What New Education Policy has in the offing for you as Faculty?
I see the following refreshing change in the faculty professional lives 🙂 a) a definitely more competitive environment due to 100 top foreign institutes moving in. It would afford opportunities to the bright faculty to switch to the much greener pastures 🙂 b) self-skilling and up-skilling would be essential to teach vocational courses, hereinafter essential […]
NAAC Challenges for Health Sciences Colleges
1. You don’t have an option to opt out, unlike other non health sciences colleges. You also have 65:35 Online: Peer team weightage. Besides, you have Part-A (900 marks) and discipline specific Part-B(100 marks). It is unique and challenging. 2. Nearly 90 % health sciences institutes are bound to struggle in meeting the following quantitative […]
5 Useful hints on how to prepare your PPT for the visiting Peer team
Hint-1 As a Head of Institute, prepare around 40 slides PPT for 40+5 minutes and as Dir IQAC 15 slides (15 minutes) and as Dean/HOD 20 slides (20 minutes) at best. Spoken briefing in library, labs etc. be also prepared with supporting evidences/charts/boards/videos as applicable. Hint-2 Preferably 7 lines in each slide and each line […]
Never ignore your students if aiming to score high on the NAAC administered Survey
1. Don’t forget to brief your students what NAAC means to institute, and how it would benefit students now, and later in their career. Choose a right time, suitable platform and a credible and trusted motivator. Articulate how a top NAAC grade will make them walk with heads high and how their proud Alma Mater […]
NBA ACCREDITATION DEADLINE DRAWING DANGEROUSLY CLOSE
AICTE made it mandatory for technical institutes such as Engineering, Management, Pharmacy etc. by publishing it in “Approval Process Handbook 2018-19” (a legal document) to have their 60% programs NBA accredited in next 4 years. It reiterated its resolve in the Handbook 2020-21 and warned that institutes failing to do so shall not be accorded […]
Feedback for Improvements Required in the NAAC System
Deficiencies in the Quality Indicator Framework Relating to General University (A) Criterion- I Metric 1.1.2. SOP by NAAC on this metric is not accurately framed. It forbids inclusion of a content change whereas, the template of this metric provides for a university to state the percentage of ‘content changed’. I recommend that in 5 years, […]
NAAC Becomes Mandatory, Inevitable and Acquires a New Purpose
Draft National Education Policy-2019 is all set to be rolled-out, anytime. Of the many far-reaching reforms, NAAC emerges as a big game-changer. Institutes ‘Not Accredited’ by 2030 by NAAC shall cease to exist or would be asked to merge, and would thus lose their identity forever. There will be no single program HEI. All HEIs […]
60% Programs NBA Accreditation- a Must: ‘Do or Die’ Situation for Colleges
Big Question: Can I ignore NBA accreditation of my College Programs? Clear Answer: NO, Sir, AICTE has laid down strict regulations in its “AICTE Approval Process Handbook – 2019-20” for the institutes of technical professional education, including Engineering, MBA/PGDM/Pharmacy/HM etc. It hasn’t let any option for an institute to wriggle out of NBA even if […]
Like it or not, you simply have to lump the NAAC Process
Impression Institutes applying for the NAAC are mostly innocent, and a bit laid back-lackadaisical too . They go by what is given to them in the manual and rarely raise critical issues. While preparing for the accreditation response, however, a large number of professors leading the system get frustrated with the kind of metrics they […]
NAAC Needs a Massive Overhaul in ACCREDITATION
NAAC requires a massive overhaul in its ‘Quality Indicator Framework’. In its current form, it is replete with a number of irrelevant, inapplicable and avoidable metrics which at least 95% of colleges in India can’t demonstrate even 5% of the desired response. Institutes can’t even opt out from some of these. On the other hand, […]
