Functions & Strategies
In pursuance of its Action Plan for performance evaluation, assessment & accreditation & quality up-gradation, the college established IQAC in 2007, as an agency for quality improvement and sustenance. The IQAC functions as an overall advisory body of the college, constantly operating for the betterment of the infrastructure, teaching learning process, research, governance, extension activities etc. in order to augment the quality of education imparted by the college.
Since quality enhancement is a continuous process, the IQAC has become a part of the college’s system & works towards realisation of the goals of quality enhancement & sustenance. The prime task of the IQAC is to develop a system for conscious, consistent & catalytic improvement in the overall performance of the college. For this, during the post-accreditation period, it has channelized all efforts & measures of the institution towards promoting its holistic academic excellence.
IQAC Co-ordinator: Dr. Rakhi Dey Sharma
STRATEGIES
IQAC endeavours to 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 functioning of the support structure and services
- Research sharing and networking with other institutions in India and abroad
FUNCTIONS
Some of the functions performed by 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)& SSR 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