INTERNAL QUALITY ASSURANCE CELL (IQAC)

About IQAC:

IQAC is formed and approved by the Governing body to take care of quality assurance strategies for the Institute’s long-term quality standards. The establishment of the Internal
Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) is a crucial step in ensuring effective planning, guidance, and monitoring of strategic benchmarks for various academic and administrative tasks. It serves
as the nodal agency in the institution for coordinating quality-improving initiatives, such as the adoption and promotion of best practices.

Goal:

IQAC aims to create a structure for deliberate, persistent, and catalytic action to enhance the administrative and academic performance of the institution by internalizing a quality culture and institutionalizing the best practices.

Strategies:

The IQAC will develop, monitor, and control the below procedures to achieve its goals:
a) timely, efficient, and progressive performance of academic, administrative, and financial
tasks;
b) Societal relevance of academic and research programs;
c) equitable access to and affordability of academic programs for different sections of society;
d) optimization and integration of modern teaching and learning methods;
e) validation of evaluation procedures; and
f) adequacy, maintenance, and upgradation of infrastructural facilities.

Functions of IQAC:

• 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, advancement of knowledge, and technology for participatory teaching and learning process.
• Collection and analysis of feedback from all stakeholders on quality related institutional processes.
• Adoption of good documentation practices of the many initiatives and actions carried out by the Institute, leading to quality improvement.
• Periodical conduct of Academic and Administrative Audit and its followup.
• To propose different value-added programs to the T&P cell and oversee their implementation
• To assist the Departments in keeping an eye on the following actions:

a) Guidelines
b) Assignments, Workshops
c) Addition of content: Lab & Theory
d) Remedial education

ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIVITIES:

Issues about quality assurance should be discussed during the IQAC’s regular meetings.

A communication plan should be created and implemented by the IQAC to notify stakeholders about quality assurance initiatives.

The pharmacy college should undergo routine quality audits by the IQAC.

IQAC prepares a biannual quality assurance report for review by the Governing
Body.

Apart from the aforementioned, the IQAC ought to take into account of the
following:
a) The institutional distinctiveness.
b) The quality policy of the college.
c) The strategic plan of the college.

To guarantee that quality assurance is ingrained in every facet of the college’s
activities, the IQAC should collaborate closely with the administration of the
institution.