As a statutory organisation of the Government of India, the University Grants Commission(UGC) was created in 1953 and formally instituted in 1956 under the Act of Parliament, the University Grants Commission Act of 1956. The UGC, placed under the Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education, is responsible for supervising and preserving the standards of…
The National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) is an autonomous organisation established by the University Grants Commission (UGC) in India in 1994. As the name suggests, NAAC’s focal point centres on assessing and accrediting Higher Educational Institutions(HEIs), namely universities, colleges and other acknowledged institutions. NAAC validates and evaluates HEIs to comprehend the institutions’ ‘Quality Status,’…
The National Institutional Ranking Framework, also known as NIRF, an initiative by the Government of India, comes beneath the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), which commenced in 2015. NIRF is a ranking methodology to position Academic institutions across the nation into a tier. This methodology is developed with metrics based on different parameters and…