摘要：India has the third largest system of higher education in the world; next only to USA and China. To have uniformity in quality of Higher Education in India, the Program of Action (PoA) 1992 of NPE, 1986 emphasized the need for a mechanism to be setup to encourage self-assessment in institutions and also 'Assessment and Accreditation' of the same by an external agency. In this context, the setting up of the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) on 16th September, 1994 was a historic step. To assess the Quality of Higher Educational Institutions including Teacher Educational Institutions, NAAC make use of a 07 point criterion which include assessment of curriculum, research, Infrastructure and governance etc. On the basis of CGPA obtained by any Institution in NAAC's evaluation, grades are accreditated to Institutions. But the problem lies in the fact that there is only one criteria of Assessment and Accreditation followed by NAAC for all institutions of Higher education including all Colleges of Education, Physical Education etc. In order to see whether this criteria of Assessment and Accreditation for colleges of education need to be changed or not, this study on the assessment and accreditation criteria of NAAC was undertaken.
