Strategies/Benefits/Functions

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Strategies

Strategies

IQAC shall evolve mechanisms and procedures for

  1. Ensuring timely, efficient and progressive performance of academic, administrative and financial tasks;
  2. The relevance and quality of academic and research programmes;
  3. Equitable access to and affordability of academic programmes for various sections of society;
  4. Optimization and integration of modern methods of teaching and learning;
  5. Ensuring the adequacy, maintenance and proper allocation of support structure and services;
  6. Sharing of research findings and networking with other institutions in India and abroad.

Benefits

Benefits

IQAC will facilitate / contribute

  1. Ensure heightened level of clarity and focus in institutional functioning towards quality enhancement;
  2. Ensure internalization of the quality culture;
  3. Ensure enhancement and coordination among various activities of the institution and institutionalize all good practices;
  4. Provide a sound basis for decision-making to improve institutional functioning;
  5. Act as a dynamic system for quality changes in HEIs;

Functions

Functions

  1. Development and application of quality benchmarks/parameters for various academic and administrative activities of the institution;
  2. 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;
  3. Arrangement for feedback response from students, parents and other stakeholders on quality-related institutional processes;
  4. Dissemination of information on various quality parameters of higher education;
  5. Organization of inter and intra institutional workshops, seminars on quality related themes and promotion of quality circles;
  6. Documentation of the various programmes/activities leading to quality improvement;
  7. Acting as a nodal agency of the Institution for coordinating quality-related activities, including adoption and dissemination of best practices;
  8. Development and maintenance of institutional database through MIS for the purpose of maintaining /enhancing the institutional quality;
  9. Development of Quality Culture in the institution;
  10. Preparation of the Annual Quality Assurance Report (AQAR) as per guidelines and parameters of NAAC, to be submitted to NAAC.

Future Plans

Future Plans

We propose to (a) devise a strategy to help inculcate the habit of good record-keeping in all sections and Departments of the University; (b) develop strategies to help make teacher self-appraisal and student-evaluation of teachers a habit among our fellow teachers; (c) to introduce a ‘Class Guide and Mentor System’ with each teacher being assigned a given number of students for educational-cum-personal guidance; (d) introduce and implement a system that will encourage cooperative/collaborative groups of strong and weak learners to slow learners get help in their studies from better performers; (e) create and use a post-entrance diagnostic tests to assess the aptitude of students and assessments and frequent interactions; (f) give fresh impetus to the University and Industry Interaction (U&I Interaction) Cell established in 2005 in the university to generate revenue by offering consultancy services to the industry; (g) seek collaborations not just for the sake of collaborations but for active engagement and mutual benefit in the spirit of what our founder Vice Chancellor, Shri Bhaikaka called ‘enlightened self-interest’; and (h) focus on the provision of infrastructure facilities in some Departments and modernisation of infrastructure facilities in some other.