Haryana Education Minister Ram Bilas Sharma on Saturday said that the Higher Education department has designed a framework PRaYAAS- ‘Performance Rating Yardstick for Academic Audit Standards’ to improve the overall performance of government colleges of the state.
"This framework has three component which cover, State or Private Universities, government colleges, aided and self-financing colleges of the state. In the first phase, it had been decided to roll out this framework for the government colleges," the minister said in a statement.
Under the 10 components, the scoring of governing colleges would be measured from out of the total 500 marks and later results would be drawn. With this framework, good colleges would emerge as brand and there would also be competitive spirit in colleges. This would also help students in choosing a better college.
Sharma said that this framework has been designed to improve the overall quality of Higher education institutes in the state and enable them towards the path of excellence. The performance of these institutions would be judged by the ratings done through this framework.
He said that under the framework, focus would be on 10 components which included Academic quality, Teaching and learning quality, Research Quality and Impact, Collaboration or Strategic Alliances, Employability, Infrastructure, Inclusivity, Representation and Diversity, Student Engagement or Support Services, Outreach activities and Social Impact and Governance and Management, for which there is weightage of 500 marks.