INSTITUTIONAL BEST PRACTICES: AN OVERVIEW IN CONTEXT OF NAAC

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“Best” implies the unique or the “topmost”, however, ”Best Practice”, implies according to the Oxford dictionary, not something unique to an individual or an institution but a “way of doing something that is the usual or expected way in a particular organization or situation: common/ current/ standard practice”. The connotation of “best practices”, as used by the NAAC, is broader. According to NAAC ‘best practices are quality enhancing academic/ administrative/ infrastructural strategies adopted by highly accredited institutions of higher learning in the present instance’. Best practices are those which add value to human life and support the main cause of an institution. Institutions undertake different types of best practices as per their institutional environment and try to bring about innovations and new ideas. Emphasis on the use of technology has become the driving force in today’s education system. NAAC consider it as one of the significant best practice which can boost the educational atmosphere and could instill the scientific approach to issues or problems of society. Conclusively, best practices are the agents of positive change for a particular educational institution and society as well. NAAC firmly believes that quality and excellence should be the vision of every higher education institution.

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