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 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:
- 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; and
- g) Sharing of research findings and networking with other institutions in India and abroad.
IQAC shall evolve a mechanism and procedures for
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.
- 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.
Some of the functions expected of the IQAC are:
Benefits: IQAC will facilitate / contribute to