ACHIEVING QUALITY IN HIGHER EDUCATION ? TRENDS AND BENCHMARKING

What Defines Academic Excellence? The changing nature of work, technology, and competition in the global market has made us work on the quality of. Education System. Priorities and goals are to be set by educators at all levels of academia to close the gap. One of the ways to fill the gap is to focus on quality assurance as the true measure of academic excellence. We are capable of delivering the quality academic environment to the students which they deserve, but somehow we are doing tremendous injustice to them by ignoring this aspect in our routine and tight schedule. Trends and Benchmarking play a role in the mark of a quality education and a true indication of academic excellence. There has been an increasing pressure from different levels (from industry, politicians and researchers all around) to raise academic standards.