Reasons why you should always go for mentoring on NAAC/NBA accreditation by an expert
A very few people in academics, NAAC or NBA are aware that a Mentor, Chair or Consultant is a mandatory requirement with the world’s top accrediting bodies, namely ABET, AACSB and others. However, in India, these services are sadly discouraged. It is however, undeniable that an expert , be it from the accrediting agencies or […]
Don’t even think of settling down for less than a ‘top grade’ in NAAC & NBA Accreditation
A loss of clarity and commitment in preparing for the NAAC and NBA accreditation, and/or living with a false sense of preparedness can potentially land an institute into a poor grade of C or B, B+ or B++. Once in B or C grade, it pulls down an institute’s credibility very badly, leading to all […]
Prerequisites of a Good NAAC and NBA Consultant
Most credible accreditation bodies of the world like ABET, AACSB and others require institutes applying for accreditation to compulsorily utilize the services of their mentors/chairs who guide them in fulfillment of their accreditation goals. In India, it is just the opposite. Here, mentoring is often taken as a weakness. Nonetheless, when an institute lands up […]
Accreditation Advantage
Yes and No. Yes, if an institute is badly requiring to start a new program or increase intake or in case, an accreditation is a “must do” regulatory requirement. On the other hand, a top grade can place institute in an exclusive league of institutes, even make it an ‘institute of eminence’ thereby opening wide […]
Who says it takes 5 years to prepare for NAAC and 3 years for NBA?
Yes, I say so. It sounds a bit shocking, though! Let me explain. It is simple. To begin with, no institution runs or expected to run exactly on the NAAC or NBA benchmarked criteria. You don’t open the accreditation manual and start your college. In fact, most institutes come face-to-face with the criteria only when […]
Did you know that it is a Global Best Practice to Engage a Mentor, Guide or Consultant in preparing for accreditation?
So far, most of you perhaps knew that institutes should avoid a mentor, guide or consultant for institute’s NAAC and NBA accreditation. You are not alone in this. Some accrediting bodies too have been cautioning institutes as well, unmindful of the fact that having mentors, team chairs and consultants during a sustained period of institute’s […]
Is Preparation for NAAC Accreditation becoming a Pain in the Neck?
“Get us A+ NAAC” is all that they say. A few would compound it by fixing a deadline of just a couple of months, enough for VCs and Directors to run hatter scatter. Only a few Founders and Chairmen endowed with sound academic experience understand what it takes to score an “A” series NAAC grade. […]
Advantage-Institutes Eyeing for Higher NAAC Grade
After all, why would NAAC include a metric that all most guarantee’s 100 Marks to an Institute? It doesn’t help in graded evaluation. Moreover, the purpose of NAAC is not to preach but assess and evaluate a practice. For example, (a) teachers using ICT for teaching (b) courses having focus on employability/entrepreneurship/skill development (c) […]
Wish Our Institutes were Truthful and Transparent!
If you logged on to an institute’s website, saw a post on the social media or read an advertisement in the newspaper, during or closer to admission times and found an ordinary institute boasting about providing its students, a cutting-edge technology, a state-of-the art labs and workshops, centers of excellence, foreign immersion, thus resorting to […]
A Lot to Do as Yet by the UGC, AICTE and NAAC
For years, AICTE was clearly out of tune with the institutes, expecting a minimum Faculty to Students ratio (FSR) of UG engineering and MBA/PGDM as 1:15, and cadre ratio of 1:2:6. This had compelled most affiliated institutes to misrepresent and sign false affidavits to keep the colleges running. Thanks to late stage wisdom that the […]
