Accreditation Agencies and their Role in Quality Assurance in Education
This article explores the role of accreditation agencies in ensuring quality assurance in education. Accreditation agencies play a critical role in the evaluation and monitoring of educational institutions, programs, and services to ensure that they meet the necessary standards of quality. The article provides an overview of the accreditation process, including the criteria and standards that institutions must meet to receive accreditation. Additionally, the article examines the benefits of accreditation for educational institutions and their stakeholders including students, employers, and the broader community. The article also explores the types of accreditation and challenges faced by accreditation agencies, including the need to keep up with rapidly changing educational environments and the potential for conflicts of interest. The researcher makes use of literature review as a method to attain data related to this research topic. Documents like published journals, Books, Paper presentations, and other documents related to the said topic were reviewed. The data obtained was qualitatively analysed. The research highlights the critical role of accreditation agencies in maintaining and improving the quality of education and the need for ongoing efforts to strengthen the accreditation process. The result of this research indicate that there are a lot of efforts made by several countries to improve education through accreditation agencies but there are still challenges facing the quality of education around the world.
KEYWORDS: Accreditation, agencies, role, quality, assurance, education.
