INTERNAL QUALITY ASSURANCE CELL (IQAC)

IQAC at Unity College of Pharmacy 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 UCPB best Pharmacy colleges in Telangana.

STRATEGIES

IQAC shall evolve mechanisms and procedures for:

a) Ensuring timely, efficient and progressive performance of academic activities.

b) To assure the quality of academic and research programmes.

c) Equitable access to and affordability of academic programmes for various sections of society.

d) Optimization and integration of modern methods of teaching and learning

e) The credibility of evaluation procedures.

f) Ensuring the adequacy, maintenance and functioning of the support structure and services.

g) Research sharing and networking with other institutions in India and abroad.

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 cultured institutionalization of best practices.

FUNCTIONS

Some of the functions expected of the IQAC are:

1. Development and application of quality benchmarks.

2. Parameters for various academic and administrative activities of the institution.

3. 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.

4. Collection and analysis of feedback from all stakeholders on quality-related institutional processes.

5. Dissemination of information on various quality parameters to all stakeholders.

6. Organization of inter and intra institutional workshops, seminars on quality related

themes and promotion of quality circles.

7. Documentation of the various programmes/activities leading to quality improvement; 8. Its including adoption and dissemination of best practices.

9. Development and maintenance of institutional quality for the purpose of maintaining /enhancing the institutional quality.

10. Periodical conduct of Academic and Administrative Audit and its follow-up.

11. Preparation and submission of the Annual Quality Assurance Report (AQAR) as per guidelines and parameters of NAAC.

BENEFITS

IQAC will facilitate/contribute:

1. Ensure heightened level of clarity and focus in institutional functioning towards quality enhancement.

2. Ensure internalization of the quality culture.

3. Ensures enhancement and coordination among various activities of the institution and institutionalize all good practices.

4. provide a sound basis for decision making to improve institutional functioning.

5. Act as a dynamic system for quality changes in our institution.

6. Build an organized methodology of documentation and internal communication.