- Role of IQAC
The UGC (University Grants Commission) proposes that every institution should have NAAC accreditation. In pursuance of its Action Plan for performance evaluation, assessment and accreditation and quality up-gradation of institutions of higher education, the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), Bangalore proposes that every accredited institution should establish an Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) as a quality sustenance measure. Since quality enhancement is a continuous process, the IQAC will become a part of the institution’s system and work towards realisation of the goals of quality enhancement and sustenance. The prime task of the IQAC is to develop a system for conscious, consistent and catalytic improvement in the overall performance of institutions. For this, during the post-accreditation period, institutions need to channelize its efforts and measures towards promoting the holistic academic excellence including the peer committee recommendations.
- Vision
To ensure quality culture as the prime concern for the Higher Education Institutions through institutionalizing and internalizing all the initiatives taken with internal and external support.
- Objective
- • 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.
- Functions
- a) Development and application of quality benchmarks
- b) 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 maturation to adopt the required knowledge and technology for participatory teaching and learning process;
- d) Collection and analysis of feedback from all stakeholders on quality-related institutional processes;
- e) Dissemination of information on various quality parameters to all stakeholders;
- f) Organization of inter and intra institutional workshops, seminars on quality related themes and promotion of quality circles;
- g) Documentation of the 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 best practices;
- i) Development and maintenance of institutional database through MIS for the purpose of maintaining /enhancing the institutional quality;
- j) Periodical conduct of Academic and Administrative Audit and its follow-up
- q) Preparation and submission of the Annual Quality Assurance Report (AQAR) as per guidelines and parameters of NAAC.
- Constitution of the IQAC
- IQAC may be constituted in every institution under the Chairmanship of the Head of the institution and a few teachers and a few distinguished educationists and representatives of local management and stakeholders.
The composition of the IQAC may be as follows:
- 1. Chairperson: Head of the Institution
- 2. Teachers to represent all level (Three to eight)
- 3. One member from the Management
- 4. Few Senior administrative officers
- 5. One nominee each from local society, Students and Alumni
- 6. One nominee each from Employers /Industrialists/Stakeholders
- 7. One of the senior teachers as the coordinator/Director of the IQAC
- The composition of the IQAC will depend on the size and complexity of the institution, accordingly the representation of teachers may vary. It helps the institutions in planning and monitoring.
- • The membership of such nominated members shall be for a period of two years.
- • The IQAC should meet at least once in every quarter.
- • The quorum for the meeting shall be two-third of the total number of members.
- • The agenda, minutes and Action Taken Reports are to be documented with official signatures and maintained electronically in a retrievable format.
- • It is necessary for the members of the IQAC to shoulder the responsibilities of generating and promoting awareness in the institution and to devote time for working out the procedural details.
- • It is advisable to change the co-ordinator after two to three years to bring new thoughts and activities in the institution.