Saturday, January 15, 2011

Deemed Universities and et al.. The Recognition issue

UGC has considered re-evaluating the 44 Deemed Universities it has originally planned to derecognize. How do students make a decision about the genuineness of the Universities:-

1) The University has to be recognized by UGC. [http://www.ugc.ac.in/]
2) The University should be a member of Association of Indian Universities. [http://www.aiuweb.org/]

For genuineness of institutes that offer courses like PGDBA, PGDM etc:-

1) The Institute has to be recognized by AICTE. [www.aicte-india.org]
2) The course curriculum has to be evaluated by National Board of Accreditation[www.nba-india.org]

There are some institutes that are adament about not getting an accreditation. This is a foolish thing to do as they are not measurable as per national and international standards. The students should be aware of such institutes as they will face problems for higher studies and visa in India and Foreign countries.

Thursday, January 6, 2011

It seems that we have followed a good path for DOEACC B-Level recognition

Just happened to come across the following prospectus from Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneshwar - a premier B-School of our country.

http://www.ximb.ac.in/ximb/fileadmin/templates/XIMB/pdf/PGDM_Bulletin_2011.pdf

They have done their evaluation with NARIC and got a British Masters for their PGDM (See the above link. Tip: Search for NARIC in the pdf file).

I have always maintained that a strength of a course is measured by it's global acceptance and benchmarks. To remind you guys, DOEACC B-Level has been evaluated at British Bachelor's (Honours) Degree by NARIC.

It seems that international benchmarks are in things to do right now, in a globalized economy for all good institutions. DOEACC has  loads of international recognitions.
Kudos to us...