IQAC

  • Objectives

    The primary objective of IQAC is:

    • 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

    IQAC evolves mechanisms and procedures for:

    • Ensuring timely, efficient and progressive performance of academic, administrative and financial tasks
    • The relevance and quality of academic and research programmes
    • Equitable access to and affordability of academic programmes for various sections of society
    • Optimization and integration of modern methods of teaching and learning
    • 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

    Some of the functions expected of the IQAC are:

    • Development and application 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, parents and other stakeholders on quality-related institutional processes
    • Dissemination of information on various quality parameters of higher education
    • Organization of inter and intra institutional workshops, seminars on quality related themes and promotion of quality circles
    • Documentation of the various programmes/activities leading to quality improvement
    • 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 database 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

    IQAC will facilitate/contribute:

    • Ensure heightened level of clarity and focus in institutional functioning towards quality enhancement
    • Ensure internalization of the 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 organised methodology of documentation and internal communication