Performance Audit and Improvement of Engineering Institutions for Sustainability of Human Capital Development
AUTHORS
Thanikachalam Vedhathiri,Former Professor, National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research, Chennai, India
ABSTRACT
Institutional Performance Audit has become a tool for evaluating institutional performance in 360 degrees. The outstanding accomplishments of the faculty team, alumni, and students are to be assessed. Without this, educational institutes can't sustain their existence. The contribution of the high-performing faculty teams will significantly accelerate the knowledge and human capital. Their publications, patents, and services that are rendered will assist the nation to grow at a faster speed in the competitive world. It also assists in the generation of internal revenue so that the institutes can have sufficient corpus funds for growth. An academic audit has become an important academic quality management process for all educational institutions. This is a well-focused process based on the self-reflection and self-improvement of educational programs and it provides soft interventions in improving the curriculum, developing effective instructional design, and evaluating the performance of the engineering students. This research provides many case studies, questionnaire preparation for collecting data, analysis, and planning interventions in the total transformations of the engineering graduates. A methodology has been developed to plan and conduct an academic audit in various institutions.
KEYWORDS
Sustainability of engineering institutes, Performance audit, Contribution to knowledge and human capital academic audit, Purpose, Planning, Identification of short-falls, Interventions, and utility