Accreditation System: NAAC Launches Dual Accreditation System

Bhubaneswar: A new binary accreditation system for colleges and universities across the country will be launched by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) in September, its executive committee chairman Anil D Sahasrabudhe said here on Saturday. “To significantly improve the quality of education, the government-constituted Radhakrishnan Committee for Transformative Reforms in Accreditation has made several key recommendations. The binary accreditation framework is one of them,” Sahasrabudhe said, speaking on the sidelines of a regional consultative workshop (eastern region) on binary accreditation organised at Utkal University here. “We have been using a grading system for the accreditation of colleges and universities for the past decade. Institutions get grades ranging from C to A++ in the existing system. We found that many institutions are not participating in the accreditation process fearing that they will not get good grades,” Sahasrabudhe said. He said there are around 1,200 universities in the country, of which around 65% do not participate in the accreditation process. “Similarly, there are around 50,000 affiliated colleges, but around 85% do not apply for accreditation. This is a matter of concern. Without accreditation, how can we know their quality, strengths, weaknesses and performance?” he asked. He said they want every higher education institution to come under the purview of accreditation. “That is our main objective. The new system will not have a grading system like the existing one. Institutions will not be afraid to apply for it,” he added. He also said that peer teams will not visit the institutes as part of the assessment under the new system. “In the existing grading system, peer teams visit the colleges or universities to assess the self-study report sent online by the institutes. In the new system, we will manage it using technology,” he added. Official sources said the proposed framework is expected to have less cycle time and lower costs. Data validation, which is largely quantitative, will be carried out by the peer institutes to ensure objectivity and correctness of the assessment. The proposed new preliminary framework has 10 features, including 59 metrics for universities, 56 for autonomous colleges and 46 for affiliated colleges.

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