NAAC plans to align accreditation, assessment with NEP 2020

The National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) stated that it is planning to align the assessment and accreditation process in higher education with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020.

‘The System of Assessment and Accreditation in India’, a White Paper draft prepared by NAAC, says the system of assessment and accreditation in India must be aligned to the National Education Policy 2020 and Sustainable Development Goals 2030.

Dr. S.C. Sharma, Director of NAAC, stated that Karnataka is the first State which implemented the NEP. In the coming years, other states will also follow. This is helpful as higher education should cater to all sections of people, like socio-economic disadvantaged groups and autonomous colleges; multidisciplinary colleges, all the matrix should be captured in an effective manner.

Proposed framework

Currently, the function of NAAC is only monitoring of quality compliance of the HIEs, but according to the proposed white paper, the NAAC will be empowered with more functions such as quality enhancement, quality maintenance, assessment and accreditation. In future, instead of graded accreditation of HEIs, the binary accreditation of HEIs and graded accreditation of academic programs will be considered for the accreditation process.

According to the proposed white paper, the criteria for assessment and accreditation will function and outcome-based on general educatedness, skills/abilities for specialised education and contribution to research/innovation.

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