NAAC assessment: A boon for the higher education

Higher education is a powerful instrument for creating a knowledge and information based society. The mission and vision of higher education is to educate, train, undertake research activities and service to the community. Higher education is nothing but production and dissemination of knowledge. For human resource development, the State Council of Higher Education has emphasized the need to promote quality in every field of higher education. For this reason, it is seen that due to the growing demand for higher education there has been a mushroom growth of Higher Educational Institutions with fancy programmes and sub-standard quality. There is an urgent need to improve the quality of Higher Educational Institutions. Improving the quality and achieving excellence in teaching, examination, research and extension is the greatest challenge faced by all Higher Educational Institutions today. No educational institution can progress without quality. Since NAAC's assessment can judge the quality of a college or a university, it is expected that NAAC's assessment will lead to the academic upliftment and qualitative up gradation in the colleges. The National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) follows an internationally accepted methodology for assessment which is a combination of self-study on seven pre-determined criterion and validation of the self - study peer review.