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Regulations pertaining to Accreditation of HEIs:

(d) “Articles of association” means articles of association of a company as defined in
Section 2(5) of the Companies Act, 2013
(e) “Assessment” means the process involved in ascertaining or verifying the capabilities
of an HEI in terms of its physical infrastructure, human resources (including faculty),
administration, course curricula, admission and student evaluation procedures and
governance structure prior to the commencement of its academic programmes;
(f) “Assessment and accreditation agency” means an agency registered under clause 5 of
these regulations;
(g) “Certificate of registration” means the certificate of registration of an assessment and
accreditation agency granted under clause 05 of these Regulations;

(h) “Code of ethics” includes integrity, objectivity, professional competence, professional
conduct, avoidance of conflict of interest, transparency and information disclosure and
such other ethical principles as may be specified in these regulations;

(i) “College” means any institution, whether known as such or by any other name which
provides for a course of study for obtaining any qualification from a university and
which, in accordance with the rules and regulations of such university, is recognized
as competent to provide for such course of study and present students undergoing such
course of study for the examination for the award of such qualification;
(j) “Commission” means the University Grants Commission as defined in the University
Grants Commission Act 1956;
(k) “Degree” means any such degree, as may, with the previous approval of the Central
Government, be specified in this behalf by the University Grants Commission,
by notification in the Official Gazette, under section 22 of the University Grants
Commission Act, 1956;
(l) “Diploma” means such award, not being a degree, granted by a university certifying
that the recipient has successfully completed a course of study of not less than nine
months duration;
(m) “Distance education systems” means the open and distance education systems as
specified by the Commission in the regulations for Open and Distance Education;

(n) “Higher Educational Institution” means an institution of learning including a university,
an institution deemed to be university, a college, an institution of national importance
declared as such by an Act of Parliament, or a constituent unit of such institution,
which is imparting (whether through conduct of regular classes or distance education
systems) higher education beyond twelve years of schooling leading to the award of a
degree or diploma;
(o) “Institution deemed to be University” means an institution declared by the Central
Government as deemed to be a university under section 3 of the University Grants
Commission Act, 1956;
(p) “Instrument of Trust” means, in case of a Trust, such instrument as defined under
section 3 of the Indian Trusts Act, 1882;
(q) “Memorandum of Association” means, in case of a company, such memorandum as
defined under sub-section (28) of section 2 of the Companies Act, 2013, or in case of
a society, such memorandum as specified under section 2 of the Societies Registration
Act, 1860;

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