Internal Quality Assurance Cell of Kohinoor College, Aurangabad works in accordance with quality mandates by NAAC, Bangalore, UGC, New Delhi and State Government of Maharashtra for determining and maintaining standards of teaching, learning, examination and research in institutions.

The philosophy of NAAC is ameliorative and enabling rather than punitive or judgemental, so that all constituencies of institutions of higher learning and empowered to maximize their resources, opportunities and capabilities.

In line with the above philosophy, IQAC has developed following strategies:

  • Ensuring timely, efficient and progressive performance of academic, administrative and financial tasks
  • The relevance and quality of academic and research programmes
  • Equitable access to and affordability of academic programmes for various sections of society
  • Optimization and integration of modern methods of teaching and learning
  • The credibility of evaluation procedures
  • Ensuring the adequacy, maintenance and functioning of the support structure and services
  • Research sharing and networking with other institutions in India and abroad

Following are some of the functions of the IQAC:

  • Development and application of quality benchmarks/parameters for various academic and administrative activities of the institution
  • 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
  • Arrangement for feedback response from students, parents and other stakeholders on quality-related institutional processes
  • Dissemination of information on various quality parameters of higher education
  • Organization of inter and intra institutional workshops, seminars on quality related themes and promotion of quality circles
  • Documentation of the various programmes/activities leading to quality improvement
  • Acting as a nodal agency of the Institution for coordinating quality-related activities, including adoption and dissemination of best practices
  • Development and maintenance of institutional database through MIS for the purpose of maintaining/enhancing the institutional quality
  • Development of Quality Culture in the institution
  • Preparation of the Annual Quality Assurance Report (AQAR) as per guidelines and parameters of NAAC, to be submitted to NAAC

IQAC of Kohinoor College, Aurangabad actively contributes to several academic, research, extension and co-curricular and extra-curricular activities. It has many initiatives for quality improvements during the last decade.

The following are the few of the initiatives by IQAC:

  1. Establishment of Avishkar Cell for Promotion of Research by Students and Faculty at Different Level
  2. Financial Assistance to Research Projects by Students
  3. Provision of Seed Money to Research Projects by Faculty Members
  4. Introduction of Need Based Short Term Certificate Courses
  5. Effective Feedback Mechanism for Services
  6. Effective Measures for Attainment of COs, POs and PSOs
  7. Strengthening Student Mentoring Program
  8. Effective Use of ICT in Teaching and Learning Process
  9. Effective Implementation of ICT Based Internal Evaluation
  10. Development of Culture Innovation and Entrepreneurship
  11. Promoting on and off campus placements.
  12. Effective career guidance and counselling
  13. Student Capability Enhancement through Club Activities
  14. Successful Enrolment of Students to online Courses of SWAYAM, NPTEL, ARPIT, IBM, etc.

Outcomes of efforts taken by IQAC at Kohinoor College, Aurangabad:

  • Students’ research on innovative ideas is promoted resulting in several awards at University and State Level.
  • Institutions offered seed money to teachers’ projects yearly resulting in promotion of research on the campus.
  • Successful enrolment of more than 1.5 thousand students in NPTEL and IBM online courses.
  • Appreciation by affiliating university for outstanding work on attainment of COs, POs and PSOs.
  • College received Ideal Examination Centre award thrice by the affiliating university.
  • B. A. M. University appreciated efforts of IQAC towards Continuous Internal Evaluation Process.
  • Good and positive results are achieved through effective student mentoring programs.
  • Continuous incremental growth in university examination results.
  • Improvement in on and off campus placement.
  • Several students qualified different competitive exams.
  • Positive number of students going for higher studies.
  • Outstanding achievement in terms of social activities towards Covid-19 services, Covid-19 Vaccination Awareness Program.