February 09, 2025 9:26 am
A deemed-to-be university, KLEF had secured the highest grade of A++ during NAAC’s last assessment in 2018. The grade was two notches above the A grade it was awarded in 2013. The university was now up for reassessment for which the council's inspection was underway.
May 25, 2023 1:05 am
Colleges across state asked to begin with higher education institute registration, followed by institutional information for quality assessment
May 21, 2023 9:43 am
Led by Radhakrishnan, who is also the chairperson of the IIT Kanpur Board of Governors, the committee had IIM Ahmedabad Director Bharat Bhasker and Vice-Chancellor of Assam’s Mahapurusha Srimanta Sankaradeva Viswavidyalaya Mridul Hazarika as members.
March 10, 2023 8:49 am
UGC must take corrective action and work with the NAAC to improve the quality of education.
March 08, 2023 8:13 am
The NAAC claimed that out of the total pool of 4,686 active assessors, "3075 assessors have accepted the peer team visit invitations, which is roughly around 67% of the database".
March 07, 2023 8:44 am
NAAC is an autonomous body under the UGC that assesses and certifies higher educational institutions with gradings as part of accreditation.
March 07, 2023 8:45 am
This comes days after Bhushan, in a letter to UGC chairman M Jagadesh Kumar, stated that "vested interests, [and] malpractices" were leading to some higher educational institutes obtaining "questionable grades".
November 16, 2022 2:30 pm
"The idea is to eradicate the fear associated with the NAAC accreditation process, and to make it more of a facilitator for all the educational institutions to thrive for excellence," said Dr Bhushan Patwardhan, Chairperson of NAAC.
June 03, 2022 11:01 am
The proposal is part of a white paper, published on Wednesday, on revising the assessment and accreditation process of higher educational institutions in the country.
February 14, 2022 7:36 am
Until now, only those higher education institutions that are at least six years old, or from where at least two batches of students have graduated, could apply for NAAC accreditation.


