ABOUT IQAC

Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) is a committee formed in Acharya Institute of Technology to build and ensure a quality culture in all the functions of the Institute at the institutional level. The IQAC is meant to plan, guide and monitor Quality Assurance (QA) and Quality Enhancement (QE) activities of the Institute. The Institute established an Internal Quality Assurance Cell in 2016 as per the guidelines of NAAC.

IQAC-VISION

To ensure quality culture as the prime concern for the Institution through institutionalizing and internalizing all the initiatives taken with internal and external support.

OBJECTIVES OF THE IQAC

The main objective of IQAC is to ascertain whether the departments have put in place adequate and effective quality assurance mechanisms in terms of strategies, procedures, their applicability, that ensures quality inputs and consequently quality outputs; their agility in ensuring continuous improvements along with review of available resources, their optimal utilization, additional resource requirements for providing quality education.

• To develop a system for conscious, consistent and catalytic action to improve the academic and administrative performance of the institution.
• To achieve excellence in teaching-learning, research, innovation and overall development of the institute through quality enhancement.
• To ensure standardization as well as the systematization of procedure.
• To promote measures for institutional functioning towards quality enhancement through internalization of quality culture and institutionalization of best practices.
• To set quality performance indicators in domains of education, research and administration pertaining to departments/programs and other units of the Institution.
• To develop strategies to evaluate quality performance indicators
  • To evolve and implement self-evaluation proforma for faculty and staff.
  • To facilitate periodic academic and administrative audit.
• To ensure learning outcomes periodically and record the improvement through various activities.
• To develop benchmarks for quality performance indicators.

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
• Optimization and integration of modern methods of teaching and learning
• The credibility of evaluation procedures IQAC
• Ensuring the adequacy, maintenance and proper allocation of support structure and services.

FUNCTIONS OF IQAC

The functions expected of the IQAC are:

• Arrange for Academic and Administrative Audit annually
• 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 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 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.

BENEFITS

IQAC will facilitate/contribute to:

• Ensure high 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 organised methodology of documentation and internal communication.

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Following are the roles and responsibilities of various members of IQAC:

IQAC COORDINATOR

• To ensure active participation of all members in meetings/deliberations.
• To ensure adherence of IQAC functioning as per SOPs and updating of SOPs as and when required.
• To coordinate activities of IQAC.
• Assist the chairperson IQAC in development of Quality Key Indicators (QKIs) and Ranking parameters per semester.
• Preparation of various formats.
• Preparation of audit schedule.
• Summary report preparation of the various academic and administrative audits.
• Document preparation and to ensure readiness for the IQAC events, meetings & special projects.

IQAC MEMBERS

• Attend the meetings regularly.
• Will actively participate in discussions and give their valuable inputs and suggestions for improvement in quality of various parameters in the institute.
• Ensure adherence of academic calendar, standardized formats and policies in their respective departments.
• Contribute actively to academic audits.
• Will actively participate in all activities of IQAC and put efforts in fulfilling the objectives and functions of IQAC for quality improvement.

OPERATIONAL FEATURES OF IQAC

Quality assurance is a by-product of ongoing efforts to define the objectives of an institution, to have a work plan to achieve them and to specify the checks and balances to evaluate the degree to which each of the tasks is fulfilled. Hence devotion and commitment to improvement rather than mere institutional control is the basis for devising procedures and instruments for assuring quality. The IQAC has to ensure that whatever is done in the institution for “education” is done efficiently and effectively with high standards. In order to do this, the IQAC will have to first establish procedures and modalities to collect data and information on various aspects of institutional functioning.