National Assessment and Accreditation Council

2. TOPIC : NAAC
Presented by
Anju R Kumar
B Ed, Mount Tabour
Training college
Pathanapuram

3. NAAC –
NATIONAL ASSESSMENT AND
ACCREDITATION COUNCIL

4. NAAC (1994)
 The National Assessment and
Accreditation Council is an autonomous
body established by the University Grand
Commission (UGC) of India to assess and
accredit institutions of higher education in
the country .
It is an outcome of the recommendation of
the National Policy on Education (NPE)

5. To ensure the satisfactory level of quality in
higher education, they permits the formation
of institutions of higher education with fancy
programs of standard facilities and standard .
To address the issue of deterioration in
quality , the NPE(1986) and Plan of Action
(POA - 1992) that spelt out the strategic plan
for the policies, advocated the establishment
of an independent national accreditation body
NAAC in 1994 with its headquarter at
Bangalore

6. The NAAC functions through its General Council
(GC) and Executive committee (EC) where
educational administrators, policy makers and
senior academicians from a cross section of
higher education are represented.
The chairperson of the UGC, is the president of the
GC of the NAAC; the chairperson of the EC is an
academic and administrative head, and is the
member secretary of both the GC and EC.

7. The NAAC also has many advisory and
consultative committee to guide its practices, in
addition to the statutory bodies that steer its
policies.
The NAAC has a core staff and consultants to
support it’s activities . It also receives assistant
from a large number of external resources
persons from across the country who are not full
time staff of NAAC.

8. AIMS OF NAAC
To assess and accredit instructions of higher
education in the country .
Contribution to National Development .
Fostering global competencies among students .
Inculcating a value system in students .
Promoting the use of technology .
Quest for excellence.

9. GRADING
Grade Point
A++ 3.76 - 4
A+ 3.51 – 3.75
A 3.01 – 3.50
B++ 2.76 – 3.00
B+ 2.51 – 2.76
B 2.01 – 2.50
C 1.51 – 2.00
D less than 1.51

10. CRITERIAS OF GRADING
Promotion of research .
Resource mobilization for research .
Research facility .
Research publications and awards.
Extension activities .
Instructional social responsibility .
Consultancy.

11. FUNCTIONS
• Device and establish mechanism for periodic
assessment and accreditation of instructions
of higher learning .
• Assess the quality of institutions of higher
education that volunteer for the process through
an internationally accepted methodology.
• Accredit instructions of higher learning ,
universities, colleges, centers of excellence etc..
& specific academic programmes.

12. • Set rating parameter & criteria for certifying
and grading higher educational instructions
and educational programmes.
• Develop an information database in higher
education to keep abreast with the latest
development in the area of higher education
particularly in the area of assessment and
accreditation .
• Recommend norms to be followed for quality
improvement in teaching and research in
higher education .