State Accreditation and Assessment Council (SAAC) to be formed

Trivandrum, 4 November 2011: Government of Kerala plans to set up a a State Accreditation and Assessment Council for undertaking quality assessment of educational institutions and their staff in the state.

A recommendation in this regard has been put forward by the Kerala State Higher Education Council (KSHEC) and announced by KSHEC Vice Chairman TP Sreenivasan yesterday.

The State Accreditation and Assessment Council to be known as SAAC will be similar to the existing National Accreditation and Assessment Council (NAAC) of the UGC. Other decisions by the KSHEC include cluster of colleges scheme and establishment of IIT, an open university and a Malayalam university in Kerala.