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Unit 13: Functions of UGC, NAAC and NCTE

• Preparation of RAR Notes
• Organise MOCK visits before actual Peer Team Visit
• Suggest Development of Infrastructure & Academics
• Suggest formation of various committees as per guidelines of NAAC
Self Assessment
2. State whether the following statements are ‘True’ or ‘False’.
(i) National assessment and accreditation council, an autonomous body has been established
by university grants commission.
(ii) The Indian higher education system is in a constant state of change and flux due to the
increasing needs of expanding access to higher education.
(iii) The NAAC has identified the five criteria to serve as the basis for its assessment.
(iv) There is not any provision and a separate process to assess and accredit the departments
of an institution.

13.5 National Council of Teacher Education

Since 1973, the National Council for Teacher Education was an advisory body for the Central
and State Governments on all matters pertaining to teacher education, with its Secretariat in the
Department of Teacher Education of the National Council of Educational Research and Training
(NCERT). Despite its commendable work in the academic fields, it could not perform essential
regulatory functions, to ensure maintenance of standards in teacher education and preventing
rise of substandard teacher education institutions. The National Policy on Education (NPE),
1986 and the Programme of Action thereunder, envisaged a National Council for Teacher
Education with statutory status and necessary resources as a first step for overhauling the
system of teacher education.
13.5.1 Objective
The main objective of the NCTE is :
1. to achieve planned and coordinated development of the teacher education system
throughout the country.
2. the regulation and proper maintenance of Norms and Standards in the teacher education
system and for matters connected therewith.
3. The mandate given to the NCTE is very broad and covers the whole gamut of teacher
education programmes including.
4. research and training of persons for equipping them to teach at pre-primary, primary,
secondary and senior secondary stages in schools.
5. and non-formal education, part-time education, adult education and distance
(correspondence) education courses.
13.5.2 Organisational Structure
NCTE has its headquarder at New Delhi and four Regional Committees at Banglore, Bhopal,
Bhubaneshwar and Jaipur to look after its stautory responsibilities. In order to enable the
NCTE to perform the assigned functions including planned and co-ordinated development and
initiating innovations in teacher education, the NCTE in Delhi as well as its four Reginal
Committees have administrative and academic wings to deal respectively with finance,
establishment and legal matters and with research, policy planning, monitoring, curriculum,
innovations, co-ordination, library and documentation, inservice programmes. The NCTE

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