Quality Enhancement Cell Mandate :

Quality Enhancement Cell mandate.pdf

1. The head of Quality Enhancement Cell (QEC) reports directly to Vice Chancellor. She will
correspond with the outside bodies.
2. QEC is responsible for prompting 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, Bachelor with Honors,
Master’s, MPhil, PhD.
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 develop
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 the SoPs and ToRs related with quality matters and procedures for
the following (not limited to):
o Approval of new programs
o Annual monitoring and evaluation including program monitoring, faculty monitoring,
and students’ perception.
o Departmental review
o Student feedback
o Employer feedback
o Quality assurance of Master’s, M.Phil, and PhD degree programs.
o Subject review
o Institutional assessment
o Program specifications
o PGPR
o Programs’ assessment
o NoC for postgraduate programs
o Publication verification for promotion/selection and PhD research students
o Administering turnitin and generating similarity index for students’ and faculty research
o Quality assurance of affiliated colleges
o Quality related policy draft Surveys’ filling and submitting to HEC
o Qualification framework