Quality Assurance Framework
Quality assurance involves all activities in the institute that are necessary for fulfilling the purposes of sustaining high quality education and educational services, it aims at:
- Ensuring continuous enhancement of the quality education
- Maintaining consistency and effectiveness in quality assurance activities
- Promoting the culture of quality assurance system.
Objectives of IQAC
The institute Quality Assurance System is established to:
- Systematically enhance academic and administrative performance
- Ensure stakeholder satisfaction through continuous improvement
- Promote a culture of excellence and innovation in teaching, learning, and institutional processes.
Quality Assurance Framework
The Quality Assurance Framework of institute contains the following elements:
- Quality Assurance Policy and the mechanism for continuous review of the Quality Assurance Systems
- Guidelines for various academic processes
- Collection of feedback information for monitoring the operation of various academic processes
- Follow-up actions, continuous improvement of the academic quality
Quality Assurance cell
The Quality Assurance Cell is established to provide administration support to the
Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) of the College.
The IQAC is established to:
- Promote quality assurance and foster a culture of quality assurance
- Advise on policies and procedures for approval, monitoring and review of programmes
- Audit the effectiveness and operation of the quality assurance system so as to maintain quality and to overview the quality and standards of all programmes
Guiding Principles
The Quality Assurance Framework of an IQAC cell guiding the following principles:
- Continuous Improvement: Implementing ongoing enhancements in teaching, learning, and administrative processes.
- Stakeholder Involvement: Engaging students, faculty, industry partners, and alumni in quality assurance activities.
- Evidence-Based Decisions: Using data and analytics to inform policy-making and improvements.
- Transparency and Accountability: Maintaining open communication and clear documentation of quality assurance processes and outcomes.
- Innovation and Excellence: Promoting innovative practices and striving for academic and operational excellence in all college activities.
Broad Functions of IQAC
- Review of Institutional and Departmental Vision and Mission
- Contribute to preparation of SAR especially information related to institutional and finance
- Develop faculty self-appraisal questionnaire and student feedback questionnaire
- Access faculty performance annually
- Develop a description of the process with questionnaires and tools required for continuous assessment
- Decide frequency of assessment of POs – internal and external
- Assessment and revision of PEOs
- Prepare and finalize the PEOs and POs / PSOs, align them with the Mission and write the process of development of PEOs and POs
- Take corrective actions and additional inputs for meeting POs/PSOs
- Obtain COs from respective faculty for concerned PO along with their alignment with PO and target of expected achievements
- Conduct assessment of placement record for ensuring PEOs attainments or revision if required
- Conduct assessment of curriculum and resources available to meet the developed PEOs and POs, decide additional courses / contents, professional / open electives to bridge the gaps and inform the shortfalls in resources to the Institutional Core Committee which will evaluate the needs and present the additional requirement to the management
- Supervises the COs and their alignment to POs, question banks, assignments, tests, quiz, activities.
- Develop common Performance Indicators for respective Courses aligned to the PO and ensures the faculty develop activities, question banks, tests, quiz, assignments related to the common performance indicators as well as for their course specific indicators
- Hold discussions with concerned faculty on shortfalls for the achievement of pre-set targets.
- Prepare and conduct indirect assessment and prepare report
- Prepare annual report of success / failures on various parameters
- Monitor progress periodically
- Collect recommendations for improvements
- Maintain and update website
