Vision: To foster an academic environment where quality is ingrained in every process of the University's online education delivery, ensuring excellence and satisfaction for all stakeholders.
Mission: Conduct periodic academic and administrative audits for continuous improvement; promote accountability, self-assessment, transparency and autonomy; leverage modern technology to automate quality-related workflows; develop and refine protocols based on stakeholder feedback; enhance the capabilities of both academic and administrative staff through targeted training and capacity building.
Objective: The objective of Centre for Internal Quality Assurance is to develop and put in place a comprehensive and dynamic internal quality assurance system to ensure that programmes of higher education in the Open and Distance Learning mode and Online mode being implemented by the Higher Educational Institution are of acceptable quality and further improved on continuous basis.
Functions:
The functions of Centre for Internal Quality Assurance would, inter alia, include the following, namely:-
To maintain quality in the services provided to the learners.
To undertake self-evaluative and reflective exercises for continual quality improvement in all the systems and processes of the Higher Educational Institution.
To contribute in the identification of the key areas in which Higher Educational Institution should maintain quality.
To devise mechanism to ensure that the quality of Open and Distance Learning programmes and Online programmes matches with the quality of relevant programmes in conventional mode.
To devise mechanisms for interaction with and obtaining feedback from all stakeholders namely, learners, teachers, staff, parents, society, employers, and Government for quality improvement.
To suggest measures to the authorities of Higher Educational Institution for qualitative improvement.
To facilitate the implementation of its recommendations through periodic reviews.
To organise workshops/ seminars/ symposium on quality related themes, ensure participation of all stakeholders, and disseminate the reports of such activities among all the stakeholders in Higher Educational Institution.
To develop and collate best practices in all areas leading to quality enhancement in services to the learners and disseminate the same all concerned in Higher Educational Institution.
To collect, collate and disseminate accurate, complete and reliable statistics about the quality of the programme(s).
To ensure that Programme Project Report for each programme is according to the norms and guidelines prescribed by the Commission and wherever necessary by the appropriate regulatory authority having control over the programme.
To put in place a mechanism to ensure the proper implementation of Programme Project Reports.
To maintain a record of Annual Plans and Annual Reports of Higher Educational Institution, review them periodically and generate actionable reports.
To provide inputs to the Higher Educational Institution for restructuring of programmes in order to make them relevant to the job market.
To facilitate system based research on ways of creating learner centric environment and to bring about qualitative change in the entire system.
To act as a nodal coordinating unit for seeking assessment and accreditation from a designated body for accreditation such as NAAC etc.
To adopt measures to ensure internalisation and institutionalisation of quality enhancement practices through periodic accreditation and audit.
To coordinate between Higher Educational Institution and the Commission for various quality related initiatives or guidelines.
To obtain information from other Higher Educational Institutions on various quality benchmarks or parameters and best practices.
To record activities undertaken on quality assurance in the form of an annual report of Centre for Internal Quality Assurance.
It will be mandatory for Centre for Internal Quality Assurance to submit Annual Reports to the Statutory Authorities or Bodies of the Higher Educational Institution about its activities at the end of each academic session. A copy of report in the format as specified by the Commission, duly approved by the statutory authorities of the Higher Educational Institution shall be submitted annually to the Commission.
