IQAC

St. Francis De Sales College, Aalo has established the Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) in the year 2010 for regular quality enhancement and monitoring its sustenance. The IQAC takes active role in organizing a number of quality initiatives in the college and review its methods of operation through regular meetings and analysis of feedback collected from its stakeholders. The Objective, Strategy, and Functions listed below are taken verbatim from the NAAC Document on the Guidelines for the Creation of the Internal Quality Assurance Cell (2017- revised).

Objective

The primary aim of IQAC is

• 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

IQAC shall evolve mechanisms and procedures for

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

Functions

Some of the functions expected of the IQAC are:

1. Development and application of quality benchmarks/parameters for various academic and administrative activities of the institution;
2. 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
3. Arrangement for feedback response from students, parents and other stakeholders on quality-related institutional processes;
4. Dissemination of information on various quality parameters of higher education;
5. Organization of inter and intra institutional workshops, seminars on quality related themes and promotion of quality circles;
6. Documentation of the various programmes/activities leading to quality improvement;
7. Acting as a nodal agency of the Institution for coordinating quality-related activities, including adoption and dissemination of best practices;
8. Development and maintenance of institutional database through MIS for the purpose of maintaining /enhancing the institutional quality;
9. Development of Quality Culture in the institution;
10. Preparation of the Annual Quality Assurance Report (AQAR) as per guidelines and parameters of NAAC, to be submitted to NAAC.