Accreditation Edge

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. […]

My Role as a Proud IQAC Coordinator

I love my IQAC team. It is not just on paper; it is firmly vibrant on ground. It doesn’t appear and disappear; it is there all the time in the garden of quality, seeding and nurturing saplings. Some of these have now grown into trees, bearing fruits and flowers. Let me share with you what […]

YOU ARE THE BEST

Covid-19 seems to be not just going away, so soon. A second wave is reportedly hitting Europe. So, what is that, we as faculty can best do? Here are some ideas for the viability and sustainability of our profession and our living : 1. Stay upbeat We are basically in 2 types of institutes. Some […]

A 13-Point Crux of 34 Years of wait for NEP. Keep it handy. It could assist you in articulating your views, whenever, wherever

1. Multi-disciplinary HEIs by 2040 in the category of ‘Research Intensive ’, ‘Teaching Intensive’ universities and ‘Autonomous Degree Granting multi-disciplinary Colleges’ above 30O0 students. Affiliated colleges will phase out by 2035 if unable to become autonomous by scoring a set benchmarked accreditation grade. One multi-disciplinary HEIs in/nearby every district by 2030. 2. Graded autonomy for […]

Clarity on how to improve your institute’s one major failing

Good institutes not just keep waiting at their gates for employers to embark upon their campus but instead, impact students’ lives by giving them an enabling platform to open their own start-ups. At least, 5% of total number of students, passionate into turning entrepreneurs, must be inspired, supported n’ turned into successful entrepreneurs. It is […]

10 Points To Help You Write Qualitative Metrics for the NAAC Accreditation

1. Read every metric/question carefully and underline the keywords. Use keywords, preferably in the sub-headings as also in the body of the write-up to write a focused response. It is critical to ensure that all aspects/dimensions of a question are fully answered. 2. NOT to write a response in the ‘Present tense’, as if you […]