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NBA Accreditation: Definition, Benefits, and Process

Posted on by Hemant Mahajan

With the advancement in the education sector, the quality of education and learning is enhancing day by day, and the introduction of a new Accreditation process by the NBA in 2015 is one such change that can bring great impact in terms of quality of education & institutional practices. 

What is NBA Accreditation?

NBA, National Board of Accreditation is an accreditation agency representing India in the Washington Accord (WA). The NBA was established in 1994 and gained autonomy in the year 2010. Furthermore, it became a member of the Washington Accord in the year 2014. The main feature of the NBA is to assess the performance of higher education institutions issuing quality accreditation certificates to a specific program that complies with the quality Standards Criteria of the NBA. 

The NBA accreditation supports various programs on mission and vision statement, Programme outcomes, course outcomes, faculty contributions, students’ performance, teaching-learning process outcomes, infrastructure, and library management. 

Based on various criteria, NBA certification and accreditation support various funds, autonomous college status, deemed university status and having the authority of researching projects. 

Why is NBA Accreditation important?

Let’s say a higher education institution has NBA accreditation and carries the stamp of recognition for its education quality assurance at undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate levels. Universities and colleges need to have NBA accreditation for as stringent NBA accreditation criteria with the purpose that they are at par with international best practices. 

Having an NBA accreditation, higher education institutions can have better clarity of data, identification, and student encouragement that can lead to enhancement of the overall institution. 

Benefits of NBA Accreditation

  • Managing quality standards 

There are various ways through which an institution can manage quality standards, with NBA accreditation it becomes quite possible to meet stringent quality standards. Academia modules provide complete management to quality standards providing the necessity of students having to conduct a detailed analysis at college admission and management process. 

It signifies the commitment to excellence, students also get benefit from the process of continuity in the improvement of quality that is a part of the NBA’s approach to promoting excellence in technical education. 

  • Encourages trust in the institution

Institutions having NBA accreditation have a compulsion to meet and maintain high standards. This also increases trust and confidence among the public promoting accountability. This helps potential students and their families to have a certain level of trust in the institution for the amount of accreditation it receives. 

  • Improves students’ performance 

The modern generation of students expects an enhanced and advanced process of learning, teaching, examination, and result generation. Academia supports NBA accredited programs and supports Outcome-Based Education OBE, which can measure students on criteria like knowledge, skills, and attitude. Also, various facilities and curriculum ensure the student gets proper placement after their studies. 

  • Helps in SWOT analysis targeting better outcomes

Having NBA accreditation institutions can do a SWOT analysis, let’s say, evaluation of their strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities/threats. Academia with its modules helps in perfect evaluation, it helps the institution understand where it currently stands and how it should move forward. 

  • Promotes fund-raising

Accreditation necessarily helps educational institutions to secure and raise funds in the best ways. With the funding increasingly linked to effective performance and outcomes, accreditation would help institutions to avail performance-linked funding and incentives. 

  • Better mobility going forward

It is always important that educational institutions create transparency and provide mobility to educational institutions, it encourages and makes possible easing out the mobility to students and professionals at all levels. 

Enabling all the features that support accreditation, Academia facilitates higher mobility to students who are pursuing higher education. 

With the rise of the advanced education ecosystem, higher education institutions in India need to adopt the accreditation process to garner the benefits of the NBA program focusing on the betterment and growth of educational institutions. 

Process of NBA Accreditation for Higher Education Institutions 

  • Online Registration

Institutions seeking NBA certification need to have an online registration as the first step. Institutions can submit the required documents with the registration form using the ‘eNBA’ portal. 

  • Details Submission 

Moving to the portal, a permanent user ID along with password credentials is generated after the payment of the nominal registration fee. Utilizing the permanent Id, institutions can submit more details like the name of the head of the institution, information related to key promoters, institution’s bank details, proposing programs along with various approval letters and regulatory authority. 

  • SAR Report Generation

After this, the institution needs to prepare a self-assessment report (SAR). This whole process is done by self-evaluation of internal work processes & activities. This is an important step to have an institute apply corrective measures and improve the way it works.

  • Analysis & Evaluation by Committee Members

After completing all the processes, this phase is considered as an important one, it involves analysis and evaluation by the committee members of all the information covering all the areas in higher education institutions.

The major criteria for NBA certification depend on various factors like education outcomes, faculty performance, and overall facilities being provided to enhance students’ growth, the main goal of NBA accreditation is to maintain quality standards in many aspects and likewise.  

Closing Notes 

With this blog, I hope you got a good understanding of NBA accreditation and its advantages for your institution. 

There are various other things that you must know about, get in touch with us and the best of our team will get back to you to make a factful and interesting discussion. Contact us today! 

How Edtech Can Support Wellbeing in Higher Education?

Posted on by Hemant Mahajan

In the modern world, students and learners in the education sector are seeking more modern techniques & methods that can help them to be more innovative, tech-friendly, and creative in all aspects. So higher education institutions need to opt for pedagogical approaches like the adoption of Edtech technology that can lead towards student wellbeing and overall support.  

Education technology is emerging as one of the powerful tools that help in connecting students with modern learning opportunities. After this COVID-19 pandemic, we have seen the potential for using technology in the classroom and managing the institutions effectively, but institutions must envision a world understanding of how to improve student wellbeing in the best prospects. 

So, in this blog, let’s discuss ways through which higher education institutions should make Edtech more supportive and beneficial for faculty, students, and the overall institution.


 

How is Edtech beneficial for faculty?

Teaching to higher education students is not an easy job, it needs continuous learning, confidence, and knowledge about a particular subject as modern and grown-up students know and understand what needs to be taught to them and what is necessary for them in regards to education. 

Having the right set of technology, any faculty can enhance and expand their knowledge and expertise to give a smooth learning experience to their students. With the expansion of Edtech, there are various technologies like smartboards, projectors, online learning tools, ERP/SIS for academic and administrative tools that can help faculty in self-grooming along with focusing on self and student wellbeing. 

How is Edtech beneficial for students?

The ultimate goal of any educational institution is to provide quality education to students, the possibilities of modern education using the old and traditional methods is being difficult in today’s times. Even this COVID-19 pandemic has taught institutions how important it is to opt for technology that can promote modern ways of teaching and learning. Opting for Edtech platforms like ERP, LMS, and more, institutions can attain a systematic mode of education for students leading to institutional growth and success.  

How is Edtech beneficial for institutions?

In today’s world, the education sector is considered one of the most broadest and important sectors that are growing with pace. So it is high time for institutions to opt for Edtech tools that can admire more growth focusing on student wellbeing and technological support. Meanwhile, it is also known that educational institutions include a multitude of tasks right from the admission to the alumni of the students, various academic and administrative operations are needed to be performed by faculty, students, and staff, and following the same and old traditional methods increases more chances of errors, chaos, and mismanagement. Edtech tools like ERP/SIS help institutions to maintain all the academic and administrative operations more flexibly and systematically target students’ wellbeing, faculty satisfaction, and overall well-being of the institution. 

Now, to understand it more let’s quickly check why Edtech is helpful in institutional wellbeing:-

Why is Edtech helpful in institutional wellbeing?

  • Creates new approach for academic and administrative operations 

By choosing Edtech tools like ERP/SIS, higher education institutions get the opportunity to replace traditional models with a new set of automation visioning complete digital transformation and efficient management in the institution. Here it is also important to note that transferring into a new model or technology requires proper implementation, strategies, operators, educators, administrators, and a little patience. A combination of all these qualities opens doors of growth and opportunities for the institution.  

  • Makes a growth path

Looking back to the past few years, the education sector has faced maximum challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic, meanwhile, institutions who have opted for modern technological tools found a way to survive and provide a more systematic approach to students. Edtech tools help institutions to make a growth path completing modern students and faculty needs along with making all the institutional tasks efficient and systematic. 

  • Helps in redesigning learning models 

Students of today’s generation are grown up using various technologies easing out their various day-to-day tasks, so they expect the same in learning methods as well; simple and tech-friendly technology modules that can help in efficient learning and practices. Edtech tools like ERP, SIS, and LMS help institutions provide a more systematic and simplified form of learning & teaching patterns for students along with redesigning and creating different learning models for students. 

So, wanna enter into the Edtech world? What’s next!

I hope you liked the blog and got to know about how Edtech can support wellbeing in higher education! So, which technology are you using to make your teaching & learning processes easier and efficient along with making every operation systematic and simple? Let’s discuss and we will help you out to find the right technology set that can help your institution in achieving not just success but more opportunities and growth. Write to us now at contact@serosoft.com or request your demo now!

 

How Higher Education ERP System Drives Positive ROI for Educational Institutions?

Posted on by Hemant Mahajan

What is that extra factor that you are using in your institute to increase ROI? Have you ever paid attention to ROI improvement? Every institution wants to have more revenue generation but doesn’t know how to do that. An ERP can effectively and efficiently manage all your academic and administrative tasks making everything simple, easy, and flexible, it will also focus on cost-saving – targeting an overall increase in ROI. Let’s discuss how automation of processes through a higher education ERP system in your institution helps improve the ROI of your educational institution, You can also use our – Education ERP ROI Calculation.

How can Higher Education ERP drive positive ROI for your institution?

Academic Activities 

  • Save paper and decrease administrative workloads 

The basic and most important feature of any higher education ERP is to digitize and automate maximum operations in the institution. An ERP can control user onboarding jobs like student admission, library management, teacher onboarding process, and many more to name a few. It provides automation and digitization, saving paper and decreasing administrative workloads and costs leading to increased ROI.

  • Provides excellent time management 

If you ever got a chance to handle and operate a higher education institution, you may have known that manual interventions take so much time along with creating extra expenses in each operation. These tasks take a lot of time, and as a result, your co-workers end up investing less time in educating students. With the help of higher education ERP solutions, one can easily handle all these tasks and save enormous time along with expecting a high return on ROI. 

  • Analytics and report 

Analytics and reports can significantly transform the way of working by enabling new ways for prospecting students when involved in an ERP help in increasing student enrollment, improving student retention and completion rates, along boosting faculty productivity and research. Analytics gives teachers’ performance and higher management along with managing day-to-day operations of any educational institution helping in increasing and better ROI. 

  • Examination and mark-sheet management

The examination is considered as one of the most important tasks in any educational institution, it requires a lot of pre and post preparation having multiple tasks like timetable management, paper execution, providing enrollment number and roll number to students creating exam sheets, checking the exam sheets, declaring results, and many other things. Performing these tasks manually takes lots of time, effort, and a lot of expenses, and a very less return on investment. An ERP can make the examination and mark-sheet management process easy and effective. The complete examination process can be accessed easily and with very little expense targeting high ROI using automation. 

  • Certificate & document management

In an educational institution, there is an abundance of data that needs to be managed properly so that it can be accessed whenever required. Manual interventions of certificates and document management take a lot of time and effort. Using an ERP solution, it will become easy to arrange all the documents and certificates in a system having access with just one click. 

Using the system, it will also become easy to distribute any certificates & documents to students, parents, and faculty through the mobile app or portal leading to fewer expenses in managing the documents and distributing the documents. 

Administrative Activities 

  • Admission management

Admissions are considered as one of the most important tasks for any institution, it includes a variety of tasks, a lot of queries related to classes, courses & programs, form submission, enrollment number allotment, and various other things that include time and unnecessary expenses. A Higher Education ERP works necessary to automate all the processes making it simple, efficient, and user-friendly saving time and unnecessary expenses initiating towards high ROI and growth for the institution. 

  • Fee management 

Managing fee records in an institution is difficult if done manually, there are multiple fee structures, various departments, and n-number of students; it’s an art to keep track of everything and be able to access the exact details whenever required. It also equips a lot of time, lacks flexibility, unnecessary expenses, and less return on investment. 

Meanwhile, all these processes can be handled smoothly if they can be managed using a fee management system and a higher education ERP. It manages all the tasks easily and efficiently providing proper data management and fee transactions. Saving the institute from any type of data breach and money malfunctions focusing on high return on ROI. 

  • Infirmary & Hostel management 

Infirmary and hostel management are also considered important tasks for any educational institution owning and managing a hostel as well. There are a lot of tasks like taking care of meals of the students, managing their infirmary, and regular doctor checkups, and more other tasks that need to be managed properly. Manual intervention of this includes more expenses and time, a higher education ERP provides complete management of this process leading to no or fewer expenses involved along with targeting high Return on Investment. 

 

Student Engagement 

  • Messaging & notifications 

Communication is one of the strongest assets that directly helps in institutional growth and success. It builds trust and avoids the disposal of improper information. 

A higher education ERP having a proper portal or mobile app clears all sorts of gaps making crystal clear communication between faculties, administrators, and students enhancing the student-faculty collaboration as well. A clear line of communication triggers the right growth and opportunities for the institution leading to high return on investment and profits. 

  • Disciple management 

The educational institution needs to focus the most on the discipline and personal development of students that sometimes goes secondary due to manual process and excessive burden on faculties. A higher education ERP provides complete discipline management, capturing misconduct details, capturing discipline committee details, capturing appeal details, capturing sanction details, and many others that initiates growth opportunities for institutions leaving a direct or indirect impact on ROI. 

How Academia can help you in increasing your ROI?

Academia is one of the best ERP systems, an award-winning ERP system that helps automate and manage the entire campus operations, administration, learning needs, and high return on investment in a very effective way. 

Highlights through which Academia can help you in increasing ROI:

  • Reduced operating expenses 
  • More growth in the same amount of time and growth
  • Reduction in cost of acquisition for new students 
  • Reduced customization cost in each segment i.e, admission, fee, examination, etc. 
  • Reduced hardware costs 

There are many more features that Academia provides that can help you in saving unnecessary costs and expenses focusing on high ROI, profits, growth, and opportunities of an institute. 

Wrapping Up

So, what are you waiting for? High return, growth, and opportunities are not so far for you and your institution. A higher education ERP can bring them all for you easily and effectively. Let’s connect so that you can better understand how an ERP can help you in proper ways. Request your demo now! 

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