IQAC
INTERNAL QUALITY ASSURANCE CELL (IQAC)
IQAC – VISION
To promote quality culture as the prime concern of Higher Education Institutions through institutionalizing and internalizing all the quality-enhancing and sustaining initiatives taken with internal and external support.
OBJECTIVE
The primary aim of the IQAC is
- To play the role of a catalyst and develop a mechanism to promote conscious and consistent action plans to improve the academic and administrative performance of the institution.
- To promote institutional quality enhancement and sustenance through the internalization of quality culture and institutionalization of the best practices.
STRATEGIES
- 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 functioning of the support structure and services
- Research sharing and networking with other institutions in India and abroad
FUNCTIONS
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
- 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
IQAC MOM and Action Taken Report
CRITERION I – CURRICULAR ASPECTS
1.1.2 Syllabus Revision
- BoS Minutes
- Syllabus
1.1.3
Courses Focusing on employability/entrepreneurship/skill development
Minutes of BoS / Academic Council
CRITERION II – TEACHING-LEARNING AND EVALUATION
CRITERION III – RESEARCH, INNOVATIONS AND EXTENSION
3.3.2
- Workshop / Seminar conducted on research, IPR, entrepreneurship:1-10
- Workshop / Seminar conducted on research, IPR, entrepreneurship:11-20
- Workshop / Seminar conducted on research, IPR, entrepreneurship:21-30
- Workshop / Seminar conducted on research, IPR, entrepreneurship:31-40
- Workshop / Seminar conducted on research, IPR, entrepreneurship:41-50
- Workshop / Seminar conducted on research, IPR, entrepreneurship:51-60
- Workshop / Seminar conducted on research, IPR, entrepreneurship:61-70
- Workshop / Seminar conducted on research, IPR, entrepreneurship:71-80
- Workshop / Seminar conducted on research, IPR, entrepreneurship:81-90
CRITERION IV – INFRASTRUCTURE AND LEARNING RESOURCES
4.1.1 Adequate infrastructure and physical facilities for teaching-learning, viz.,
classrooms, laboratories, computing equipments, etc.
- Classrooms
- Laboratories
- Seminar Halls
- Conference Halls
- Physical Infrastructure and Layout
- Equipment
- Specification of Class rooms, Laboratories, Seminar Halls, Conference Halls
CRITERION V – STUDENT SUPPORT AND PROGRESSION
CRITERION VI – GOVERNANCE, LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT
6.1.1 The governance of the institution is reflective of an effective leadership in tune with the vision and mission of the Institution
- Vision and misson
- Governing Council Minutes
- Statutory and non-Statutory committee list
- Academic Council Minutes
- Organization Chart
6.1.2 Effective leadership is reflected in various institutional practices such as decentralization and participative management
6.2.1 The institutional Strategic/ Perspective plan has been clearly articulated and implemented
6.2.2
Additional Information
6.2.3