IQAC
About Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC)
- The Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) was established in 2007 at Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) as a post-accreditation quality sustenance measure.The IQAC has been constituted as per the recommendations of the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC). The IQAC ensures the effective implementation of quality initiatives through continuous reviews and periodic meetings. The IQAC works towards attaining excellence in all academic and administrative endeavours of the institution. The IQAC works in coordination with Ranking and Accreditation (RAAC) and Institutional Information Services (IIS) team of VIT.
Objectives
- To develop a system for conscious, consistent and catalytic action to improve the academic and administrative performance of the institution.
- To promote measures for institutional functioning towards quality enhancement through internalization of quality culture and institutionalization of best practices.
Vision
To ensure quality culture as the prime concern for Vellore Institute of Technology through institutionalizing and internalizing all the initiatives taken with internal and external support.
Strategies
Shall evolve mechanisms and procedures for:
- Ensuring timely, efficient and progressive performance of academic, administrative and financial tasks
- Relevant and quality academic/ research programmes
- Equitable access to and affordability of academic programmes for various sections of society
- Optimization and integration of modern methods of teaching and learning
- The credibility of assessment and evaluation process
- Ensuring the adequacy, maintenance and proper allocation of support structure and services
- Sharing of research findings and networking with other institutions in India and abroad
Functions
Some of the functions expected of the IQAC are:
- 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 programmes/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
- Preparation and submission of the Annual Quality Assurance Report (AQAR) as per guidelines and parameters of NAAC
Benefits
Will facilitate / contribute to:
- Ensure clarity and focus in institutional functioning towards quality enhancement
- Ensure internalization of the quality culture
- Ensure enhancement and coordination among various activities of the institution and institutionalize all good practices
- Provide a sound basis for decision-making to improve institutional functioning
- Act as a dynamic system for quality changes in HEIs
- Build an organised methodology of documentation and internal communication
Outcomes of Activities of IQAC at VIT:
- Accreditation – NAAC, ABET, ACBSP
- National Ranking – NIRF, QS I.GAUGE, FICCI
- International Ranking/Rating – QS, THE, QS BRICS, QS STAR
- AICTE Approval for professional courses
- UGC Graded autonomy
- Media Rankings
- MHRD All India Survey for Higher Education
- Swachh Bharat Summer Internship Program
- Swachhta Ranking
- Feedback from stakeholders
- Fully Flexible Credit System
- Curriculum for Applied Learning
- Promoting Technology Enhanced Learning - MOOC
- Annual Quality Assurance Report
Minutes of the IQAC Meeting
IQAC Initiatives
| S.No. | Year | Name of Quality initiative by IQAC |
Date of conducting activity |
Number of participants |
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| 1 | 2014-15 | International Conference on Internationalization of Higher Education and Quality Assurance - Trends & Challenges (IHEQA'15) | 09-01-15 | 10-01-15 | 30 |
| 2 | 2014-15 | Workshop on Creative Thinking | 23-01-16 | 24-01-16 | 8 |
| 3 | 2015-16 | IQAC Day - Brain Storming session on Quality Issues | 19-11-15 | 19-11-15 | 97 |
| 4 | 2015-16 | Brainstorming Session to Improve the Quality of Higher Education | 05-01-16 |
06-01-2016, 13-01-16 |
36 |
| 5 | 2015-16 | IQAC Day - Quality related issues pertaining to academics and research | 01-12-15 | 01-12-15 | 7 |
| 6 | 2015-16 | One day Seminar on Enhancing the Quality of Academic Research in Higher Educational Institutions | 11-03-16 | 11-03-16 | 82 |
| 7 | 2016-17 | Workshop on Digital Tools for Teaching and Evaluation | 06-07-16 | 06-07-16 | 41 |
| 8 | 2016-17 | Workshop on Writing Funded Project Proposals and Publishing Quality Research Papers | 20-08-16 | 20-08-16 | 51 |
| 9 | 2016-17 | Workshop on Inter Disciplinary Research for preparing International Funded Project Proposals | 10-09-16 | 10-09-16 | 40 |
| 10 | 2016-17 | Workshop on Writing Funded Project Proposals and Publishing Quality Research Papers | 17-09-16 | 17-09-16 | 40 |
| 11 | 2016-17 | Workshop on Writing a Good Paper for an International Journal | 27-10-16 | 27-10-16 | 131 |
| 12 | 2016-17 | Workshop on Hot questions in Science, Engineering & Technology (SET) | 05-11-16 | 05-11-16 | 67 |
| 13 | 2016-17 | Workshop on PBL (Project Based Learning) | 18-11-16 | 18-11-16 | 93 |
| 14 | 2016-17 | Three-day QS Summer School Summit | 05-12-16 | 07-12-16 | 224 |
| 15 | 2016-17 | Workshop on Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) - Tranfer Learning to Usage Practise | 13-12-16 | 13-12-16 | 82 |
| 16 | 2016-17 | Workshop on Fostering Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) Among 21st Century Learners | 07-01-17 | 07-01-17 | 16 |
| 17 | 2016-17 | Workshop on Educator - Education Educated (A Holistic Development of Teacher-Student Relationship) | 24-02-17 | 24-02-17 | 27 |
| 18 | 2016-17 | Workshop on Grammarly & other Technical Tools for Effective Writing | 10-03-17 | 10-03-17 | 26 |
| 19 | 2016-17 | International Symposium on Quality Enhancement in Higher Education | 21-04-17 | 22-04-17 | 90 |
| 20 | 2016-17 | FDP on How to Handle Stress and Live your Potential | 09-05-17 | 09-05-17 | 25 |
| 21 | 2017-18 | Workshop on Advanced Technical Tools for Classrooms | 20-07-17 | 20-07-17 | 32 |
| 22 | 2017-18 | Workshop on Quality Issues in Research Publications | 25-07-17 | 25-07-17 | 50 |
| 23 | 2017-18 | One Day Workshop on Academic and Administrative Audit | 10-08-17 | 10-08-17 | 113 |
| 24 | 2017-18 | Workshop on Digital Tools for Classroom Management | 17-08-17 | 17-08-17 | 35 |
| 25 | 2017-18 | Workshop on Virtual Classroom & Classroom Management Tool | 03-10-17 | 03-10-17 | 59 |
| 26 | 2017-18 | FDP on Copyrights, Plagiarism and Ethics - A Reflection | 20-11-17 | 20-11-17 | 59 |
| 27 | 2017-18 | Workshop on Curriculum Design and implementation | 23-11-17 | 24-11-17 | 43 |
| 28 | 2017-18 | Workshop on Flipped Classroom | 18-12-17 | 18-12-17 | 101 |
| 29 | 2017-18 | Workshop on Writing Winning Funded Project Proposals | 10-02-18 | 10-02-18 | 36 |
| 30 | 2017-18 | FDP on Mapping Student Learning Objectives | 08-03-18 | 08-03-18 | 42 |
| 31 | 2017-18 | 5S (Sort, Stabilize, Sustain, Shine and Standardize) implementation A Quality initiative for academic staff development" | 17-03-18 | 17-03-18 | 60 |
| 32 | 2017-18 | "User Education Program on Science Direct and Scopus" | 28-03-18 | 28-03-18 | 18 |
| 33 | 2017-18 | User Education Program IEEE-IEL Online Database | 29-03-18 | 29-03-18 | 13 |
| 34 | 2017-18 | Author Workshop on "How to Publish" | 04-04-18 | 04-04-18 | 50 |
| 35 | 2017-18 | National level Seminar on "Quality Enhancement in Teaching Methodology in Higher Education Methodology in Higher Education for Prospective Employability" | 18-04-18 | 18-04-18 | 105 |
| 36 | 2017-18 | Workshop on "Management of Intellectual Property Assets and Rights" | 20-04-18 | 20-04-18 | 37 |
| 37 | 2018-19 | One Day Workshop on "NAAC Accreditation Revised Framework" | 19-07-18 | 19-07-18 | 45 |
| 38 | 2018-19 | Workshop on NAAC & NBA Accreditation - Process & Challenges | 20-09-18 | 20-09-18 | 60 |
| 39 | 2018-19 | Seminar on "Enhancing the Quality of Research in Higher Education" | 08-10-18 | 08-10-18 | 34 |
| 40 | 2018-19 | National Seminar on Digitisation of Higher Education for Quality Enhancement of Teaching-Learning and Research: Challenges and Opportunities - Academic Collaborating Partner NAAC | 22-10-18 | 23-10-18 | 62 |
| 41 | 2018-19 | Seminar on Cloud Ethics | 22-10-18 | 22-10-18 | 120 |
| 42 | 2018-19 | IQAC Talk on Health Care for IT Professionals | 22-10-18 | 22-10-18 | 40 |
| 43 | 2018-19 | Seminar on Sustainable learning | 22-10-18 | 22-10-18 | 60 |
| 44 | 2018-19 | Seminar on Emphasizing Human Values | 22-10-18 | 22-10-18 | 60 |
| 45 | 2018-19 | Seminar on "Psychology Oriented Approach on Handling Classroom Sessions" | 23-10-18 | 23-10-18 | 38 |
| 46 | 2018-19 | Training program for lab assistants on quality initiative in laboratories | 23-10-18 | 23-10-18 | 11 |
| 47 | 2018-19 | Rally on Social awareness | 23-10-18 | 23-10-18 | 78 |
| 48 | 2018-19 | Workshop on Enhancing teaching-learning and course quality through Quality Circle | 24-10-18 | 24-10-18 | 58 |
| 49 | 2018-19 | Workshop on Enhancing the employee involvement on organisational performance through Quality Circle" | 24-10-18 | 24-10-18 | 78 |
| 50 | 2018-19 | Guest lecture on Quality Models | 24-10-18 | 24-10-18 | 35 |
| 51 | 2018-19 | Motivational talk on Leading Quality Life | 24-10-18 | 24-10-18 | 100 |
| 52 | 2018-19 | Panel discussion on Quality enhancement in higher education | 24-10-18 | 24-10-18 | 8 |
| 53 | 2018-19 | Talk on Quality in Research | 24-10-18 | 24-10-18 | 36 |
| 54 | 2018-19 | Workshop on Quality enhancement in teaching and learning process in higher education | 24-10-18 | 24-10-18 | 20 |
| 55 | 2018-19 | Importance of maintaining clean campus for house keeping people | 24-10-18 | 24-10-18 | 100 |
| 56 | 2018-19 | Swachh Bharat Campus drive | 24-10-18 | 24-10-18 | 30 |
| 57 | 2018-19 | Student Brainstroming session | 25-10-18 | 25-10-18 | 35 |
| 58 | 2018-19 | Faculty Brainstroming session | 25-10-18 | 25-10-18 | 40 |
| 59 | 2018-19 | Quality Show | 79 | ||
| 60 | 2018-19 | Poster Exhibition on Quality Culture | 25-10-18 | 25-10-18 | 53 |
| 61 | 2018-19 | Talk on No Health without Mental Health | 25-10-18 | 25-10-18 | 110 |
| 62 | 2018-19 | Open Mike session on Quality | 25-10-18 | 25-10-18 | 110 |
| 63 | 2018-19 | Debate - Quality at workplace.(Implementation of Prevention of Sexual Harassment at Workplace- A Myth or a Reality) | 26-10-18 | 26-10-18 | 78 |
| 64 | 2018-19 | One Day Workshop on "NAAC Revised Accreditation Framework" | 03-12-18 | 03-12-18 | 112 |
| 65 | 2018-19 | IQAC Lecture - Awareness Programme on QS Subject Ranking and Strategies | 12-12-18 | 12-12-18 | 94 |
| 66 | 2018-19 | IQAC Lecture - Awareness Programme on QS Subject Ranking and Strategies | 09-01-19 | 09-01-19 | 60 |
| 67 | 2018-19 | IQAC Lecture - Awareness Programme on QS Subject Ranking and Strategies | 23-01-19 | 23-01-19 | 45 |
| 68 | 2018-19 | IQAC Lecture - Awareness Programme on QS Subject Ranking and Strategies | 25-01-19 | 25-01-19 | 35 |
| 69 | 2018-19 | Seminar on "Assessment and Evaluation of Engineering Education | 12-02-19 | 12-02-19 | 55 |
| 70 | 2018-19 | One-day Workshop on Institutional Challenges in the New Methodology NAACs Revised Accreditation Framework | 18-02-19 | 18-02-19 | 132 |
| 71 | 2018-19 | IQAC Lecture - Awareness Programme on QS Subject Ranking and Strategies | 27-02-19 | 27-02-19 | 64 |
| 72 | 2018-19 | One Day Workshop on "Simplified Kundalini Yoga for Improved Quality of Life" | 02-03-19 | 02-03-19 | 34 |
| 73 | 2018-19 | Seminar on Students participation in Quality Assurance of Higher Educational Institutions | 26-03-19 | 26-03-19 | 110 |
| 74 | 2018-19 | Seminar on Qualityin Education for students | 01-04-19 | 01-04-19 | 52 |
| 75 | 2018-19 | National Level Workshop on "Quality Enhancement in Assessment and Evaluation Methodology of Learning in Higher Education Institution" | 30-04-19 | 30-04-19 | 50 |
| 76 | 2019-20 | IQAC Lecture - Awareness Programme on QS Subject Ranking and Strategies | 09-07-19 | 09-07-19 | 16 |
| 77 | 2019-20 | Rankings for VITBS - Present and Future | 12-07-19 | 12-07-19 | 24 |
| 78 | 2019-20 | IQAC Lecture - QS Subject Ranking and Strategies | 17-07-19 | 17-07-19 | 65 |
| 79 | 2019-20 | One Day FDP on "Role of Teachers and IQAC in Promoting Digital Initiatives in Higher Education Institutions" in association with Academic Staff College and EVR Central Library | 12-08-19 | 12-08-19 | 45 |
| 80 | 2019-20 | IQAC Lecture - Strategies for QS Subject Rankings - Physics and Mathematics | 21-08-19 | 21-08-19 | 15 |
| 81 | 2019-20 | First VIT-IQAC Student Wing | 12-09-19 | 12-09-19 | 13 |
Members
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Chairperson |
Vice Chancellor |
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Management Representatives |
Pro Vice Chancellor, Vellore Campus |
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Pro Vice Chancellor, Chennai Campus |
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Administrative Representatives |
Registrar |
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Additional Registrar |
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Director RAAC |
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CoE- Vellore |
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Deputy CoE - Chennai |
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Dean Academics – Vellore |
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Dean Academics – Chennai |
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Dean Academic Research - Vellore |
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Dean Academic Research- Chennai |
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Director Sponsored research – Vellore |
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Dean Sponsored research - Chennai |
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Director Students welfare - Vellore |
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Director Students welfare – Chennai |
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Director - Placement and Training |
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Director Librarian |
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Assistant Director – RAAC |
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Assistant Director, Systems |
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Chief Financial Officer |
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Head Estates |
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Teachers representatives |
Dr. P.Jagadeesh, Professor, SCALE |
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Dr.T.Shankar, Associate Professor, SENSE |
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Dr. Thirumalaivasan, Associate Professor, SELECT |
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Dr. S. Balakrishnan, Assistant Professor, SAS |
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Dr.Angeline Gautami Fernando, Asst. Professor (Sr)- VITBS |
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Dr. Arockia Selva Kumar, Asso. Professor- SMBS |
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Local society representative |
Mr. M. R Ravi Sankar, Advocate, Vellore |
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Student representatives |
Shivani Priya, (16BCE0828) |
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S Nithin (16BME0062) |
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Mr. Ruchir Saraswat (16BEE1077) |
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Ms. Pelluri Sai Ramya Meghana (16BCE1115) |
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Alumni representative |
Mr. S.M. Kannan |
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Employer/Industrialist representatives |
Mr. Ashok Ranjith R, Cognizant Technology Solutions |
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Mr. S Naveenkumar, Tata Consultancy Services |
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Dr. Madhan Mohan, ABB Chennai |
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Dr. Palani V, Genewin Biotech |
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External Academia representative |
Dr. Samuel, G. L., Professor , IIT Madras |
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Stakeholder (Parent) representative |
R. Vimala |
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IQAC Coordinator |
Dr. Kuppan P, Deputy Director IQAC |
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Dr. Brintha Theresa, Deputy Director RAAC |
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Dr. Renuga Devi S, Assistant Director IQAC |