IQAC Guidelines
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 functioning of the support structure
and services
Research sharing and networking with other institutions in India and abroad
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 organized methodology of documentation and internal communication
COMPOSITION
IQAC may be constituted in every institution under the Chairmanship of the Head of the
institution with heads of important academic and administrative units 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:
- Chairperson: Head of the Institution
- A few senior administrative officers
- Three to eight teachers
- One member from the Management
- One/two nominees from local society, Students and Alumni
- One/two nominees from Employers /Industrialists/stakeholders
- One of the senior teachers as the coordinator/Director of the IQAC
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
