Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) was established at CIMS on 2nd March 2018, it functions under the Chairmanship of the Director and senior faculty members, representative from the local community and a student representative. Its aim is to develop and maintain a system to promote academic and administrative excellence. The IQAC is the central quality- monitoring body of the institution, facilitating Academic Audit, preparing Annual Report, affiliation and all other quality audit process activities regularly. The Cell documents and reports Curricular activities of the college for various higher education requirements.
The IQAC has since been an integral part of the institution which works towards realizing the goals of quality enhancement by developing a system for conscious, consistent and catalytic improvement in different aspects of functioning of the college. The task of the IQAC (Internal Quality Assurance Cell) is to create, maintain and enhance quality determinedly and unswervingly in all spheres of the institution for impetus improvement in holistic performance at CIMS.
OBJECTIVES:
- 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.
STRATEGIES:
- To ensure timely, efficient and progressive performance of academic and administrative tasks
- To promote relevance and quality of academic and research programmes;
- To provide equitable access and affordability of academic programmes for various sections of society;
- To optimize and integrate modern methods of teaching and learning;
- To raise the standards and credibility of the evaluation procedures;
- To ensure the adequacy, maintenance and proper allocation of support structure and services.
FUNCTIONS:
- 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 for the purpose of maintaining /enhancing the institutional quality.
- Development of Quality Culture in the institution.
Composition of IQAC
- One member from the Management
- Chairperson: Head of the Institution
- One of the senior teachers as the coordinator of the IQAC
- Senior faculty members
- Senior administrative officer
- One nominee each from local society, Students and Alumni
- One nominee each from Employers /Industrialists/Stakeholders
