Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC)
Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC)
The Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) at Najath College of Science & Technology plays a pivotal role in institutional planning, decision-making, and the effective implementation of academic and infrastructural development initiatives. It serves as the central mechanism for ensuring quality enhancement and sustenance across all dimensions of the college’s functioning.
Objectives
- To develop a system of conscious, consistent, and catalytic action to improve the academic and administrative performance of the institution.
- To ensure all stakeholders are connected with higher education about the quality of education imparted by the institution.
Strategies
- Ensuring relevance and quality of academic and research programmes.
- Equitable access to and affordability of academic programmes for diverse sections of society.
- Optimisation and integration of modern methods of teaching and learning.
- Credibility and transparency of evaluation procedures.
- Adequacy, maintenance, and proper allocation of support structures and services.
- Research sharing and networking with other institutions in India.
Timely, efficient, and progressive performance of academic, administrative, and financial tasks.
Functions
- Dissemination of information on quality parameters of higher education.
- Organisation of workshops, seminars, and promotion of quality circles on quality-related themes.
- Documentation of programmes/activities contributing to quality improvement.
- Acting as a nodal agency of the institution for quality-related initiatives.
- Preparation of the Annual Quality Assurance Report (AQAR) to be submitted to NAAC based on prescribed quality parameters.
Development and application of quality benchmarks/parameters for academic and administrative activities.
Benefits
The IQAC facilitates and contributes to:
- A heightened level of clarity and focus in institutional functioning towards quality enhancement and internalisation of the quality culture.
- Integration of various activities of the institution and institutionalisation of good practices.
- Providing a sound basis for decision-making to improve institutional functioning.
- Acting as a change agent within the institution.
- Strengthening internal communication and coordination.