A structured institutional mechanism for quality assurance, continuous improvement, academic excellence, documentation, accreditation, and stakeholder engagement.
Aeren College of Commerce & Management of Mass Media and Management Studies is committed to fostering a culture of excellence through continuous quality enhancement in academic and administrative functioning. The Internal Quality Assurance Cell serves as the institutional mechanism for planning, monitoring, and promoting quality initiatives in alignment with NAAC, UGC, and University of Mumbai guidelines.
The IQAC functions as a catalyst for institutional improvement by developing systems for conscious, consistent, and continuous enhancement of academic and administrative performance. It promotes innovation, stakeholder participation, quality assurance practices, and supports the achievement of the College’s Vision and Mission.
The College recognises quality as a fundamental component of institutional excellence and sustainable development.
IQAC aims to institutionalise quality assurance mechanisms, promote quality consciousness, support innovation, strengthen documentation, and facilitate best practices.
Develop and institutionalise quality assurance mechanisms for continuous improvement.
Promote quality consciousness among students, faculty, staff, and stakeholders.
Facilitate quality benchmarks prescribed by NAAC, UGC, University, and regulatory bodies.
Encourage innovative teaching-learning practices, research, extension, and technology use.
Monitor institutional performance through systematic data collection, analysis, and review.
Support preparation and submission of AQAR, SSR, and quality-related documentation.
Promote stakeholder participation in quality enhancement and institutional development.
Facilitate best practices, sustainability initiatives, and value-based holistic education.
This policy applies to all institutional stakeholders and covers academic, administrative, research, extension, governance, infrastructure, and quality assurance activities.
Teaching-learning, curriculum enrichment, student support, and academic performance improvement.
Research promotion, innovation activities, extension programmes, and community engagement.
Administrative effectiveness, institutional planning, infrastructure, and quality systems.
Quality records, accreditation evidence, audit reports, data management, and institutional reporting.
IQAC undertakes functions across quality assurance, academic excellence, research, documentation, feedback, faculty development, best practices, and quality audits.
Develop benchmarks and promote continuous improvement across departments and committees.
Monitor teaching-learning, academic performance, ICT-enabled education, and skill initiatives.
Promote research culture, publications, projects, consultancy, patents, and community engagement.
Coordinate AQAR, SSR, accreditation documents, institutional records, and evidence management.
Collect, analyse, and act upon feedback from students, faculty, alumni, employers, and stakeholders.
Encourage FDPs, FIPs, refresher courses, orientation programmes, research, and academic leadership.
Promote environmental consciousness, gender equity, inclusiveness, SDGs, and social responsibility.
Maintain institutional databases and conduct internal reviews, quality audits, and assessments.
IQAC functions through systematic constitution, quarterly meetings, quality planning, stakeholder participation, documentation, evidence management, and accountability.
IQAC shall be constituted as per NAAC guidelines with institutional leadership and stakeholder representation.
IQAC meetings shall be conducted at least once every quarter during the academic year.
Annual quality plans and institutional quality objectives shall be prepared at the beginning of each academic year.
Feedback and suggestions from stakeholders shall be integrated into quality enhancement initiatives.
Quality records shall be maintained in physical and digital formats for accreditation, audits, and compliance.
IQAC activities shall be conducted with transparency, accountability, and ethical responsibility.
IQAC implements quality initiatives through planning, execution, documentation, reporting, review, and corrective improvement.
Identify quality goals, consult stakeholders, and prepare annual quality plans and action strategies.
Coordinate quality enhancement activities, workshops, audits, and approved institutional initiatives.
Maintain quality records, reports, meeting minutes, feedback analyses, evidence, and databases.
Submit AQAR and quality reports, review initiatives, identify gaps, and implement corrective measures.
IQAC effectiveness is assessed through monitoring indicators, evaluation mechanisms, and quality improvement measures.
The Internal Quality Assurance Cell shall function in compliance with NAAC guidelines, UGC regulations, University of Mumbai statutes, Maharashtra Public Universities Act, 2016, Government of Maharashtra policies, and the institutional quality assurance framework.
This policy shall be reviewed annually or as required in response to changes in NAAC, UGC, University directives, or institutional requirements.
