New Delhi, Aug. 23 (IANS): To increase the number of accreditation and assessment agencies (AAAs) for higher education institutes in the country, the University Grants Commission (UGC) has decided to appoint an Accreditation Advisory Council (AAC) which will help the commission set up more such agencies.
“To enhance the existing capacity of accreditation for meeting the requirement of higher education institutes, it has been decided to allow more accreditation agencies to come into this sphere of activity,” UGC told the university VCs in a letter on Thursday.
The UGC has also notified a ‘University Grants Commission (Recognition and Monitoring of AAAs) Regulations-2018’, which, it said, was published in the official Gazette of India on Auguest 20.
