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Development of Education System

Notes • The NAAC has identified the following seven criteria to serve as the basis for its assessment
procedures: 1. Curricular Aspects; 2. Teaching-Learning and Evaluation; 3. Research,
Consultancy and Extension; 4. Infrastructure and Learning Resources; 5. Student Support
and Progression.
• The activities and future plans of the NAAC are guided by its vision and mission that
focus on making quality assurance an integral part of the functioning of higher education
institutions. The NAAC has the following prime objectives : to make quality the defining
element of higher education in India through a combination of self and external quality
evaluation, promotion and sustenance initiatives; to arrange for periodic assessment and
accreditation of institutions of higher education or units thereof, or specific academic
programme or projects; to stimulate the acadmic environment for promotion of quality of
teaching-learning and research in higher education institutions
• Collect the statistical data with regards to seven criteria
• Get the ‘School Profile’ prepared
• Get the ‘Profile of the Administrative Section’ prepared
• Submission of LOI (Letter of Intent)
• Collect the School wise & Administration section wise data based on Questionnaire of NAAC
• Preparation of RAR
• 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).
• The main objective of the NCTE is: 1. to achieve planned and coordinated development of
the teacher education system throughout the country; 2. The mandate given to the NCTE
is very broad and covers the whole gamut of teacher education programmes including; 3.
research and training of persons for equipping them to teach at pre-primary, primary,
secondary and senior secondary stages in schools.
• NCTE has its headquarter at New Delhi and four Regional Committees at Bangalore,
Bhopal, Bhubaneswar and Jaipur to look after its statutory responsibilities. In order to
enable the NCTE to perform the assigned functions including planned and co-ordinate
development and initiating innovations in teacher education, the NCTE in Delhi as well as
its four Regional Committees have administrative and academic wings to deal respectively
with finance, establishment and legal matters and with research, policy planning,
monitoring, curriculum.
• The main functions of NCTE fall into two categories: 1. Providing a range of ICT-related
support services to schools; 2. Policy development, strategic and administrative functions.
• Providing relevant and up to date ICT advice and support to schools on a range of
appropriate and suitable technologies
• Coordinating the Schools Broadband Programme for all primary and post-primary schools,
and managing the Broadband Service Desk as a single point of contact for schools to
support the delivery of online content and learning resources
• Designing and delivering a comprehensive national programme of continuing professional
development for teachers to assist them in integrating ICT into learning and teaching
• Providing advice to & developing policy proposals for the Department of Education and
Skills (DES) on issues related to the development & use of ICT in the Irish education system.
• Providing support to the Minister as regards strategic issues relating to ICT and education
• Providing information and advice to other educational agencies on ICT in education
• Encouraging the integration of ICT in education across other organisations, agencies, and
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