Bihar: Magadh University gears up for NAAC assessment

GAYA: The Magadh University administration has asked teachers to make their updated profiles available so that the same could be uploaded to the website of the varsity. The instruction came ahead of the assessment of the university by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC).
In 2015, MU had got C grade in NAAC assessment due to which it was deprived of financial grants on some occasions.The varsity administration is now making all efforts to improve grade. Since 2019, the NAAC assessment is being done through online mode and the university or the college has to upload the information annually. The marking is done through auto generated system. The NAAC team visits the campus for verification of the information uploaded and it reserves the right to deduct the marks obtained for uploading wrong information.
“The university or the college has to upload information about teaching and the non-teaching staff, the working strength, conventional and professional courses offered, seats allotted for each course, number of students enrolled, seminars, conferences, sports events and achievements of teachers and the students,” said Aftab Ahmad Khan, teacher of zoology at Mirza Ghalib College and coordinator of the NAAC assessment at the college. “In the last NAAC assessment, Mirza Ghalib College had obtained B grade,” he added.
MU vice-chancellor Rajendra Prasad has constituted internal quality assurance cell (IQAC), comprising senior teachers like Sushil Kumar Singh, Bharat Bhushan, Ehtesham Khan, Vinay Kumar, Sushil Kumar, Raushan Kumar, Divya Mishra and Ekta Verma, for the purpose of the proposed NAAC assessment.