INTERNAL QUALITY ASSURANCE CELL (IQAC)

“WELCOME TO THE INTERNAL QUALITY ASSURANCE CELL”

The ongoing changes in higher education, in the wake of national educational reforms, legislative enactments, the UGC/MHRD directives and the challenges put forth by globalization, necessitate that the universities actively engage themselves in the development and implementation of quality benchmarks in all their key performance areas. Committed to sustain its top ranking position, the Dr. C. V. Raman University has established the Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) to institutionalize the process of quality enhancement and sustenance in all the key areas of its delivery.

The IQAC is the nodal agency entrusted with the responsibility of ensuring total quality management by ushering in innovations leading to achieving excellence and adoption of intervention strategies for monitoring their successful implementation. Ever in quest for excellence, the IQAC functions to assure institutional accountability with probity to all the stakeholders, funding agencies in particular and society as a whole.

OBJECTIVES :-

• To become a hub for disseminating ideas and educational innovations for breeding a culture for excellence in all units of the university
• To set quality benchmarks for all units and evolve mechanisms for monitoring and ensuring performance in accordance with them.
• To evolve and implement strategies for self-evaluation to sensitize all functionaries to be accountable for student and stakeholder satisfaction.
• To take steps for the periodic internal academic audit of the teaching-learning and research activities of all departments/faculties and institutes.
• To ensure in-service continuing education and training of all functionaries for enriching the intellectual capital and professional competence of the university.
• To collaborate with other academic institutions and agencies globally for improvement of quality and brand image of the university.

TEAM :-

QUALITY ASSURANCE : GUIDING FEATURES

• The basic principles : Basic principles of the Quality Policy of the university include holistic approach, benchmarking, methodologies for the accountability, self assessment, evaluation by students, continuous efforts for improving the quality of academic, administrative and supporting staff, optimum utilization of resources and efforts for continuous improvement.
• Quality Assurance : Quality assurance is a by-product of ongoing efforts to define the objectives of an institution, develop a work plan to achieve them and specify the checks and balances to evaluate the extent to which each of the tasks is fulfilled.
  
  The features of quality assurance are as follows :
  1. Commitment to widespread involvement of staff, Students and other stakeholders in the QA process
  2. Critical self- evaluation and rigorous peer review of academic and administrative areas.
  3. Methodical collection of information about service satisfaction and student experience, including external comparisons.
  4. External Assessment of professional courses through accreditation and review including benchmarks.
  5. Multiple avenues for student and staff input to QA and improvement in the performance of Institutes, Faculties, Department, Schools, Services, academic bodies and student council.
  6. Systematic use of stakeholder experiences to improve courses and curricula, and to plan development and training programmes for staff.

A focus on efficient management, planning and resource processes to achieve excellence and to ensure continuous improvement

• University wide strategic goals linked to plans, priorities and review system.
• Effective academic bodies to develop implement and oversee academic policies.
• A regular cycle of reviews of all faculties and administrative service units.
• Coordinated academic and administrative review processes.
• A process for monitoring implementation of the recommendations of reviews through University administration.
• Performance-based incentive for teaching and research.
• Provision for funds to address areas of improvement.
• Annual updating of faculty teaching and learning plans.
• A performance management and development system for staff.
• A commitment to judging outcomes and processes against the highest external standards and benchmarks
• Formal links with many of the world’s leading universities, and national and international benchmarking of academic standards and outcomes.
• National and international benchmarking of quality assurance processes.

Structure for Quality Assurance

Dr. C. V. Raman University has been accredited with "B+" Grade by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) in the year 2017. The NAAC National Action Plan requires every accredited institution to establish an Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) as a post accreditation quality sustenance measure.

Accordingly, IQAC has been setup in the University with the Vice-Chancellor as its Chairman. The IQAC is the central point in implementation of the Quality Policy of the university and work for quality enhancement and sustenance by developing a system for conscious, consistent and catalytic improvement in the performance of the university. Accordingly, Department/Faculty/Institute Quality Assurance Committees have been set up to assist and support IQAC.

IQAC establishes procedures and modalities to collect data and information on various aspects of institutional functioning with a view to ensure continuous improvement in all operations of the university. Whereas the Faculty/Institute level Quality Assurance Committees ensure the implementation and feedback with regard to the policies laid down by the IQAC. These efforts aim to assure stakeholders connected with higher education-namely, student, parents, teachers, staff, would-be employers funding agencies and society in general of the accountability of the institution for its own quality and probity.

Mechanism of Quality Assurance

The notion of quality underpinning the framework adopted by the university is of fitness for purpose ie. The institution, its components and activities have quality if they conform to the purpose for which they were designed.

The Quality Policy is applied to all Institutes, Faculties, Colleges, Departments, Schools and academic, administrative and support staff at the university through :

1. Internal quality assurance mechanism-continuous
2. External quality assurance mechanisms-periodic

The university shall time to time evolve quality management framework for all institutes, Faculties, Colleges, Departments and Schools. Regular internal audits will be conducted to ensure that the Quality Policy is implemented.

Internal quality assurance

IQAC will develop a quality manual describing various benchmarks and the processes designed to achieve them. The manual would describe the QA system. The set of guidelines, codes of good practices and procedures to be implemented by the various units.

Based on the prescribed guidelines, each unit of the university would develop its own internal quality assurance mechanism. The mechanism shall be coherent with quality assurance framework set forth in this policy and approved by the IQAC, to evaluate the quality of teaching programmes and courses, academic staff, teaching and learning experience, student assessment, internal moderation, support services, resources and facilities, and research and programme review processes.

External quality assurance

In order to ensure that high quality standard is maintained in the university, periodic assessment of quality shall be arranged by such external agencies, as NAAC or any other agency suggested by the Government of India from time to time.