Accreditation of degree programmes
In my first meeting with the academic staff of my new university, the University of Lincoln , there was an exciting discussion about accreditation for our teaching program. Accreditation concerns an official assessment of our teaching program by external institutions with authority. I can think of industry and government. Therefore, when we think of accreditation, we think of making our teaching standards meet agreed-upon requirements. There are several other benefits of accreditation: It is an independent validation that our program attends high standards set for a profession It is a framework for continuous regulation, improvement and comparison to other institutions I've come upon this topic while I was working at Innopolis University. Back then, I wondered about expectations from the industry and our sponsors towards our teaching. For example, since our students would end up working for those companies, which know-how they were expected to know. The first aspect is, therefore, ...
