Controversial grades awarded to Indian higher education institutions by the National Accreditation Council (NAAC) will be completely abolished. Instead, in the remediation process, the assessor seeks to make accreditation a binary process. It is labelled as either “accredited” or “to be accredited” by universities in an effort to root out corruption, “unhealthy practices” and an ugly “competition” that forces laboratories to hire consultants. means that Ratings are stronger. NAAC, NIRF (National Institutional Ranking Framework), and NBA (National Accreditation Board) will be combined into one “meta-accreditation body”, the National Assessment Council. Universities and research universities. TOI has published a series of reports on research institutions across India that beat his NAAC score of the Indian Institute of Science and consultants hired by universities who guaranteed him the highest NAAC score at a price. “We are looking into developing an outcome-based certification scheme. A binary certification scheme will ensure that unhealthy competition in grades is eradicated. will also be dynamic, he added, and institutions wishing to have their programs graded can also apply for this on a voluntary basis: “Nowadays, even if a university gets an A It is not necessarily an A grade, some are better than the grade given and some are not. Also, an A++ awarded in medical school does not compare to the same grade awarded in a liberal arts college. So why should we analyze them in the same way?” he asked. Patwardhan was speaking at his one-day state conference on ‘Accreditation:

The Way Forward was held at the University of Mumbai. Universities with high NAAC scores had booths to advise others on how to prepare for assessments.

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