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Now once the programme education objectives are defined for each and every programme a set of programme outcomes are also defined and for each and every course in addition to the programme education objectives and the programme outcomes, for each and every course there is a course outcome. now the mapping of the competences that I mentioned above regarding graduate attributes has to start with the graduate attributes getting mapped to course outcomes, the course outcomes in turn getting mapped to programme outcomes and this again mapped to programme education objectives and the program education objectives getting mapped with the department vision and mission and the institutes. So in order that each and every activity that is concerned with teaching and learning process is aimed at delivering or ensuring that students acquire a certain set of competences. The present accreditation is called as outcome base accreditation or students’ centric accreditation. In this context the department and the institute is busily engaged in the preparation of the document necessary for getting the accreditation and we require the cooperation from all the student community in order to complete the survey as well as the course feedback forms in an appropriate manner. What I mean by this is that for each and every mapping that I mentioned above, there are a set of assessment tools that are employed and deployed that are required to arrive at the accreditation and to demonstrate that we have a set of processes to deliver what we are claiming. In this context the examinations that the students undergo and the evaluation and their correlation form a component called as direct assessment of accreditation. In order to gauge the competences that have been acquired by the students a set of surveys or feedbacks are conducted. The course feedback that each and every student has to fill is considered as one such document as part of the accreditation process. Now there are few questions that are been added and modified compared to the previous feedbacks. So I want all of you to understand that for every course there are a set of course outcomes which in turn or overall are expected to deliver or demonstrate certain skill-sets to be developed by the students at the end of the course. 3