IQAC Profile

INTERNAL QUALITY ASSURANCE CELL (IQAC), SANJO COLLEGE (SCMAS)


Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) in Sanjo College (SCMAS) pushes long-term quality standards in all its academic and non-academic affairs to cope with global competence.

IQAC endeavors to initiate, plan and supervise various activities that are necessary to increase the quality of the education imparted in SCMAS. The quality standards in teaching, learning and evaluation become crucial for quality assurance and thus IQAC affirms assimilation, optimization and integration of modern techniques and methods of teaching and learning.

IQAC promotes quality through various programmes and activities such as seminars, workshops, symposia, conferences, panel discussions, role playing exercises, (model) demonstrations, case studies, academic meetings, proper and timely evaluative measures and feedback portals, and through any such kind of event or programme ventures for both the staff and the students.

The primary aim of IQAC as per the guidelines from NAAC is “to develop a system for conscious, consistent and catalytic improvement in the overall performance of institutions. For this, during the post-accreditation period, it will channelize all efforts and measures of the institution towards promoting its holistic academic excellence.”

Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) is established in the college for as a quality sustenance measure. IQAC works towards developing a system for conscious, consistent and catalytic action to improve the academic and administrative performance of the college.

Mission

To ensure a learner-centric environment equipped with the latest techniques of teaching and learning process.


Vision

To ensure a learner-centric environment equipped with the latest techniques of teaching and learning process.


Objectives & Strategies


Major Objectives of IQAC:

To develop a system for conscious, consistent and catalytic action to improve the academic and administrative performance of the institution.

To promote measures for institutional functioning towards quality enhancement through internalization of quality culture and institutionalization of best practices.

  • To make a college with educational excellence and academic brilliance
  • To ensure a pro-student (pupil-centric) ambiance for holistic learning culture
  • To achieve an interdisciplinary, integrated and collaborative academia with industrial relation
  • To enhance the quality and competence of staff and students
  • To promote a collaborative teaching – learning – administrative functions for overall development
  • To guarantee the incorporation of current trends and techniques in teaching and learning

Strategies

  • Ensuring timely, efficient and progressive performance of academic, administrative and financial tasks
  • The relevance and quality of academic and research programmes
  • Equitable access to and affordability of academic programmes for various sections of society
  • Optimization and integration of modern methods of teaching and learning
  • The credibility of evaluation procedures
  • Ensuring the adequacy, maintenance and functioning of the support structure and services
  • Research sharing and networking with other institutions in India and abroad

Functions & Benefits



Functions

Some of the functions expected of the IQAC are:

  • 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, parents 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 and maintenance of institutional database through MIS for the purpose of maintaining/enhancing the institutional quality
  • 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 heightened 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 organized methodology of documentation and internal communication