IQAC (INTERNAL QUALITY ASSURANCE CELL)

Objectives, Strategies, Functions, Benefits, Operational Features and Monitoring Mechanisms

Dear Colleagues,

It is my pleasure to convey that, our Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) was established in the year 2011. The Cell has been functioning as integral part of our Academic and Administrative activities. Post NAAC (National assessment and Accreditation Council) II assessment, the IQAC has geared up and has extended its support for all the Academic and Administrative affairs of our College.

As you are aware that, NAAC, Bangalore has made certain changes in the format of SSR/ RAR and changed weightages of all seven criteria and focuses more on Quality Policy and creation of Quality Benchmarks. At the same time, the role of IQAC in this entire episode has been transformed from Cell to System and more appropriately now referred as Internal Quality Assurance System(IQAS). The composition of IQAS has been slightly modified by NAAC, with external representations as an External Expert and students as well. Thus, expectations from IQAS have been increased and have a key role in the Governance and Management of the College/ Institution. The IQAS will be playing a pivotal role in establishing the frame work for all syllabi and pattern for Continuous Evaluation System.

Objective

The primary aim of IQAC is

  • 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 towards quality enhancement through internalization of quality culture and institutionalization of best practices.

Strategies

IQAC shall evolve mechanisms and procedures for

  • 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.

Functions

Some of the functions expected 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 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

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 organised methodology of documentation and internal communication.

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