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 […]
Why NBA, and Why Now?
Fittingly, accreditation of programs of institutes by the National Board of Accreditation (NBA) should ordinarily be the first choice of the institutes, at least by those who are not category 1 institutes, mandated by MHRD. After all, an institute is majorly, a sum total of its programs plus central facilities. What roots are to a […]
Is your University or College on the Right Side of the Regulations ?
Some institutes of higher education feel that they can perhaps get away by ignoring AICTE, UGC and other relevant Councils’ regulations and norms for whatever time they can, and take short-term advantage of such an expediency. This philosophy is certainly unlawful and unethical, though a savior at times and possibly profitable on short-term basis. It […]
NAAC Score-3.26 and Above is Hugely Enabling
The world has since changed for the private education institutes of higher education which found their names in the list of institutes granted autonomous status by the Government. These institutes have substantially broken-free from the regulations of various regulatory bodies which had long impeded the institutes’ freedom to grow and thrive. The special status allows […]
A BIG RUSH FOR THE NAAC ACCREDITATION EXPLAINED
The reason for a sudden interest and confidence in institutes of higher education in going for the NAAC accreditation is not difficult to explain. With the shifting of NAAC process substantially to quantitative metrics, devoid of an ‘on ground’ physical verification, it stands significantly diluted and comes quite within an easy reach of institutes. […]
