FINAL PRESENTATION IQAC Meaning Significance

Useful to know Why IQAC - How useful for capacity building of teachers

1. IQAC /NAAC University of Mumbai Dr.Amit Hemant Mishal Associate Professor CCYM’S Hashu Advani College of Special Education https://www.hashuadvanismarak.org/hacse /

2. IQAC- With reference To Capacity Building of Institution's Dr Mishal Amit H Associate Professor (Education) IQAC  will work with the HEIs throughout their academic journey.

3. IQAC PUSH for QUALITY FORCE For Quality Brainstorm for Quality Hand in hand for Quality Opportunity for quality Quality becomes part and parcel, …………….. Quality is a journey  not  a destination

4. The IQAC is meant for planning, guiding and monitoring Quality Assurance (QA) and Quality Enhancement (QE) activities of the colleges. National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC)  -improve the quality of education in colleges or institutions. In pursuance of the National Action Plan of the NAAC, Bangalore, for performance evaluation, assessment and accreditation and quality up-gradation of institutions of higher education. Later proposed   Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) , a key quality sustenance measure.

5. UGC issued guidelines - 2012 – establishment/ monitoring IQACs to Establish -internal mechanism for sustenance, assurance,enhancement of quality culture of education imparted by HEIs. Every accredited institution establish an (IQAC) as a post-accreditation quality sustenance measure. To support the continuous process of providing quality education, adopting and assessing creative teaching-learning methods, and more.

6. Composition of IQAC Chairmanship of the Head of the institution with heads of important academic and administrative units and a few teachers and a few distinguished educationists and representatives of local management and stakeholders The composition of the IQAC may be as follows: Chairperson: Head of the Institution A few senior administrative officers Three to eight teachers One member from the Management One/two nominees from local society, Students and Alumni One/two nominees from Employers /Industrialists/stakeholders One of the senior teachers as the coordinator/Director of the IQAC

7. IQAC-WORK/ROLE Continuous process Part of institution's system /facilitative , participative voluntary system/unit/organ Work towards realizing goals of quality enhancement and sustenance. Develop system for conscious, consistent, catalytic improvement in performance Channelize efforts / measures of an institution towards academic excellence. Institutional functioning towards quality enhancement through Internalization of quality culture and institutionalization of best practices. Success –on- sense of belongingness and participation in all the constituents of the institution.

8. C hannelizes all efforts / measures towards promoting its holistic academic excellence. I mprovement in the overall performance of the institution S trives to provide a good environment for learning . E mphasis on revising the curriculum- need-based courses and global trends. F ocuses on introducing inter-disciplinary, job-oriented and skill-based courses , Choice Based Credit System with academic flexibility , introducing socially relevant extension programmes and implementing Feedback Mechanism. Working out planned interventionist strategies to remove deficiencies Put in place processes for improving standards across all academic programmes in college.  another hierarchical structure a record-keeping exercise

9. Q uality-related institutional processes Quality Culture in institution Documentation of programmes /activities Research, Publications Nodal Agency-coordinating quality-related activities Adoption/Disseminate - best practices Arrangement for feedback stakeholders

10. MoU Faculty Exchange /Collaboration Organization of inter /intra institutional workshops, seminars -quality related themes Promotion of quality circles Research Project /Funding Projects FDPS E-governance, SOPS etc

11. Do not serve as a data centre An Admisinstrative body Means to bring together - administrators, teachers, students, supporting staff and all other stakeholders Academic ,Co-Academic Annual Report Submission Every year by End of Calendar Year Meetings ,Minutes With Agenda IQAC initiatives IQAC organizes …………..

12. NAAC SEVEN CRITERIA FOR ACCREDITIATION Criterion 1- Curriculum Planning Criterion 2- Transaction of Curriculum, Innovation Criterion 3- Research Method Criterion 4- Infrastructure +Lib Criterion 5 - Co-curricular Activities + Student Progression Criterion 6- Administration & Governance Criterion 7- Community, Outreach

13. ROLE OF COORDINATOR Leadership Patience Intuition Risk Taking Coordination Life Skills Team Building etc To coordinate the dissemination of information on various quality parameters of higher education. To coordinate the documentation of the various programmes / activities leading to quality improvement . To coordinate the quality-related activities of the institution .

14. CAPACITY BUILDING 1. Organization Skill 2. Planning 3. Documentation 4. Preservation for future reference 5. Change in attitude/lack of information/prejudice - against Quality of teaching, learning, evaluation mentoring, community service, inclusion, research value addition ,student progression, placement, pursuing further studies audit, funding, research in higher education in this territory

15. What………………new accreditation system of NAAC! What,Why,When,How ……………. B inary accreditation system - “accredited” or “not accredited” Encourage all institutions to get on board NAAC accreditation Rated on levels 1-5 on Maturity-Based Graded Accreditation (MBGA) based Level 1 to Level 4 will be classified as ‘Institutions of National Excellence’ I nstitutions Level 5 will be classified as ‘Institutions of Global Excellence for Multi-Disciplinary Research and Education’.  I n line with the global best practices set by leading countries in the field of education .

16. The implementation of recommendations: 2 stages In stage one- binary accreditation - next four months MBGA will be implemented by December 2024.  No new applications will be accepted as per the present methodology after four months   Will replace the present system of ranking C to A++ Institutions that have already applied and are applying in the next four months shall have the option to either go by the present process or by the new methodology of binary accreditation .

17. *Current system of ranking is based on the Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) gained by an institution. Rural and remote location institutions -mentoring and handholding One Nation One Data Platform - integrity and transparency in handling institutional data. New platform shall capture superset of data from HEIs for varied purposes (of approval, accreditation, ranking) with an in-built design for collateral cross-checking to check authenticity of data. Trust and Data Driven system with minimal visits to an institution for verification; H eavy penalties on giving wrong submissions. Additional Provision for customized ranking based on stakeholders such as industry, funding agencies, students etc .  Hoping transformative reforms for strengthening assessment and accreditation of the HEIs cum True!

18. NEVER STOP LEARNING, BECAUSE LIFE NEVER STOPS TEACHING " Excellence is not an endpoint but an ongoing journey . Any Questions Which I can solve Ill try …..

19. References : 1. https :// bestcolleges.indiatoday.in/news-detail/naac-introduces-new-accreditation-system (retrieved on 9.2.24 at 12.09pm) 2.http :// naac.gov.in/images/docs/Publication/books/NAAC_Assessment_Update.pdf ( retrieved on 9.2.24 at 12.31pm) 3. https:// www.thehindu.com/news/national/naac-to-introduce-new-binary-accreditation-system-in-four-months/article67784096.ece (retrieved on 9.2.24 at 12.20pm) 4. Source of Image:https :// www.peoplematters.in/article/strategic-hr/capacity-building-an-organizational-goal-that-hr-facilitates-14108 5. Source of Image:https :// keydifferences.com/ wp -content/uploads/2014/11/leader-vs-manager1.jpg