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National Board of Accreditation (NBA)
Posted Date: 05 Apr 2008 Resource Type: News/Announcements Category: Education
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Posted By: Bala Member Level: Diamond
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What is NBA Accreditation?
The National Board of Accreditation (NBA) aims to bring standards of some of the programmes offered in technical institute on par with programmes offered in instituitions offered across USA and Europe, by introducing a quality auditing system and establishing datum for measuring the quality and excellence in engineering education. The NBA will periodically conduct evaluation of technical institutions and Programs on the basis of guidelines, norms and standards.
The accreditation exercise is designed to be rigorous with several inputs such as quality of teaching, level of research, faculty expertise, evaluation of teachers, standard of infrastructure available in the campus, such as hostel facility, library, medical facility etc. These are taken into consideration in order to help the visiting accreditation team of txperts to have holistic approach and arrive at a rational evaluation.
Realising the value of accreditation, several institutions have volunteered to go through the rigorous process of audit, the uniqueness of the process is that the duration for which any program oe institutions will have to maintain the quality and standard, if they wish to retain the accredited standard.
What is the difference between AICTE approval and NBA Accreditation ?
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 output, to avoid imbalance in supply of qualified manpower.
Accreditation of the Institutional Programmes by NBA is based
Availability of potential for sustaining and improving upon assessment criteria
Recognition by all stake holders like the end-users, institutional products and the community at large
Demonstrated capability of the institution and programme to adhere to the qualitative criteria of Accreditation
Assessement by peer groups of NBA experts through a visit to the institution and making relevant
recommendations to the NBA.
Which programmes come under Accreditation by NBA ?
Under the provisions of the AICTE Act of 1987 all diploma, degree and post graduate programmes coming under the following disciplines are covered under Accreditation by NBA
Engineering and Technology
Management
Architecture
Pharmacy
Hotel management and Catering Technology
Town and Country Planning
Applied Arts and Crafts
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