About Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC)

The Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) was established in 2018 at Pranveer Singh Institute of Technology, Kanpur to develop an eco-system for conscious, consistent, and catalytic improvement in the overall performance of the institution. The IQAC has been constituted as per the recommendations of the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC). The IQAC ensures the quality culture as the prime concern through institutionalizing the initiatives taken with internal & external support and monitors its effectiveness through continuous reviews and periodic meetings. The IQAC works towards attaining excellence in all academic and administrative endeavors of the institution.

Vision

To ensure quality culture as the prime concern in professional education to institutionalize and internalize all the initiatives taken with internal and external support.

Objectives

• Blending the complete quality model with the academic process viz. planning, implementing, monitoring and guiding to enhance the effectiveness of the same.
• Compliance to standards of quality assurance.
• Conscious efforts to enhance the quality standards as per requirements.

Strategies

• Ensuring time-bound, efficient, and progressive performance of academic and administrative tasks.
• Optimization and integration of modern methods of teaching and learning.
• The credibility of the assessment and evaluation process.
• Equitable access and affordability of academic programs for various sections of society.
• Ensuring the adequacy, maintenance, and proper allocation of support structure and services.
• Sharing of research findings and networking with other institutions.

Functions

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

Outcomes of IQAC Activities

• Accreditation – NBA (All eligible U.G. Programs are accredited).
• National Ranking – NIRF (Innovation).
• All India Survey for Higher Education (AISHE).
• Feedback from stakeholders.
• Promoting Technology Enhanced Learning – MOOC.
• Collaboration with other organizations.
• Improvement in Placements records of students.
• Improvement in attainment level of Program outcomes of all programs.
• Successful conduction of International conferences, workshops, and FDPs.
• Improvement in Research activities viz. Research grants, Research publications, and Patents.
• Existence of an eco-system for startup and Incubation.
• Improvement in extracurricular and co-curricular activities for holistic development of students.