Clarity on NAAC Infra related Metrics- Budget Planning & Expenditure
Clarity on NAAC Infra related Metrics- Budget Planning & Expenditure * NAAC seeks expenses incurred by HEI over the 5 years, year-wise under 3 budget heads as under:- 1. Development & Augmenting of infra :- optimum benchmarked at 40% of the total expenses (minus salary payouts) 2. Library : Books, e books, journals, e journals […]
How you should begin implementing NEP 2020
How you should begin implementing NEP 2020 * There are a few initiatives, your University/college can take now and be ahead of others in implementing NEP-2020. 1. If yours is at least “A”NAAC or within 100 NIRF rank institute, plan your programs to be delivered in 2022-23 now, to be uploaded on the Academic Bank […]
NAAC process or high benchmarks can’t intimidate if you build a strong academic quality foundation
Let me cover one practice of laying a quality foundation for an academic governance of your institute Academic governance, we know, is like a partly explored deep, dark and huge jungle of Amazon. You barely succeed in cutting through some way into it, but continuously need to keep looking at your back and clearing the […]
Students Satisfaction Survey” when ignored can pull the institute down like a ripe coconut by a hook, in NAAC grade
It is hard to root in a perception of “positivity” in students for their “Alma Mater” at not so great a time when SSR is getting uploaded on the NAAC portal. The best is to genuinely create a highly impactful support system of skilling and new learning opportunities for students over a sustained period and […]
What is your University JRF NAAC Score ?
JRFs to be counted in the NAAC must have passed either UGC NET-JRF and in recipient of the UGC award of fellowship. JRF is for the 2 years and/OR * as per New version of NAAC, be a PhD research scholar of your university, provided scholar given a fellowship grant of the UGC equivalent say […]
New changes in the NAAC Accreditation Manual needs an urgent thinking by the HEIs
The latest Dec 22 changes, will impact HEIs greatly. The research has taken a centre stage. Some not so relevant and easy scoring metrics have been removed. Some metrics weightage has been enhanced. The benchmarks in the public domain are also steep and hard to get. The ultimate cake-pudding on the New Year for the […]
Looking beyond NAAC as you set your aim to become a Highly Cited Researcher (HCR) ?
We look at enhancing research citations with a prism to get a top grade in NAAC. That is very narrow thinking. Any NAAC consultant or Mentor who doesn’t focus on building academic and research capability in an institute is not worth calling a NAAC consultant or mentor. I join you in accumulating knowledge and passing […]
Value-Added and Add-On Courses for scaling up NAAC Grade
The difference between Value Added courses (VACs), Add-on courses and Enrichment Courses can leave even a top NAAC consultant answer less. These are same and used interchangeably. All have the same character and blood-stream running – beyond curriculum and same objective-helping students in skill competencies which enable jobs. Ideally, there should be no bar in […]
Turn your IQAC from a position of a thankless job to a highly thankful job
You are potentially a team-quality, but perhaps your faculty peers perceive you otherwise-a team on the prowl for data collection. *Mission- top NAAC grade and NIRF ranking has kept you in a spin. You always find that the activities you should have done 5 years or 4 years ago can’t be done now. So, what […]
Trailing in NAAC DVV score
Trailing in NAAC DVV score ? You can still score over 80% in the peer team visit. Let us take a look, what creates a first big impact on a Peer team :- 1. Sometimes, a VC or Director’s words might not strike the chord with the peer team. For example, a few months ago, […]
