IQAC Co-ordinator : Dr. C. Sethukarasi, M.Sc., M.Phil., Ph.D.
The Internal Quality Assurance Cell of Meenakshi College was formed on 1 January, 2005, and has been driving extensive quality sustenance and enhancement measures especially post-accreditation by NAAC in 2007.
Annual Quality Assurance Reports of the College
Minutes of Meetings of the IQAC and Action Taken Reports Activities of the IQAC
- Academic Audits of Departments
The Internal Quality Assurance Cell
conducts Academic audits of the departments annually through its two tools of
Academic Progress Monitoring System for students and the Appraisal System for
faculty. Reports of the academic progression of ever student coupled with data on
her social and economic background are generated automatically and reviewed
regularly by the IQAC. Similarly, reports are prepared for each faculty
member’s activities and achievements in the year including academic results in
the subjects she taught. Suggestions for quality improvement and the way
forward are filtered out after discussions convened by the IQAC.
An external academic audit is also
conducted periodically for every Department by subject experts invited from
other organizations.
- Acting on the Recommendations of Academic
Audits
Departments
arrange for academic audits periodically while the IQAC
conducts performance audits of all the departments based on student and faculty
performances. On the basis of the recommendations of the Academic Audit
Committee and the IQAC, various measures have been taken by the College to
improve teaching and learning. Examples are the provision of intranet and
internet facilities, signing of MoUs and introduction of interdisciplinary
skill-based subjects like Quality Control Circles, General Knowledge and
Analytical Reasoning for all courses.
- Review of the Teaching-Learning Process
Structure: The Internal Quality Assurance Cell is the body that reviews the
teaching-learning process. The IQAC team consists of the following members:
The Principal is the chairperson of the
IQAC. The other members comprise two management representatives, two senior
administrative officers, six members of the faculty, one representative from
the community and the Coordinator who is overall in-charge of the functioning
of the IQAC.
Methodology: The IQAC has applied quality parameters for the various academic
and administrative activities of the college. It has organized workshops and
seminars on quality-related themes as part of staff enrichment programmes. It
documents all the activities of the College and steers the College towards
quality enhancement, facilitating the internalization of a quality culture. It
prepares and submits the annual Quality Assurance Reports based on the identified
quality parameters. To improve the quality of teaching, periodic feedback is
also obtained from students apart from periodic review of students in internal
tests.
Outcome:
Consequent to the setting up of the IQAC in 2006
and its post-NAAC initiatives after the last NAAC accreditation, a definitive
quality improvement in all spheres of institutional activity, especially in
teaching, learning and evaluation, is discernable. The process of
documentation, planning, feedback and corrective action have become part of the
routine and a culture of quality has been internalized in the functioning of
the institution.
- Institutionalizing QA Strategies
and Processes
The IQAC monitors the quality parameters
and ensures that the standards of excellence reflected in the vision and
mission of the college are met and continued. It has institutionalized a number
of quality measures in the academic and administrative sectors. Techno-centric
and student-centric teaching-learning, Academic Audit and
Quality Circle activities involving the students and the staff are only some of
the initiatives of the IQAC for bringing about quality initiatives in the
institution.
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