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Colleges see a dip in ranking as NAAC changes parameters

SRINAGAR: The National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) has changed the parameters for certification of degree colleges this year.

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Rifat Mohidin

Tribune News Service

Srinagar, June 17

The National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) has changed the parameters for certification of degree colleges this year. As a result, the colleges in Valley have fallen back in their ranks, particularly the Government College for Women, MA Road, which is the highest seat of learning for women in the Valley.

Talat Parvez, secretary of higher education, J&K, said the new parameters added by the University Grants Commission (UGC) for the evaluation of colleges this year had made the ranks of the colleges throughout the country to fall.

“This is not bad as the aim of adding the new parameters is that the colleges should improve and they should become autonomous. Digital ways have been used for evaluating colleges this time,” he said.

In the recent certification by NAAC team, all colleges of the state had either bagged grade B or C in the NAAC ranking. Some colleges, such as Government College for Women, affiliated with the Cluster University, had slipped down from grade A to grade B+ in the latest accreditation. Located in the heart of Srinagar’s Lal Chowk, with more than 7,000 students on roll, the college, during the past two cycles of accreditation, had maintained grade A.

“The overall ranking of the college is 2.69 points out of 3 points. The parameters that were taken into account included placement cells, career counselling and that all faculty should be PhD,” an official said.

Another official said the reason for the low rank of Valley colleges was due to the low score in perception due to the unstable political situation.

“When you ask the students where you want to go for higher education, the state does not have a good perception score, which also became a major cause,” the official said. The previous accreditation of the women’s college expired in June 2017 but the renewal was delayed up to 2019.

Talat Parvez said “If we look into the development of the college, there is 40 per cent development and everything, like smart classrooms, digital library, infrastructure and academics, has improved. Even the current ranking of the college, B+, means it is considered among the good colleges of the country”.

NAAC, on the basis of a set of seven criteria, gives certification and ranking to colleges. As per new rules, 70 per cent assessment of the degree college or university is done on the basis of Self Study Report (SSR) submitted by the institution, while 30 per cent evaluation is done by the NAAC team physically.

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