Quality Enhancement Cell

QUALITY ENHANCEMENT CELL

It can guarantee that the institution is maintaining some level of standards and quality to ensure the competence level of its educational programs.

Major Functions of Quality Enhancement Cell:

1. The Quality Enhancement Cell (QEC) is to be headed by the Director directly reporting to the Principal and Acting Chairperson. He is the correspondent of the SCET with the outside bodies.
2. QEC is responsible for promoting public confidence that the quality and standards of the award of degrees are enhanced and safeguarded.
3. QEC is responsible for the review of quality standards and the quality of teaching and learning in each subject area.
4. QEC is responsible for the review of academic affiliations with other institutions in terms of effective management of standards and quality of programs.
5. QEC is responsible for defining clear and explicit standards as points of reference to the reviews to be carried out. It should also help the employees to know as to what they could expect from candidates.
6. QEC is responsible to develop qualifications framework by setting out the attributes and abilities that can be expected from the holder of a qualification, i.e. Bachelors or Bachelor with Honors.
7.   QEC is responsible to develop program specifications. These are standard set of information clarifying what knowledge, understanding, skills and other attributes a student will have developed on successfully completing a specific program.
8. QEC is responsible to develop quality assurance processes and methods of evaluation to affirm that the quality of provision and the standard of awards are being maintained and to foster curriculum, subject and staff development, together with research and other scholarly activities.
9. QEC is responsible to ensure that the university’s quality assurance procedures are designed to fit in with the arrangements in place nationally for maintaining and improving the quality of Higher Education.
10. QEC is responsible to develop procedures for the following:
    1. Approval of new programs
    2. Annual monitoring and evaluation including program monitoring, faculty monitoring, and student’s perception.
    3. Departmental review
    4. Student feedback
    5. Employer feedback
    6. Quality assurance of the degree programs.
    7. Subject review
    8. Institutional assessment
    9. Program specifications
    10. Qualification framework

Development of SAR

QEC provides clear guidelines to the departmental heads and the Program Convener (PC) regarding preparation of SAR in accordance with the Objectives Based Education (OBE) requirements.

Program Teams – QEC

All departmental QEC members and QEC departmental conveners will directly report to QEC Head/Director for their departmental QEC proceedings.

Quality Enhancement Cell Organogram

To handle the demanding matters of QEC, each department has assigned members with some roles to ensure the provision of SAR reports as per the guidelines of the Director-QEC. The standard expected roles of the Program Team Members have also been described at the bottom of the attached sheet.

Structure of QEC Body for the year 2022-onwards

All departmental QEC members and QEC departmental conveners will directly report to QEC Head/Director for their departmental QEC proceedings.

Description of the Designated Roles:

^*QEC Convener (PQC) will be responsible to arrange departmental meetings to follow up and ensure the timely delivery of SAR reports as and when required by the QEC-SCET Team.

^**Program QEC Member (PQM) will be responsible to arrange all sections/chapters with coordination of all the departmental faculty so that to compile the report well in time.

^***Program QEC Secretary (PQS) will be responsible for recording of minutes from the discussions/meetings and to circulate within one day of the meeting held.

OBE Activity Chart under QEC