Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC)
Directorate of Education
Goals:
- To develop a Quality System for conscious, consistent, and catalytic programmed action to improve the academic and administrative performance of the University.
- To promote measures of institutional functioning towards quality enhancement through the internalization of quality culture and the institutionalization of best practices.
Functions of the IQAC:
- Development and application of quality benchmarks/parameters for the various academic and administrative activities of the University.
- Facilitating the creation of a learner-centric environment conducive to quality education and faculty maturation to adopt the required knowledge and technology for a participatory teaching and learning process.
- Arrangement for feedback responses from students, parents, and other stakeholders on quality-related institutional processes.
- Dissemination of information on the various quality parameters of higher education.
- Organization of inter- and intra-University workshops and seminars on quality-related themes and promotion of quality circles.
- Documentation of various programs/activities of the University, leading to quality improvement. Acting as a nodal agency of the University for Coordinating quality-related Activities, including the adoption and dissemination of good practices.
- Development and maintenance of an institutional database through MIS for the purpose of maintaining/enhancing institutional quality.
- Development of a quality culture in the University. Preparation of the Annual Quality Assurance Report (AQAR) of the University based on the quality parameters/assessment criteria developed by the relevant quality assurance bodies (like NAAC, NBA, AB) in the prescribed format.
- Bi-annual development of Quality Radars (QRs) and ranking of integral units of HEIs based on the AQAR. Interaction with SQACs in the pre- and post-accreditation quality assessment, sustenance, and enhancement endeavours.
