NAAC Removes 900 Peer Assessors from Evaluation Duties
Jahnavi T.R. | 26 February 2025 | The Hindu
The National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) has removed 900 peer assessors from evaluation duty. These assessors were responsible for evaluating higher education institutions in the course of grading the institutions.
While the review of the work and conduct of assessors has been going on for nearly 18 months, the recent NAAC-Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation (KLEF) corruption case in Andhra Pradesh has speeded up the process. “Out of the 5,000 peer assessors we had onboarded for evaluation of higher education institutions, we had to remove 900 from duty. Over a period of one-and-a-half years, we have looked at various aspects like performance, feedback, variation in working protocols from multiple perspectives. There were some irregularities like travelling a day before the evaluation, providing incorrect information to us, going only to their choice of institutions and so on,” Ganesan Kannabiran, Director, NAAC, told The Hindu…