The Executive Committee of NAAC (National Assessment and Accreditation Council) in its 104th meeting held today decided that :
- Binary accreditation will be implemented in the next four months and no new applications will be accepted as per the present methodology thereafter. Institutions that have already applied and are applying in the next four months shall have the option to either go by the present process or by the new methodology of binary accreditation.
- Maturity based Graded levels will be implemented by December 2024.
Binary Accreditation
๐๐ข๐ง๐๐ซ๐ฒ ๐๐๐๐ซ๐๐๐ข๐ญ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง (Either accredited or not accredited) rather than grades with an aim to encourage all the institutions to get on-boarded in the accreditation process thereby creating a quality culture in the higher education system.
Maturity Based Graded Accreditation
๐ ๐ฎ๐๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐-๐๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฑ๐ถ๐๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป (Level 1 to 5) to encourage accredited Institutions to raise their bar, continuously improve, evolve in-depth or in-breadth in disciplines from โLevel 1โ to โLevel 4โ as Institutions of National Excellence, and then to โLevel-5โ i.e. Institutions of Global Excellence for Multi-Disciplinary Research and Education.
One Nation and One Data Platform
One Nation One Data Platform to ensure integrity and transparency in handing institutional data. The new platform shall capture superset of data from HEIs for the varied purposes (of approval, accreditation, ranking) with an in-built design for collateral cross-checking to check authenticity of data.
The system shall be based on Trust Data and Driven with minimal visits to an institution for verification; however, carrying heavy penalties on giving wrong submissions. In addition, there will be provision for customized ranking based on stakeholders such as industry, funding agencies, students etc.
Ministry of Education