New Delhi: The National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) has released new guidelines, allowing all the colleges and universities to apply for provisional accreditations if they have completed an academic year.
Earlier, the higher education institutions and universities with two batches of graduated students, or those who have completed six years of existence were eligible to apply for NAAC’s assessment and accreditation.
However, according to the latest guidelines released by the NAAC, the institutes will have to be evaluated based on qualitative and quantitative framework to apply for provisional accreditation for colleges (PAC).
The evaluation of the framework will include different factors like student-teacher ratio, pass percentage of students, learning assessment criteria, use of technology in teaching, among others.
With the release of new guidelines, the Council has taken the decision of providing accreditation to more colleges as only a few colleges and universities in the country have NAAC grading.
According to the manual, the institutions applying for the provisional accreditation will receive feedback from the NAAC to cite the required improvements for achieving better quality.
Further, the manual adds that the provisional accreditation (PAC) will be valid for two years, and that the institutions will not get more than two times.
About NAAC
NAAC is an autonomous body vested with the responsibility of assessing and accrediting higher educational institutions in India.
The council assesses colleges, universities and other education institutes on the basis of its adherence to standards of quality such as “educational processes and outcomes, curriculum coverage, infrastructure, learning resources, organisation, governance, teaching-learning processes, faculty, research, financial well being and student services.”
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