IQAC
Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC)
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.
The guidelines provided in the following pages will guide and facilitate the institution in the
creation and operation of the Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC). The work of the IQAC is
the first step towards internalization and institutionalization of quality enhancement initiatives.
Its success depends upon the sense of belongingness and participation in all the constituents of the institution. It will not be yet another hierarchical structure or a record-keeping exercise in the institution. It will be a facilitative and participative voluntary system/unit/organ of the
institution. It has the potential to become a vehicle for ushering in quality enhancement by
working out planned interventionist strategies by IQAC to remove deficiencies and enhance
quality like the “Quality Circles” in industries.
Vision
To promote quality culture as the prime concern of Higher Education Institutions through institutionalizing and internalizing all the quality-enhancing and sustaining initiatives taken with internal and external support.
Objectives
Strategies
Adoption of relevant and quality academic and research programmes.
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
- 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.
- Collection and analysis of feedback from all stakeholders on quality-related institutional processes.
- Dissemination of information on various quality parameters to all stakeholders.
- 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.
- Periodical conduct of Academic and Administrative Audit and its follow-up.
