Quality Enhancement Cell
Quality Enhancement Cell
Quality is an intrinsic and recognized trademark through which a foundation can ensure the upkeep and upgrade of its education.
QEC ensures the highest quality learning and teaching curricular research in the institute through the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of the system and different procedures to achieve these operations.
Academic Quality
Academic quality is a way of describing how well the learning opportunities available to students help them to achieve their award. It is to make sure that suitable and effectual teaching, assessment, support and learning opportunities are provided.
In academic scenario Quality means satisfaction of all the
- Stakeholders
- Parents
- Students
- Society
- Teachers
- Institutions
- Government / Policy Makers
Higher Education Sector has given Four – Fold dimensions of Quality to help understand it:
- Quality as excellence
- Quality as value for money
- Quality as fitness for purpose
- Quality as transformation
Academic Quality
Quality Enhancement Cell (QEC) is multifaceted and pivotal in maintaining and elevating academic quality within higher education institutions. Through their efforts, they contribute to the overall excellence of academic programs, teaching, research, and student experiences, ultimately ensuring that institutions produce graduates who are well-prepared for their future careers.
Vision of QEC
Achieve academic excellence, concrete research output, innovative learning and creation of knowledge through quality inputs, procedures and practices in order to be amongst world’s top ranked institutions.
Mission of QEC
Our QEC mission is to strive for academic excellence in education and research by implementing of quality assurance practices to meet the requirements of the stakeholders. This would be achieved by benchmarking, implementing academic standards and integrating quality assurance practices in the teaching learning process.
Functions of QEC
- QEC would make sure that the quality and standards of the award of degrees are improved and protected.
- It is responsible for the review of quality standards and the quality of teaching and learning in each subject area.
- It is responsible for the review of academic affiliations with other institutions in terms of effective management of standards and quality of programs.
- It is responsible for defining clear and explicit standards as points of reference for the reviews to be carried out. It should also help the employees to know as to what they could expect from candidates.
- It is responsible to develop qualifications framework by setting out the attributes and abilities that can be expected from the holder of a qualification.
- QEC develops a program specifications; it clarify what learning outcome (knowledge, understanding, skills and other attributes) a student will develop on successfully completing a specific program.
- QEC develops quality assurance processes and methods of evaluation to make sure that the quality of provision and the standard of award of degrees are being kept up and to foster curriculum and staff development along with research and other academic activities.
- It ensures that quality assurance procedures are meeting the arrangements in place nationally for preserving and improving the quality of Higher Education.
QEC develops procedures for the following
- Procedure for approval of new program
- Annual Monitoring & evaluation of program which includes program monitoring, Faculty monitoring, and as well as student perceptions.
- Procedure for departmental review
- Student feedback procedure
- Employer feedback procedure
- Procedure for quality assurance
- Subject review procedure
- Institutional assessment procedure
- Procedure for program specifications
