Answer: B
(NCTE – National Council of Teacher Education, NAAC – National Accreditation and Assessment Council) For achieving professional objectives an MOU was signed on 16th August 2002 by the National Council for Teacher Education and the National Assessment and Accreditation Council. As follow up activities to the MOU, the NCTE and the NAAC have developed a manual for self-assessment of teacher education institutions, constituted a steering group for planning and monitoring assessment and accreditation of teacher education institutions and pl anned the Pune Conference on the theme ‘Self appraisal and Accreditation of Teacher Education Institutions as a Development-oriented Process’. The scheme of assessment and accreditation will help institutions to carry out their strength, weakness, opportunity and threat analysis, and in making their pr ogrammes more attractive to the students and to their potential employers. The norms and standards evolve with strengthening of the capacity of the system and commitment for raising the quality of the programme, which will be revealed by the system of assessment and accreditation. The NCTE is now looking forward to using assessment and accreditation as an effective instrument for determination and maintenance of norms and standards for teacher education programmes.