact this course to any sort of School affiliated with any board to enable it to acquaint with assessment and accreditation process and parameters. This course will also enable the personnel of the school to understand the criteria, key indicators and grading pattern of assessment and accreditation. It will also help them to do self assessment of the school they are associated with. The last step would be to keep up the process of quality enhancement continuously upgraded.

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3. Research Methodology in Social Science:

This course will be instrumental to get sound command over research methodology since the inception of the ‘identification of the research problem, construction of objectives and hypothesis, sampling and population, construction of tools for data collection and data analysis’ etc..This course would be resourceful to understand them ‘report writing skills’ as well. It will also help them to qualify NET/GSLET exams and excel in Research courses of M.Phil. and Ph.D. coursework.

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HOD

Prof. Sanjay Gupta
School of Accreditation and Quality Enhancement
Children’s University
Sector-20, Near Chh-5
Gandhinagar

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