PROMOTIONAL ANNOUNCEMENT

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Presentation on QUALITY INITIATIVE
FOR ACCREDITATION
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NATIONAL BOARD OF ACCREDITATIONAll India Council
for Technical Education

• AWARENESS
• ABOUT
• ACCREDITATION

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What is Accreditation ?

• Recognition and Guarantee of Minimum Quality

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What does Accreditation mean ?

• A Process of quality assurance, giving credit
  where it is due, for some clearly visible and
  demonstrable strategies of academic activities
  and objectives of the institution, known to be
  honestly pursued and efficiently achieved by the
  resources currently available, with potential for
  continuous improvement in quality for effective
  growth.

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Why Accreditation for institutes ?

• If your programmes are accredited by NBA, you
  will !
• Be able to identify your programmes with
  excellence in technical education.
• Be assured of conformity to good practices and
  benchmarks of global requirements.
• Be able to rate your programmes on a national
  platform to attract better student intake.
• Be able to appraise yourself vis-à-vis
  performance.
• Be a satisfied vendor of human capital to
  world-class employers and other stakeholders.

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Why was the NBA constituted ?

• To periodically conduct evaluation of Technical
  Institutions or Programmes on the basis of
  Guidelines, Norms and Standards specified by it
  and to it, by AICTE or the council, or the
  commission, regarding
• recognition and de-recognition
• of the institution or programme.

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NBAGoal 1

• To develop a Quality Conscious system of
  Technical Education where
• Excellence
• relevance to market needs and
• participation by all stake holders
• are prime and major determinants.

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NBAGoal 2

• NBA is dedicated to building a technical
  education system that will match the national
  goals of growth by
• competence
• contributions to economy through competitiveness
  and
• compatibility to societal development.

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NBAGoal 3

• NBA will provide
• Quality bench marks targeted at
• Global and National Stockpile of
• human capital
• in all fields of technical education.

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What does Accreditation signify?

• For the Parents and Students
• it signifies that their child goes through a
  teaching-learning environment as per accepted
  good practices, and that the student has entered
  an institution, which has the essential features
  of Quality Professional Education.
• For the alumni
• it signifies attachment through the pride of
  passing out of an institution with high
  credentials.

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What does Accreditation Signify ?

• For the employers.
• It signifies that the institutional
  performance is based assessment through a
  competent body of Quality assessors, with of
  strengths Weaknesses emanating as a feedback
  for policy-making.
• For the Institution
• it signifies its strengths, weaknesses and
  opportunity for future growth.

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What does Accreditation Signify?

• For the industry infrastructure Sectors
• it signifies, identification of quality of
  institutional capabilities and skills and
  knowledge.
• For the Country
• it signifies confidence in the suitability
  for sustaining stockpiles of market sensitive
  human capital and a pragmatic national
  development perspective.

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What is the Difference?

• between
• AICTE Approval
• and
• NBA Accreditation

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Approval of AICTE for new institutions or for
starting new programmes is based on

• Credibility of institutional Management and the
  programme providers.
• Assurance of compliance to AICTE Norms and
  Standards
• Prior approval by the state Government and
  university or other competent authority.
• Market sensitivity of programme outputs, to avoid
  imbalance in supply of qualified manpower.

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Accreditation of the institutional programmes by
NBA is based on..

• Demonstrated capability of the institution and
  programme to adhere to the qualitative criteria
• Assessment by peer groups of NBA experts through
  a visit to the institution
• Availability of potential for sustaining and
  improving upon the assessment criteria
• Recognition by all stake holders viz. end-users,
  institutional products and the community at
  large.

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What are the Accreditation Criteria ?

• Visiting NBA Team assesses
• Diploma, Under-graduates
• and Post-graduates Programmes
• based on approved criteria and weightages
• assigned thereof uniformly for all institutional
  programmes

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Under-graduate Programmes

• Human Resources Faculty 200
• Students 100
• Finance Physical Resource 120
• Mission, Goals, Governance 80
• Research Development
• Industry Institute Interaction 100
• Supplementary Processes 50
• Teaching Learning Processes 350
• Total 1000

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Post-graduate Programmes

• Human Resources Faculty 200
• Students
  100
• Finance Physical Resource 110
• Mission, Goals
  40
• Research Development
• Industry Institute Interaction 250
• Supplementary Process
  50
• Teaching Learning Processes 250
• Total 1000

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For Diploma Programs

• Human Resources Faculty 200
• Students
  100
• Finance Physical Resource 110
• Mission, Goals
  40
• Research Development
• Industry Institute Interaction 50
• Supplementary Process
  50
• Teaching Learning Processes 450
• Total 1000

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For all Programmes

• The visiting Team assesses parameters, not
  obvious from quantitative data supplied
• Academic Ambience and institutional morale
• Level Relevance of facilities and student work
• Capacity of staff, their knowledge/practices
• Assessment of student work in theory, practical,
  design /project work
• Comprehension by management, staff and students
  of the issues, problems vide the goals.

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What is the NBAs Quality Grading ?

• Accredited Programme for 5 Years
• when cumulative score is above 750
• signifies that programme meets and in most cases
  exceeds the criteria.
• Accredited Programme for 3 Years
• when cumulative score is between 650 and 749
• Signifies that programme meets the minimum
  criteria with marginal deficiencies which can be
  rectified in a short time.

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What is the NBAs Quality Grading ?

• Not Accredited
• when cumulative score is below 650
• Signifies that programme is not accredited in
  view of the seriousness of deficiencies.

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Composition of the visiting Accreditation Team

• The visiting Accreditation Team consists of a
  chairperson and two programme experts, one of
  them being from industry or end-user
  organisation, all of them selected on the basis
  of their high standing in the profession.
• The team for the above is selected from states
  other than the state in which the institution is
  located. Experts themselves withdraw from the
  accreditation exercise if they are involved with
  the institution in other capacities such as
  Advisor, Consultant, Research guides ..

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How is the Assessment Done ?

• The chairperson and the programme experts in
  consultation with the institution, agree to
  details of the visit based on NBA guidelines.
• The team carries out physical verification of
  infrastructure facilities, records, interviews
  faculty, staff, students , alumni and industry.

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What is not the purpose of Accreditation ?

• Not to find faults with the institution but to
  assess the status-ante of the performance.
• Not to denigrate the working style of the
  institution and its programmes but to provide a
  feedback on their strength and weaknesses.

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What is not the purpose of Accreditation ?

• Not to demarcate the boundaries of quality but to
  offer a sensitising process for continuous
  improvement in quality provisions
• Not to select only institutions of national
  excellence but to provide benchmarks of
  excellence and identification of good practices.

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What happens if there is no Accreditation ?

• It is to ensure that the institution, indeed has
  / likely to have in near future, the necessary
  resources for qualitative technical education.
• It is to ensure that the Institutional products
  meet industry requirements but are acceptable
  human resources in the global job market sector.

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What happens if there is no Accreditation ?

• It is not possible to sustain the present
  institutional growth rate and ensure maintenance
  of credible programmes.
• It is not possible to correct existing imbalances
  in generation of quality technical manpower.

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What happens if there is no Accreditation ?

• Accreditation of a course by the NBA or a college
  or University by the NAAC does not merely assure
  a better standard of delivery of Education but
  has serious ramifications in areas like Foreign
  Higher Education, Placements in Multi Nationals
  etc. 
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•          Under the GATS ( General Agreement on
  Trade and Services) Higher Education is a
  tradable "commodity " with countries "exporting"
  or "importing " education.    When the GATS
  regime crystallises ( as it is likely to in early
  2005) courses accredited by the accrediting
  body of a country shall alone carry credibility
  and recognition in other countries.
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What happens if there is no Accreditation ?

• The National Board of Accreditation has proposed
  India's membership to the Washington Accord.It is
  likely to fructify within a short time. This will
  have major ramifications on all the students who
  aspire to  post graduate ( M.S.) from American
  Universites (or Universities in other signatory
  countries for that matter) 
•          When India becomes a signatory to the
  Accord an Indian student of a non-accredited
  Engineering course may not be able to pursue
  his/her post graduation( the popular M. S. ) in
  the United States or other member countries.

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• THE
• PROCESS OF
• ACCREDITATION ?

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1 Institution Obtains priced publications Manuals
Forms
3 NBA Secretariat Scrutinises application and
authorises visit
2 Institution conducts a self-study and submits
particulars in two parts
4 NBA Secretariat constitutes visit Team and
details of visit
6 Sectorial committee of NBA reviews
recommendations
5 Accreditation team visits Institution and
makes recommendations
9 Results are notified in Directory of
Accredited Programmes
7 Results submitted to Executive Council of
AICTE
8 Executive Council of AICTE approves the
results and authorises notification
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Who can apply for Accreditation by NBA ?

• You can!
• If your institution and the programmes are
  approved by the AICTE
• and
• if at least two batches of students have passed
  out of the programme

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Which programmes come under Accreditation by NBA ?

• All diploma, degree and post graduate Programmes
  in following disciplines are covered under NBA
  Accreditation !
• Engineering and Technology
• Management
• Architecture
• Pharmacy
• Hotel Management and Catering Technology
• Town and Country Planning
• Applied Arts and Crafts

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Let us all take the Quality pledge Today
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I WILL FROM TODAY SAY WHAT I DO ! I WILL FROM
TODAY DO WHAT I SAY !! I WILL FROM
TODAY DEMONSTRATE MY CAPABILITY TO DO WHAT I SAY
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Should we take a pledge ?
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We are there because the students are there
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Quality Systems
Co.
Enablers for Global Educational Institutions 

• Thank You

Namaste
Prof. S Narasimha Rao, Vice President, Quality
Systems Co. 23, Perumal Koil Street, West
Mambalam, Chennai 600 033 INDIA Tel/Fax 91 44
2485 1192 email snrao_at_qualitysystems.co.in
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Should we now go ahead andjoin handsto get
the highest possible NBA Accreditation
CertificationYour Institution