Shahid Matangini Hazra Government General Degree College For Women

Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC)

Vision, Objectives, Strategies and Functions

Vision:

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

Objective:

The primary aim of IQAC is

1. To develop a system for conscious, consistent and catalytic action to improve the academic and administrative performance of the institution.
2. To promote measures for institutional functioning towards quality enhancement through internalization of quality culture and institutionalization of best practices.
3. Guidelines of IQAC and submission of AQAR for Affiliated/Constituent Colleges

Strategies

1. IQAC shall evolve mechanisms and procedures for:
2. Ensuring timely, efficient and progressive performance of academic, administrative and financial tasks;
3. Relevant and quality academic/ research programmes;
4. Equitable access to and affordability of academic programmes for various sections of society;
5. Optimization and integration of modern methods of teaching and learning;
6. The credibility of assessment and evaluation process;
7. Ensuring the adequacy, maintenance and proper allocation of support structure and services;
8. Sharing of research findings and networking with other institutions.

Functions

Some of the functions expected of the IQAC are:

1. Development and application of quality benchmarks.
2. Parameters for various academic and administrative activities of the institution;
3. 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;
4. Collection and analysis of feedback from all stakeholders on quality-related institutional processes;
5. Dissemination of information on various quality parameters to all stakeholders;
6. Organization of inter and intra institutional workshops, seminars on quality related themes and promotion of quality circles;
7. Documentation of the various programmes/activities leading to quality improvement;
8. Acting as a nodal agency of the Institution for coordinating quality-related activities, including adoption and dissemination of best practices;
9. Development and maintenance of institutional database through MIS for the purpose of maintaining /enhancing the institutional quality;
10. Periodical conduct of Academic and Administrative Audit and its follow-up;
11. Preparation and submission of Institutional Information for Quality Assessment (IIQA)/ Self-study Report (SSR) and subsequently Annual Quality Assurance Report (AQAR) as per the guidelines and parameters of NAAC.

Thecomposition

IQAC will facilitate / contribute to:

1. Ensure clarity and focus on 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.

Build an organised methodology of documentation and internal communication.