Dear Harasit Kumar Paul I would like to suggest following parameters to judge institutional standard:

1. Cost of education

2. International faculty

3. International students

4. Faculty-student ratio

5. Research impact

6. International Funding

7. Resource Generation

8. Patents granted

9. Technology developed

10. Students getting international assignments

Thanks!

I completely agree with Dr Choudhary, also if we look for the criteria based evaluation we can check for following criteria;

These are NAAC criteria and more is available at the following link:

https://www.creatrixcampus.com/blog/naac-accreditation

Thank you for sharing this Question

Harasit Kumar Paul

Dear Doctor,

Our senior colleague from the research fraternity Arbind K. Choudhary has rightfully listed all the necessary areas. But my problem is that when I choose any educational institute in any part of the world, I see almost always that they are highlighting their achievements in these areas. I personally feel that wrong information is given through advertisements in many a cases.

Arbind K. Choudhary you will not believe that today I see secondary schools also highlighting on item numbers 2 and 3 in your list. I get very confused with that. I have studied in a college in Kolkata which is famous all over India. I have seen over the years that people try to estimate the standard of that college by the list of its former students which includes Laxmi Mittal, Sourav Ganguly, Jagadish Chandra Bose and many others.

Thank you.

Best regards,

Anamitra.

Dear Harasit Kumar Paul Anamitra Roy According to a disclosure from European Parliament, there seems to be a consensus that the assessment of an institution should be undertaken against the following eleven areas:

1) Mission and purposes

2) Planning and evaluation

3) Organization and governance

4) The academic Program

5) Faculty

6) Students

7) Library and other information resources

8) Physical and technological resources

9) Financial resources

10) Public disclosure

11) Integrity

For details, the link is given below:

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2015/563377/IPOL_STU(2015)563377_EN.pdf

Thanks!

Arbind K. Choudhary,

Thanks for your valued contribution. You have mentioned important areas that might help one to judge the institutional standards. I acknowledge your thoughts.

Shirshendu Roy

I do believe the areas mentioned by you are much more important in the context of institutional standards. I highly appreciate your contributions.

Osamah K.Abdulretha Alsharifi

Thanks for your appreciation. You are welcome.

Anamitra Roy

Thanks for your nice contribution. I do agree with you that many institutions highlight the achievements of their past students as a measure of their institutional success. Thanks for raising a useful point.

Arbind K. Choudhary

Thanks for sharing the disclosure by the European parliament. It is a very good piece of information. I appreciate your efforts.

Dr. Paul thanks for your kind words.

Interesting discussion

Benjamin Karikari

Thanks for your appreciation.

Arbind K. Choudhary

Dear Professor,

Thank you for sharing the disclosure of the European Parliament. It was very helpful for me.

Best regards,

Anamitra.

To have a quick look for standards, just glance for the faculty profile, accreditation, ranking of the institution, laboratory and library infrastructure. This will give a general idea about the institution.

S. Feroz, thanks for your impressive contribution. You have raised a vital issue of accreditation, though there is an absence of a well functioning accreditation council in many countries. I highly appreciate your viewpoints.

M.K. Tripathi

The relationship between professional teaching standards and the evidence that they have been met and/or maintained is an issue of ongoing interest internationally. This study employed a dialogic analysis of research conversations and institutional ethnography to trace the social relationships that support teachers’ learning in ways that they considered had transformed their practice. Some examples are used to illustrate how the nature of evidence of transformed teaching work offered by teachers differed from the evidence they had produced for the purposes of accreditation against professional standards.

Vishnu Kumar Gupta, thanks for your response. Would you please add a few words on the shreds of evidence of institutional standards?

Kamal M Alsaad, thanks for your valued contribution. I realize your viewpoints.

Institutions report or store good evidence in many formats, and institutions engaged in self evaluation or external evaluation teams may find good evidence in a number of sources, including institutional databases; documents such as faculty handbooks, catalogues, student handbooks, policy statements, program review ... https://www.mvc.edu/files/Guide_Evaluating_Institutions_Aug2012.pdf

Evidence-based policy has become a norm in the current policy-making rhetoric, affecting also higher education quality assurance. Rigorous ex-post impact studies are highly challenging in the field of quality assurance. Nevertheless, there are alternative ways how evidence can effectively guide quality assurance policies and how evidence-based mentality can be encouraged by government policies. A more realistic view on how evidence informs policies (indirectly and via stakeholders’ arguments) and how professionals incorporate evidence in their work (selectively and next to other information sources) broadens the scope for useful evidence for higher education quality assurance. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21568235.2018.1475248

Reasons for the growing interest in ‘impact’ and ‘evidence’ in quality assurance are probably manifold. First, the field of quality assurance has evolved significantly over the last two decades. As Stensaker (2007) argues, the era of enthusiasm is replaced by the era of realism in higher education quality assurance. As quality assurance is no longer a novel practice encountered with eagerness, there is time and a need to reflect what impact past activities have had. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21568235.2018.1475248

Lined with Chinaza Godswill Awuchi idea