Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC)
Objectives of IQAC
- To develop a system for conscious, consistent and catalytic action to improve the academic and administrative performance of the institution.
- To promote measures for institutional functioning towards quality enhancement through internalization of quality culture and institutionalization of best practices.
Strategies
- Ensuring timely, efficient and progressive performance of academic, administrative and financial tasks. - The relevance and quality of academic and research programs. - Equitable access to and affordability of academic programs for various sections of society. - Optimization and integration of modern methods of teaching. - The credibility of evaluation procedures. - Ensuring the adequacy, maintenance and proper allocation of support structure and services. - Sharing of research findings and networking with other institutions in India and abroad.
Functions
- Developments and applications of quality benchmarks/parameters for various academic and administrative activities of the institution; - Facilitating the creation of a learner-centric environment conducive to quality education and faculty maturation to adopt the required knowledge and technology for participatory teaching and learning process; - Arrangement for feedback response from students, parants and other stakeholders on quality-related institutional processes; - Dissemination of information on various quality parameters of higher education; - Organization of intra-institutional workshops, seminars on quality related themes and promotion of quality circles; - Documentation of various programs /activities leading to quality improvements;. - Acting as a nodal agency of the institution for coordinating quality-related activities including adoption and dissemination of best practices; - Development and maintenance of institutional data base through MIS for the purpose of maintaining/enhancing the institutional quality; - Development of quality culture in the institution; - Preparation of the Annual Quality Assurance Report (AQAR) as per guidelines and parameters of NAAC, to be submitted to NAAC.
Benefits
- Ensure heightened level of clarity and focus in institutional functioning towards quality enhancement; - Ensure internalization of quality culture; - Ensure enhancement and coordination among various activities of the institution and institutionalize all good practices; - Provide a sound basis for decision making to improve institutional functioning; - Act as a dynamic system for quality changes in HEIs; - Build an organized methodology of documentation and internal communication.