Quality, Ranking and Accreditation
NEP-2020 recommends promoting India as a global study destination providing premium education at affordable costs thereby helping to restore its role as a “Vishwa Guru”. Accordingly, concerted efforts are required to position India as the preferred place for learners across the globe to acquire quality higher education in both conventional and online modes of education. In this context, one of the targeted goals is to attain higher ranks in the world-renowned rankings such as the Times Higher Education and QS World University Rankings. For the first time, IIT Indore has been ranked in the top 400 of QS 2023 ranking and the ranking of all the Indian universities listed in top 400 has improved in QS 2023 ranking. To ensure that Indian HEIs attain higher ranks in the global ranking frameworks on a continuous basis on both the targeted segments, that is, a greater number of HEIs and the higher ranks, suitable methodologies need to be adopted at the policy level and Institutions level. Such methodologies are also expected to provide suggestive recommendations to the NAAC and NIRF for inclusion in the assessment criteria. The session will focus on approaches, which can assist Indian HEIs to attain better performance in accreditation and rankings, both at the National and International levels.
Margdarshak-Margdarshan Initiative (Mentor-mentee handholding among institutes): This initiative solicits support from senior academicians and well-established institutes to handhold and mentor other Mentee Beneficiary Institutes (MBIs) that aspire to achieve accreditation. 44 technical institutes have been nominated as Mentor Institutes and 322 senior academicians have been engaged as Margdarshaks for mentoring 894 MBIs. Through this mechanism, 114 institutes have been accredited by NBA and 80 institutes have submitted Self-Assessment Reports as a precursor for accreditation. NAAC has simplified the Online Accreditation Process and reduced the parameter from 102 to 57.
According to the NEP-2020, the purpose of quality higher education is more than the creation of greater opportunities for individual employment. It represents the key to more vibrant, socially engaged, cooperative communities and a happier, cohesive, cultured, productive, innovative, progressive, and prosperous nation.
NEP-2020 also envisions that colleges will be encouraged, mentored, supported, and incentivized to gradually attain the minimum benchmarks required for each level of accreditation. Over a period of time, every college will either develop into an Autonomous degree-granting college, or a constituent college of a university. In the latter case, it would be fully a part of the university. With appropriate accreditations, autonomous degree granting colleges could evolve into research-intensive or teaching-intensive universities, if they aspire to. To mentor the non-accredited institutions, the UGC has already implemented an initiative called, “Paramarsh”. Under this initiative, well-performing institutions with higher accreditation scores are encouraged to mentor the non-accredited institutions. However, it is essential to get all the HEIs get accredited in a time-bound manner in order to ensure quality higher education for all.
The session on “Quality, Ranking and Accreditation” focused on various aspects related to ranking and accreditation frameworks including:
- Deliberate upon the approaches that can assist Indian HEIs to perform better in accreditation and rankings, both at the national and international levels;
- Discuss and review the parameters adopted by the accrediting agencies;
- Explore ways to bring the vast majority of non-accredited institutions under the ambit of the accreditation framework.
Name of Panelist
| Quality, Ranking and Accreditation | Chair | Prof. K. K. Aggarwal, Chairman, National Board Accreditation, New Delhi |
| Panellist | Prof. G. Hemanth Kumar, Vice-Chancellor, University of Mysore, Mysore | |
| Panellist | Dr. R. M. Kathiresan, Vice-Chancellor, Annamalai University | |
| Panellist | Prof. Dr. S. Vaidhyasubramaniam, Vice-Chancellor, SASTRA, Thanjavur | |
| Panellist | Prof. R. P Tiwari, Vice-Chancellor, Central University of Punjab |
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