Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC)
The Vision of IQAC in the institution
- To be the institution of excellence in teacher education
- Promote holistic development
- Promote a quality culture
The Mission of IQAC in the institution
- Develop a system for conscious, consistent, and catalytic improvement of the institution
- Belongingness and participation of IQAC in all the institutional activities
Objectives of IQAC in the institution
- To develop a mechanism to promote conscious, consistent, and catalytic action plans to improve the academic and administrative performance of the institution.
- To promote the institutional quality enhancement and sustenance through the internalization of quality culture and institutionalization of the best practices.
Strategies of IQAC in the institution
- Ensuring timely, efficient, and progressive performance of academic, administrative, and financial units
- Adoption of relevant and quality academic and research programmes
- Ensuring equitable access to and affordability of academic programmes for various sections of society.
- Optimization and integration of modern methods of teaching and learning.
- Ensuring credible assessment and evaluation processes.
- Ensuring the proper allocation, adequacy, and maintenance of support structure and services.
Functions of IQAC in the institution
- Development and application of quality benchmarks
- Planning and monitoring quality-related activities
- Setting parameters for various academic and administrative activities of the institution
- 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
- Collection and analysis of feedback from all the stakeholders on quality-related institutional processes
- Organization and participation in intra- and inter-institutional workshops and seminars on quality-related themes and promotion of quality circles;
- Documentation of various programmes/activities leading to quality improvement
- Acting as a nodal agency of the institution for coordinating quality-related activities, including the adoption and dissemination of the best practices
- Development and maintenance of institutional database for the purpose of maintaining and enhancing the institutional quality
- Periodical conduct of Academic and Administrative Audits along with their follow-up activities
- Preparation and submission of the Annual Quality Assurance Report (AQAR) as per the guidelines and parameters of NAAC.
Composition of IQAC
- Principal of the Institution - Chairperson
- Director of the BSS Institutions - Management Member
- President of the Society - Management Member
- Teaching Staff - Co-ordinator(s)
- Teaching Staff - Members
- Office Superintendent - Member
- Society Nominee - Members
- Student Nominee - Members
- Alumni Nominee - Member
The quorum of the IQAC Meeting
- The quorum for the meeting shall be two-thirds of the total number of members
Validity of IQAC membership
- The membership of the nominated members shall be for a period of two years and necessary modifications in the composition as per the institution’s
Frequency of IQAC meetings and reports
- The IQAC should meet at least once in every quarter (2 times in a semester)
Action Plan of IQAC
- Plan of action at the beginning of the Academic year toward Quality Enhancement
- Preparation of Academic Calendar
- Assisting various cells/committees/clubs in their quality performance
- Analysing various Minutes of Meetings
- Feedback analysis and necessary remedial recommendations and actions
- Ensuring effective internal assessment and proper documentation
- Preparation of outcome achieved by the end of the Academic year
- Assisting ICT-related support towards effective teaching-learning process
- AISHE submission
- Yearly budget for augmentation/extension of the infrastructure of the institution
- Plan of Action related to the professional development of the faculty members
- Plan of Action related to teaching skill enhancement
- Academic audit and teaching performance evaluation
- Enriching the institution’s best practices, strategic plans, distinctiveness and etc.,