Accreditation Edge

TRIUMPH OVER THE NAAC and NIRF THE ETHICAL and THE RIGHT WAY

TRIUMPH OVER THE NAAC and NIRF THE ETHICAL and THE RIGHT WAY * It is best to have a wise Dir IQAC or any other senior faculty leading in NAAC and NIRF process from within the institute. However, be sure of his/her competence. Don’t take any internal/external self proclaiming “I” specialist, thumping chest, “I know […]

Difference of NAAC, NBA, NIRF in faculty definitions and FSR requirement

*NAAC, NBA, NIRF have all different faculty definitions and FSR requirement. Wonder why can’t they have one unified standard ? * * Faculty in NAAC* is only regular (full-time) with 90% of the total academic workload in AY engagement (Sorry, No visiting, part-time, contract, adhoc or eminent). It is a ratio of enrolled students in […]

4 Top Scoring NAAC Metrics

NAAC, for all good reasons has given a certain weight to some simple-scoring 4 metrics with whopping 100 marks. It holds the key to tilt the balance of your institute to higher NAAC grade : Don’t make mistakes in understanding how to answer all of these. Here is a clarity :- 1.1.2- Program Syllabus revision-20 […]

Specific Roles of University Appointments to Get to the Top of NAAC

Specific Roles of University Appointments to Get to the Top of NAAC 1. Responsibility of IQAC Director in NAAC related activity planning : A month prior to the commencement of Academic Year, plan a Calendar of activities/events specific to NAAC metrics and as desired in DVV SOP and list it as Annexure to the Annual […]

NAAC’s 18 Enablers

Dear Readers, NAAC goes tough; expects institutes to leverage technology and also save environment. Check, if you have all of these 18 Enablers in your institute, if aspiring for a top grade* * ERP (Comprising, OBE/CBME, Admissions, Academic Records, Accounts, Admin, Exam Management system) either through Independent Software Vendor (ISV) or Software as Services (SAS) […]

Why NAAC work tires you down and saps your energy ?

1. When you ask yourself and others to fake data, documents, prepare Minutes of Meetings, manufacture reports from the past years, it drains you out mentally since the inner soul and human conscious is pure in nature. It agitates. It creates disruptions, and perhaps, that leads to mental tiredness and a loss of energy. 2. […]

Rejig Your Learning Tools with multi-choices and Add-On options

(For the IQAC to implement as a leading initiative) It is now trending across disciplines to keep as few credits as utmost essential in the curriculum and unshackle students to explore and excel in multiple fields of their innate cognitive ability and passion, and become better employable. Here is what institutes can enable their students […]

Unfair Alumni Donations?

Don’t make it so distasteful for alumni by asking them to donate funds, too early in their career. They have just begun to earn and many have loans to return, many more would be without jobs. It is near impossible to comprehend how NAAC puts all most, a complete emphasis on the money donations, unmindful […]

Least understood Academic and Admin Audit (AAA) by Universities and Colleges

No one likes Audit and Auditors. It is a human nature, not to get grilled and told point-blank, ‘look, this is not good’, ‘that is not good’, ‘why you did this’ and ‘why not that’. Moreover, most institutes do AAA, just as an ‘eye-wash’ exercise, only because it is a requirement of the NAAC criterion […]

A Founder’s Dream of his University

“ I’m charged with a powerful vision before me. I see nothing but the eye of the fish; the arrow of conviction, well-stretched on the string of the bow. My university is my passion. My passion is my university. I have an absolute clarity in what I must do. 1. I have a young university. […]