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Regulations pertaining to Accreditation of HEIs:

3. Objectives:
The process of assessment and accreditation shall have the following objectives:

a) to accord recognition to the quality and excellence of education imparted by Higher
Educational institutions, and thereby to advance academic quality;
b) to enable students and other stakeholder to make informed choices with regard to
Higher Educational Institutions;
c) To enable students, teachers and other stakeholders to provide inputs concerning the
quality of education imparted by the Higher Educational Institutions;

d) to facilitate Higher Educational Institutions to augment quality, by benchmarking
uniform reference points pertaining to academic standards;
e) to facilitate Higher Educational Institutions to secure additional funding and other
incentives, if found eligible, from appropriate regulatory and or funding agencies;

f) to facilitate Higher Educational Institutions to acquire international recognition cross-
border and trans-national collaborations;;
g) to facilitate students achieve learning outcomes appropriate to their course and relevant
to their context, as shall be declared by Higher Educational Institutions;
h) to facilitate students entitlements, as prescribed by the Commission or declared by the
Higher Educational Institution, as the case may be, to be met by Higher Educational
Institutions.

i) to facilitate teachers achieve and maintain teaching and research standards as shall be
declared by Higher Educational Institutions
j) to facilitate effective teaching-learning and access to quality-teaching learning material
in all the languages permitted by the Higher Educational Institution as medium of
instruction or examination; and
k) to facilitate Higher Educational Institution achieve effective governance mechanisms
in their management and administration.

4. Mandatory Assessment and Accreditation
4.1 it shall be mandatory for each Higher Educational Institution to get accredited by
the Accreditation Agency after passing out of two batches or six years, whichever is
earlier, in accordance With the norms and methodology prescribed by such agency or
the Commission, as the case may be.
4.2 Every Higher Education “Institution, which has completed six years of existence or
two batches having passed out, whichever is earlier, shall apply within six months from
the date of coming into force of These regulations, to the Accreditation Agency, for
accreditation.

4.3 The Higher Educational Institutions, which have completed six years of existence or
two batches having passed out, whichever is earlier, shall, within a period of six months
from date of such completion, apply to the Accreditation Agency for accreditation.
4.4 Every Higher Educational operations after coming into force of these regulations, shall
apply for assessment and accreditation to the Assessment and Accreditation Agency, as
per Clause 4.1 above.

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