Which of the following is included among the core values promoted by NAAC…

Concept

An accreditation body’s core values express broad educational outcomes and institutional commitments. They are different from policy-making functions, a particular religious curriculum, or an ownership model for education.

NAAC identifies five core values for higher-education institutions: contributing to national development, fostering global competencies among students, inculcating a value system, promoting the use of technology, and pursuing excellence.

Application

The stem asks which offered activity is associated with NAAC’s core-value framework. The choice about fostering global competencies is the only one that names a published NAAC core value; policy protocols, religious education, and total privatisation are different kinds of proposals.

Contrast

• Framing National Education Protocols describes policy formulation rather than a NAAC core value.

• Promoting religious education describes a curriculum emphasis rather than a NAAC core value.

• Total privatisation of education describes an ownership arrangement rather than a NAAC core value.

• Fostering global competencies among students and teachers names the offered activity built around NAAC’s published global-competencies value, although NAAC’s exact label says “among students.”

Cross-check

NAAC’s exact published wording is “Fostering Global Competencies among Students”; the offered phrase adds “and teachers.” Even with that wording imprecision, it is the only offered choice that names a NAAC core value. Therefore, the best-supported answer among the offered choices is “Fostering global competencies among students and teachers.”