According to Bhavan's Director V Seshan, ``Educationists have felt it necessary that a system of evaluation and appraisal of schools be devised to be more professional than the coventional systems of inspection and supervision. In fact, this kind of evaluation is an Inspection by Invitation''.

The project will encompass all crucial aspects related to institutional inputs (teaching-learning processes), outputs or products. ``Three characterisitcs of evaluation of an institution will be taken care of: evaluation as an empirical process involving systematic collection and analysis of data concerning the operation of an institution, evaluation as an attempt to determine the worth, merit and effect of an institution, evaluation as an examination of the institutions capability in achieving its objectives,'' said Seshan.

With a view to obtain these objectives of evaluation, a high-powered professional panel of 11 members drawn from Shikshan Bharati's local colleges, University and principals of sister schools, headed by Seshan, the joint director of Shikshan Bharati, will undertake the evaluation of Bhavan's Vidyashram in the city between February 11 and 13. The Visyashram will be the fifth school in the country to undergo such a type of institutional evaluation.