Objectives:
- 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 towar5ds quality enhancement through internalization of quality culture and institutionalization of best practices.
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 student, 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 workshop, seminars on quality related themes and promotion of quality circles;
- Documentation of the various programmes and 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 Culty Culture in the institution;
- Preparation of the Annual Quality Assurance Report (AQAR) as per guidelines of NAAC, to be submitted to NAAC.
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 proper allocation of support structure and services;
- Sharing of research findings and networking with other institutions in India and abroad.
Benefits:
IQAC will facilitate/contribute to
- 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.
