IQAC Details
Internal Quality Assurance Cell
The national assessment and accreditation council advocates the establishment of internal quality assurance cell (IQAC) by all the accredited institutions as a post accreditation quality sustenance activity.
Objective
The primary aim of the IQAC is to develop a system for conscious, consistent and catalytic action to improve the academic and administrative performance of the institution.
Functions
Development and application of quality benchmarks /parameters for the various academic and administrative activities of the institution.
Dissemination of information on the various quality parameters of higher education.
Organization of workshops, seminars on quality related themes and promotion of quality circles.
Documentation of the various programmers’ /activities leading to quality improvement.
Preparation of the Annual Quality Assurance Report (AQAR) to be submitted to NAAC based on the quality parameters.
Strategies
Ensuring timely, efficient and progressive performance of academic, administrative and financial tasks.
Optimization and integration of modern methods of teaching, learning and evaluation.
Ensuring the adequacy, maintenance and functioning of the support structure.
Benefits
To a heightened level of clarity and focus in institutional functioning towards quality enhancement and facilitate internalization of the quality culture.
To the enhancement and integration among the various activities of the institution and institutionalize many good practices.
To provide a sound basis for decision making to improve institutional functioning.
To act as a change agent in the institution.
To better internal communication.
Duties and Responsibility
Designing and implementing Annual Plans for institution-level activities for quality enhancement.
Arrange for feedback responses from students for quality-related institutional processes.
Development and application of quality benchmarks/parameters for the various academic and administrative activities of the institution.
Retrieval of information on various quality parameters of higher education and best practices followed by other institutions.
Organization of workshops and seminars on quality- related themes and promotion of quality circles and institution-wide dissemination of the proceedings of such activities.
Development and application of innovative practices in various programmers’ /activities leading to quality enhancement
Participation in the creation of a learner –centric environment conductive for quality education.
Work for the development of internalization and institutionalization of quality enhancement policies and practices.
Act as a nodal unit of the institution for augmenting quality- related activities.
Prepare focused Annual Quality Assurance Reports (AQARs)