New Delhi, July 29 -- The National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) will launch a new accreditation system in August for higher education institutions, replacing physical inspections with AI-driven assessment and online document verification.

The NAAC aims to accredit over 90 per cent of higher education institutions across the country within the next five years through the new framework, said the NAAC Chairman, Prof Anil Sahasrabudhe, in an interaction with ANI.

The framework will comprise a basic accreditation system and a more advanced maturity-based graded-level accreditation. The new system will replace an existing eight-point grading structure.

"The earlier model had nearly 90 parameters, 70 per cent of which were veri...