Eight months after its Nationwide Evaluation and Accreditation Council (NAAC) grade expired, Panjab College (PU) on Friday submitted the self-study report (SSR) to the accreditation physique for the grade’s renewal.
The varsity has already submitted its Institutional Data for High quality Evaluation (IIQA) that officers stated had been accepted by NAAC.
As per the process laid down by the council, IIQA is to be submitted earlier than SSR that’s filed 45 days after IIQA acceptance. IIQA ascertains whether or not an establishment is “accreditation prepared”.
PU’s NAAC grade had expired on June 24, 2022, however the varsity was not able to go for an additional spherical of accreditation at the moment.
NAAC accreditation is a efficiency indicator for greater academic institutes and is obligatory for making use of for funds from central companies. An NAAC grade ‘A’ is the eligibility standards for even for the Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA) grant.
Over the past NAAC go to in 2015, the council had given the college an A-grade with a complete rating of three.35 out of 4.
The re-application course of has been considerably delayed as a result of the college final 12 months struggled to gather the info for SSR for which a panel was additionally constituted.
In the meantime, the varsity is but to implement a few of the main suggestions made by NAAC workforce throughout its final go to, together with the consolidation of small cognate departments and recruitment of extra college members.