The road to get accredited for the second or subsequent cycles for higher educational institutions will now come with a rider.
Starting September 16, all institutions applying for assessment and accreditation from the second cycle onwards will have to mandatorily submit the Annual Quality Assurance Report (AQAR).
What’s more, the Executive Committee of the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) has also said that institutions accredited by will also have to compulsorily have functional Internal Quality Assurance Cells (IQAC), terming it a “quality sustenance measure.”
According to NAAC data, 138 universities and 2,474 colleges have been accredited in the second cycle and 32 universities and 237 colleges in the third cycle. All cycles are for five-year periods.
As on July 11, as many as 436 universities and 9,059 colleges have been accredited.
Apart from these guidelines, NAAC’s Executive Committee has also directed institutions to upload minutes of the meetings of the IQAC meeting and compliance to the decisions, as well as the AQARs on the institution’s website.
