C10M01U02L01 National Board of Accreditation RKD
C10M01U02L01 National Board of Accreditation RKD
C10M01U02L01 National Board of Accreditation RKD
The New Education Policy of 1986 recognized the need for a Statutory Body at the National
level responsible for overseeing the growth and quality of Technical Education in the
country. Accordingly, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) was established by
an Act of Parliament in 1987.
NBA conducts evaluation of programs of technical institution on the basis of laid down
norms.
NBA in its present form has come into existence as on autonomous body with effect from
7th January 2010, with the objective of assurance of quality and relevance of technical
education through the mechanism of accreditation of programs offered by the technical
institutions.
The NBA works very closely with stakeholders (faculty, educational institutions,
government, industries, regulators, management, recruiters, alumni, students and their
parents) to ensure that the programmes serve to prepare their graduates with sound
knowledge of fundamentals and to develop in them an adequate level of professional
competence, such as would meet the needs of the technical profession locally as well as
globally.
The objective of the NBA is to assess and accredit professional programmes offered at
various levels by the technical institutions on the basis of norms prescribed by the NBA.
The NBA became a provisional member of the Washington Accord in 2007. NBA became
full signatory to the member of the Washington Accord (WA) in 2014.
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VISION
The vision of the NBA is “to be an accrediting agency of international repute by ensuring the
highest degree of credibility in assurance of quality and relevance of professional education
and come to the expectations of its stakeholders, viz., academicians, corporate, educational
institutions, government, industry, regulators, students, and their parents.”
MISSION
The NBA is working with the mission, “to stimulate the quality of teaching, self– evaluation,
and accountability in the higher education system , which help institutions realise their
academic objectives and adopt teaching practices that enable them to produce high- quality
professionals and to assess and accredit the programmes offered by the colleges or the
institutions, or both, imparting technical and professional education.”
OBJECTIVES OF NBA
The following are the broad objectives of NBA
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