The Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) of Yashavantrao Chavan Institute of Science, Satara (Autonomous) is established on June, 2001. The IQAC is located in the Room No. G-2-3, the second floor of G Building. The Director of YCIS, Dr. B. T. Jadhav is the Chairperson and Dr. Jaykumar J. Chavan, Assistant Professor in Botany and Head, Department of Biotechnology is the Director of the IQAC. The IQAC Committee includes all stakeholders of the Institute, members of the Management and Administration, and members of local community and industry experts. The IQAC stimulates the academic environ for promotion of quality of teaching-learning process and research in the institute. This is reflected in the various grants received by the institute. IQAC encourages the departments for innovations and best practices
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To ensure quality culture as the prime concern for the Higher Education Institutions through
institutionalizing and internalizing all the initiatives taken with internal and external support.
- 1) To develop a system for conscious, consistent and catalytic action to improve the academic and administrative performance of the institution.
- 2) To promote measures for institutional functioning towards quality enhancement through internalization of quality culture and institutionalization of best practices.
- 1) Development and application of quality benchmarks
- 2) Parameters for various academic and administrative activities of the institution
- 3) 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
- 4) Collection and analysis of feedback from all stakeholders on quality-related institutional processes
- 5) Dissemination of information on various quality parameters to all stakeholders
- 6) Organization of inter and intra institutional workshops, seminars on quality related themes and promotion of quality circles
- 7) Documentation of the various programmes/activities leading to quality improvement
- 1) Ensuring timely, efficient and progressive performance of academic, administrative and financial tasks
- 2) Relevant and quality academic/ research programmes
- 3) Equitable access to and affordability of academic programmes for various sections of society
- 4) Optimization and integration of modern methods of teaching and learning
- 5) The credibility of assessment and evaluation process Ensuring the adequacy, maintenance and proper allocation of support structure and services
- 6) Sharing of research findings and networking with other institutions in India and abroad
- 1) Acting as a nodal agency of the Institution for coordinating quality-related activities, including adoption and dissemination of best practices
- 2) Development and maintenance of institutional database through MIS for the purpose of maintaining /enhancing the institutional quality
- 1) Contributing to National Development
- 2) Fostering Global Competencies among Students
- 3) Inculcating a Value System among Students
- 4) Promoting the Use of Technology
- 5) Quest for Excellence
