ABSTRACT
Increasing globalization, rising competition levels and growing concerns over the employability of students have led to the urgent need to establish norms for quality assurance, monitoring and accreditation of higher education in India. This chapter provides indicators from the UGC and the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) to measure the quality of higher education in India. The process of quality assessment followed by NAAC involves seven criteria: Curricular Aspects, Teaching-Learning and Evaluation, Research, Consultancy and Extension, Infrastructure and Learning Resources, Student Support and Progression, Governance and Leadership and lastly, Innovative Practices. The quality of higher education system in a country can to some extent be gauged from the pass percentages in different courses and their trend over the years. Thus, a statistical system needs to be established that will measure the quality level in India’s higher education sector in terms of institutional capabilities as well as output produced.
