INTERNAL QUALITY ASSURANCE CELL (IQAC)

IQAC

The Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) is a body for promoting quality. It ensures continuous improvement in all aspects of the institution’s operations and assures stakeholders associated with higher education, such as students, parents, teachers, staff, prospective employers, funding agencies, and society in general, of the institution’s accountability for its own quality and probity. The IQAC develops systems and processes to ensure timely, efficient, and progressive completion of academic, administrative, and financial responsibilities, as well as equal access to and affordability of academic courses for diverse segments of society. It also emphasises on the optimisation and integration of current teaching and learning approaches. The IQAC promotes research collaboration and networking with other universities in India and throughout the world.

Vision

To create and sustain a quality culture by dependable, and transparent activities that include self- and external quality evaluation, promotion, and sustenance initiatives and programmes.

Mission

To channelize and systematize actions and strategies towards academic excellence and quality based on value driven knowledge generation and sensitization to socio-ethical issues.

Objective

The primary aim of the IQAC is:
• To develop a mechanism to promote conscious, consistent and catalytic 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

IQAC shall evolve a mechanism and procedures for
a) Ensuring timely, efficient and progressive performance of academic, administrative and financial units;
b) Adoption of relevant and quality academic and research programmes;
c) Ensuring equitable access to and affordability of academic programmes for various sections of the society;
d) Optimization and integration of modern methods of teaching and learning;
e) Ensuring credible assessment and evaluation processes;
f) Ensuring the proper allocation, adequacy and maintenance of support structure and services;
g) Sharing of research findings and networking with other institutions in India and abroad.

Functions

a) Development and application of quality benchmarks;
b) Setting parameters for various academic and administrative activities of the institution;
c) Facilitating the creation of a learner-centric environment conducive to quality education and faculty development to adopt the required knowledge and technology for participatory teaching and learning process;
d) Collection and analysis of feedback from all the stakeholders on quality-related institutional processes;
e) Dissemination of information on various quality parameters to all the stakeholders;
f) Organization of intra- and inter-institutional workshops and seminars on quality- related themes and promotion of quality circles;
g) Documentation of various programmes/activities leading to quality improvement;
h) Acting as a nodal agency of the institution for coordinating quality-related activities, including adoption and dissemination of the best practices;
i) Development and maintenance of institutional database through MIS for the purpose of maintaining and enhancing institutional quality;
j) Periodical conduct of Academic and Administrative Audits along with their follow-up activities; and
k) Preparation and submission of the Annual Quality Assurance Report (AQAR) as per the guidelines and parameters of NAAC.

Benefits

IQAC will facilitate / contribute to
a) Ensuring clarity and focus in the institution’s march towards quality enhancement;
b) Ensuring internalization of quality culture;
c) Ensuring enhancement and coordination among the various units and activities of the institution and institutionalizing all good practices;
d) Providing a sound basis for decision-making to improve institutional functioning;
e) Acting as a dynamic system for quality changes in HEIs; and
f) Building a sound methodology for documentation and internal communication.