IQAC OBJECTIVES

The IQAC is an essential component in ensuring that the institute adheres to quality standards and provides a conducive learning environment for its students. The cell has played a significant role in the institute's accreditation process and has helped the institute achieve various quality benchmarks.

Some of the objectives of IQAC are:

• Developing and implementing quality benchmarks for academic and administrative activities of the institution.
• Creating a student-centric learning environment that promotes academic excellence and holistic development of students.
• Facilitating the process of accreditation and assessment of the institution by external agencies.
• Providing a platform for stakeholders to express their opinions and feedback about the institution's performance.
• Ensuring the effective utilization of resources and promoting transparency and accountability in the functioning of the institution.
• Encouraging research and innovation activities among faculty and students.
• Creating and maintaining a database of academic and administrative activities for future reference and analysis

IQAC GUIDELINES

The IQAC is a mechanism to ensure quality enhancement and sustenance in higher education institutions. The IQAC guidelines for our institute is based on standards set by NAAC includes following key points:

• Composition: IQAC should be headed by a senior academic administrator and consist of faculty members, administrative staff, and student representatives.
• Functions: IQAC should develop and implement quality benchmarks and parameters, monitor the academic and administrative performance of the institution, and develop an action plan for quality enhancement.
• Accreditation: IQAC should ensure that the institution maintains and enhances its quality and prepare the institution for accreditation by an authorized agency.
• Best Practices: IQAC should identify and promote the best practices in teaching, learning, research, and administration.
• Feedback Mechanism: IQAC should develop and implement a feedback mechanism from stakeholders (students, faculty, and staff) to improve the quality of academic and administrative activities.
• Continuous Professional Development: IQAC should facilitate continuous professional development of faculty and staff by organizing workshops, seminars, and training programs.
• Infrastructure Development: IQAC should ensure the development and maintenance of infrastructure and facilities for academic and administrative activities.
• Institutional Social Responsibility: IQAC should encourage the institution to undertake social responsibility activities in the surrounding community.
• Financial Planning: IQAC should ensure that financial planning and management are carried out effectively, and the institution's resources are utilized optimally.

IQAC COMMITTEE

The composition of an IQAC committee of SVKM’s IOP Dhule includes the following members:

MINUTES OF MEETINGS

The Minutes of Meetings for each academic year are given below:

IQAC INITIATIVES

1. E-Learning Management System

SVKM’s Institute of Pharmacy, Dhule adopted Moodle as a Learning Management System (LMS). Moodle was designed to provide educators, administrators, and learners with an open, robust and secure platform to create and deliver learning material. Moodle also facilitates the import features for use with other specific systems, such as importing quizzes or entire courses.

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2. Flipped Classroom Activity

Flipped learning is a pedagogical approach in which the conventional concept of classroom- based learning is inverted. Students are introduced to the learning material before class commences. The classroom time is then used to extend the understanding of the topic through various activities like discussion with teacher and peers, problem-solving activities in a workshop situation facilitated by teachers.

3. Think Pair Share

Think-Pair-Share aids students in developing a conceptual understanding of a topic, fostering the ability to filter information and draw conclusions, and nurture the ability to consider the additional point of view by fruitful discussion.

In Think-Pair-Share the teacher asks a question to the whole class, as he or she would do at the beginning or at some point of the lesson. Students get some solo time to think about a possible answer- or to write it down- then they turn to their classmate sitting next to them and get some pair-time to share and discuss what they have just found out. At the end of this activity, the teacher randomly chooses two or three pairs and asks them to briefly share their answers or responses.

Pairs will most of the time succeed where single students would have probably failed.

Being the simplest and most famous cooperative learning strategy, the faculty of SVKM’s Institute of

Pharmacy implemented Think Pair Share activity for the students.

4. Inquiry-based Learning

In this strategy, the class is divided into a group of 10 students. An individual topic/question/objective is assigned to each group. Each individual group is then asked to explore the topic by utilizing various online and offline resources such as the internet, reference books, official books from the library, official guidelines, etc. and give the best possible solution for the inquired topic. Finally, the students prepare a short presentation (4-5 slides) and presented in front of the class.

5. Other Initiatives

a. Seed Grant for faculty members

Seed money grant will be available to the faculty to expand the research activities in new avenues and emerging segments for establishing suitability of an idea for research. It provides the financial support for pilot scale validation of the project and to motivate faculty members to take up research on priority basis. Seed money of up to Rs. 1 lakh may be sanctioned to the faculty after receipt of proposal.

b. Add on Certificate Program

Add on / Certificate Programs for students are introduced to provide additional learner’s centric skill oriented technical training that improves the professional and employability skill of the students.

c. Local Guardian System

Local Guardian System is successfully implemented to support the professional advancement of the students by relaying experiences and knowledge of mentors in the key performance areas of teaching, research and support service.

d. Slow Learners Management System

The aim of the remedial teaching is to provide the learning support to the students who lag far behind their counterparts in performance.

e. Expert talkfor students and faculties

IQAC Organize Workshops/Seminars/Conference to help the institution reach the quality benchmark as given by NAAC.