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Week after CBI arrested 10 in NAAC 'bribery scam', Andhra university at centre of row barred from accreditation for 5 years

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.

Colleges failing to get NAAC mandate to lose varsity affiliation

May 25, 2023 1:05 am

Colleges across state asked to begin with higher education institute registration, followed by institutional information for quality assessment

Govt panel recommends overarching agency to grade varsities, including IITs

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.

The Express View | NAAC's top official's resignation shines a light on flaws in the system to grade colleges, universities

March 10, 2023 8:49 am

UGC must take corrective action and work with the NAAC to improve the quality of education.

NAAC: Accreditation, assessment process is transparent, can’t be compromised

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".

NAAC Chairperson resigns to ‘safeguard sanctity of post’

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.

NAAC chief seeks inquiry into UGC's move to get additional chairman

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".

‘Thrive for excellence’: NAAC accreditation now in binary terms, 2 terms for institutions

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.

Provide 10% marks to critical thinking in college papers: NAAC panel

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.

New guidelines: Institutes that complete one year can seek provisional NAAC accreditation

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.

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