In
its efforts to remain relevant and globally acceptable, NAAC has taken
cognizance of the changing trends in higher education, stakeholder perceptions
and feedback, besides the avalanche of experience gained from its accreditation
exercise involving more than 11,132 institutions [518 Universities and 10614
Colleges] till July 2017, which stand in good stead in all its endeavours.
Over the last
few months, NAAC has conducted several rounds of stakeholder interactions, a
National Workshop and Meetings of several Working Groups for the preparation of
the Manuals for Universities, Autonomous Colleges and Affiliated Colleges. The
draft framework was pilot tested on select Higher Education Institutions
(HEI’s) across the country.
A National
Consultation on the Revised Accreditation Framework was held on 25th
April, 2017 at New Delhi. Shri Prakash Javadekar, Minister for Human Resource
Development, Government of India, inaugurated the programme in which eminent
academicians and educationists actively participated.
The Revised Accreditation Framework which
became operational in July 2017, is ICT enabled, objective, transparent,
scalable and robust.
The new framework is a subtle combination of System Generated
Scores (SGS) with a combination of online evaluation (70%) and Peer evaluation
(30%) which would usher in high level of transparency.
The Revised
Framework is more ICT intensive and ‘outcome based’. The current grading
pattern of NAAC (A++, A+, A, B++, B+, B, C, D) would be continued for
accreditation. A system of applying minimum qualifiers for achieving a grade
has been designed and will be implemented. For example, Universities should
score a minimum of 3.01 in Criteria 1, 2 and 3 for achieving a “A” “A+”
“A++”grade.
For further details on
the process and formats for submission of online Institutional
Information for Quality Assessment (IIQA), Self Study Report (SSR),
Student Satisfaction Survey, Fee structure etc. please login to NAAC
website: http://www.naac.gov.in/.
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