Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC), Pragjyotishpur University
Welcome to the site of the Internal Quality
Assurance Cell (IQAC), Pragjyotishpur
University. Our commitment to quality assurance reflects our dedication to providing an
exceptional educational experience. The IQAC plays a pivotal role in ensuring that our
academic programs, research initiatives, and administrative processes adhere to the highest
standards
About the IQAC, PU
IQAC is meant to monitor the quality of educational
activities in the institute, and thus
to maintain and promote the progress of such activities in order to attain learning outcomes and
objectives effectively. By taking up and reviewing various measures including innovative
pedagogical strategies and assessment of student performance, the IQAC can function as a
comprehensive assurer-cum-sustainer of enriched education across the lifetime of an HEI. Due
mention may be made that the IQAC is not just a body of members. Rather, it is a
“participative” and “facilitative” structure designed to work in tandem with both teaching and
non-teaching staff as well as students, and thus to identify favourable means to enhance the
academic, the co-academic, and the net performance of an HEI. This university has taken the
initiative to start the IQAC from the very beginning. Some ways through which the IQAC seeks
to achieve the said purposes are as under:
- Establishing yardsticks of quality for various academic, co-academic, and
administrative responsibilities of the institution, and communicating the same.
- Fostering a learner-oriented educational environment
- Honing digital literacy amongst faculty and encouraging them to use Information and
Communications Technology (ICT) in education so that learning becomes possible
regardless of time or place
- Synchronising various activities concerning quality, such as execution of best practices
and organising inter-institutional workshops on, say, research methodology, or seminars
on the latest areas of cross-disciplinary inquiry.
- Collecting and assessing feedback from direct stakeholders––students, faculty, and
parents––in the education process with the aim of identifying and implementing quality
measures for achieving curricular and co-curricular objectives adequately
- Creating and maintaining an institutional web archive for recording data regarding all
processes meant to promote the quality of teaching, learning, and research in the
institute, and to augment the net performance of the institute
- Readying the Annual Quality Assurance Report (AQAR) as per NAAC directions and
handing it over to the concerned committee for review
Gearing up for Quality
Mentioned below are certain tasks the IQAC must see to once deliberation on quality
enhancement is done:
- The IQAC designs the Academic Calendar for a given academic year and circulates it
amongst coordinators/deans of the different schools of the institution for needful action
going forward.
- At the commencement of an academic session, quality-oriented parameters and goals
are intimated to all schools of the institution.
- Based on the said parameters and goals, the IQAC designs a faculty charter format. This
format, subject to periodic fine-tuning as and where required, lists the minimum targets
across the seven NAAC-listed assessment criteria that a faculty is expected to achieve
over the course of an academic session. Against these targets, a faculty specifies his or
her own targets that he or she aspires to fulfill during that session. In relation to the
targets thus set, the faculty submits to the IQAC a progress report at the end of every
month and, at the end of the session, his or her individual charter.
- Feedback forms prepared by the IQAC are sent out to such stakeholders of the
institution as students, faculty, and parents, and collected for review at the end of each
academic session.
Contact Information
IQAC Coordinator: Shri N. K. Sinha, Faculty of English, School of Language, Literature, &
Linguistics, Pragjyotishpur University
Contact No.: +91 87619 61178
Email: nirupam@pju.edu.in
