Who is your University Compliance Officer ?

Receiving regulations, notification from the State Education Councils, UGC and host of other regulatory bodies, accreditation and ranking, AISHE etc.? Often these communications are addressed to the VCs who assign these to the Registrars or Dir IQACs for compliance. Sometimes, VCs are at loss to understand who would be the right person. A pushover Registrar […]
State, State Private and Central Universities’ Technical programs don’t require AICTE annual e-Approval ?

Background AICTE is a standard setting and regulatory body like BCI, ICAR, NCTE, MCI but poor thing, can’t exercise control over its technical programs being run in universities. It must be feeling the pain of having been deprived of the power by the Hon’ble Supreme Court since 2001. While other regulatory bodies enjoy sending their […]
Wonder why NAAC has assigned Function of collection and analysis of Students Feedback to IQAC ?

IQAC Functions clause (d) provides -“Collection and analysis of feedback from all stakeholders on quality-related institutional processes”. Well in my opinion, Feedback on curriculum, syllabus and teaching-learning (an academic quality related process) should be kept out of IQAC preview. Obtaining Students Feedback is an academic executive function. A program-specific feedback on mid-sem and end-sem is […]
