Vaageswari College of Engineering

Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC)

IQAC at Vaageswari College of Engineering is an important organizational body that is responsible for all quality matters. It is the prime responsibility of IQAC to initiate, plan and supervise various activities that are necessary to increase the quality of the education imparted in an institution or college. The role of IQAC is maintaining the quality standards in teaching, learning and evaluation becomes crucial, and the present research is therefore undertaken on a smaller scale to determine the exact status and functioning of IQAC and its outcome. The establishment of Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) by accredited institutions (after the first cycle) is a major step in pushing long-term quality standards making VGSE best engineering colleges in Telangana.

STRATEGIES

IQAC shall evolve mechanisms and procedures for:

Ensuring timely, efficient and progressive performance of academic activities.
To assure the 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

BENEFITS

IQAC will facilitate/contribute:

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 organised methodology of documentation and internal communication

Functions:

Some of the functions expected of the IQAC are:

Organization of inter and intra institutional workshops, seminars on quality related themes and promotion of quality circles;
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;
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;
Development and application of quality benchmarks
Periodical conduct of Academic and Administrative Audit and its follow-up
Dissemination of information on various quality parameters to all stakeholders;
Parameters for various academic and administrative activities of the institution;
Documentation of the various programmes/activities leading to quality improvement;
Collection and analysis of feedback from all stakeholders on quality-related institutional processes;

Goals:

Goals

To develop a quality system for conscious, consistent and catalytic programmed action to improve the academic and administrative performance of the College
To promote measures for institutional functioning towards quality enhancement through internationalization of quality culture and institutionalization of best practices

IQAC

IQAC

IQAC Committee

IQAC Chart

Activities

Minutes of Meeting

Annual Reports