NATIONAL BOARD OF ACCREDITATION

announces
rd

3 WORLD SUMMIT ON ACCREDITATION

18th -20th March, 2016
at
The Leela Ambience Gurgaon
Ambience Island, National Highway 8, Gurgaon 122 002
(5 Kms from International Airport, Delhi)

QUALITY ASSURANCE THROUGH OUTCOME BASED ACCREDITATION

NATIONAL BOARD OF ACCREDITATION
The National Board of Accreditation (NBA) is an independent organization engaged in quality
assurance of professional education in India through accreditation. National Board of Accreditation
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(NBA) has been accorded Permanent Signatory status of Washington Accord on 13 June 2014. The
Washington Accord is an international accreditation agreement for professional engineering
academic degrees, between the bodies responsible for accreditation in its signatory countries. NBA
has adopted internationally prevailing outcome-based assessment and accreditation, in which
excellence in technical education is evaluated based on the results of the assessment of educational
outcomes, rather than on prescriptive input standards.
WOSA series brings together eminent speakers from industry, corporate and academia from India
and overseas to facilitate free discussion on subjects relating to best practices in accreditation and
means to improve quality of education through these practices. The discussion and global
participation in WOSA 2016 will bring about new ideas and help in establishing new trends of
identifying opportunities and challenges in professional education world-wide.
The summit shall have the following Sub- Themes:

Theme 1 - Accreditation: Global Best Practices

Theme 2 - Improving Quality through attainment of Learning Outcomes
Theme 3 - Technical Education An Indian Perspective
Theme 4 - Industry Expectations from Academia
Theme 5 - Effective Use of ICT for Education and learning

Who should participate?

Educational institutions aiming for quality assurance and quality enhancement
Industry and corporate willing to contribute to improvement in quality of education and
produce industry relevant graduates
Policy-Makers
Educational Administrators
Eminent scholars having interest in professional education
Registration Details:

Important Dates:

For Registration:
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Last date for Early Bird Registration 31 December 2015
Last date for Online Registration
17th March 2016

Registration Fee: Rs.20,000/- per person + 14%

service tax, i.e. Rs.2,800/- = Rs.22,800/20% discount on early bird registration.
Delegate accompanied by the Spouse will be
charged Rs.5000/- extra.
For every group of 6 from the same
organization, registration fee would be charged
for only 5 participants.

For Submission of Paper:

Deadline for submitting full paper
Notification to authors
Conference presentation

31st December 2015

15th February 2016
28th February 2016

davp 21315/13/0011/1516

For Registration please logon to www.nba-wosa.in

Call for Papers

WOSA 2016 invites papers in the prescribed format. The selected authors will also be given an opportunity for presentation
in the various technical sessions during the summit. The authors are requested to ensure that the contents are relevant to
the main theme and/or sub themes. The guidelines could be seen at the website www.nba-wosa.in.

Contact Details:
National Board of Accreditation, WOSA Secretariat, NBCC Place, East Tower, 4th Floor, Bhisham Pitamah Marg, Pragati
Vihar, New Delhi 110003, India, Tel +91 1124362341, Telefax: +91 11 2436 9651 email:wosa2016@nbaind.org;
www.nba-wosa.in