IQAC Functions

About IQAC

The National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) advocated the establishment of Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) by all the higher education institutions to pursue its action plan for performance evaluation, assessment and accreditation and quality up-gradation of the institution. The IQAC of our institution thus established. in order to monitor the enhancement and improvement of quality in terms of Teaching-Learning, Consultancy, Research & Development of institute and to get accredited on quality prospects.

The IQAC has become a part of the institution’s system and work towards realization of the goals of quality enhancement and enrichment. The prime task of the IQAC is to develop a system for conscious, consistent and catalytic improvement in the overall performance of institutions. It supervises in quality improvement by working out planned interventionist strategies to remove deficiencies and enhance quality.

Internal Quality Assurance Cell

Strategies

• Ensuring timely, efficient and progressive performance of academic, administrative and financial tasks
• Optimization and integration of modern methods of teaching and learning
• Ensuring the credibility of evaluation procedures
• Ensuring the adequacy, maintenance and functioning of the support structure and services
• Establish the relevance of academic quality to augment R&D activities
• Provide access to various cost-effective academic programme to all sections of society
• Use of modern methods of teaching and learning
• Develop suitable rubrics to attain and assess academic quality
• Deploy resources for strong support to infra-structure and technical-services
• Focus on resource mobilization for consultancy.

Functions

Some of the functions 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 programme/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 organized methodology of documentation and internal communication.