About Department of Quality and Compliance

In accordance with NAAC guidelines mandating the establishment of an Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) in all accredited institutions, the Department of Quality and Compliance was constituted shortly after the inception of the Bengaluru campus. Since its formation, under the mentorship of the Directors of Quality and Compliance at the Manipal Campus, the DQC has been actively engaged in quality assurance initiatives and has played a significant role in coordinating and contributing institutional data to the parent university during the NAAC accreditation process in 2022.

The Department of Quality and Compliance in Bengaluru has been working towards maintaining quality culture within its campus and has initiated certain new activities to promote quality culture by internalization of the UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) in all its ventures.

Quality assurance is a continuous, participatory, and systematic process that ensures academic excellence, institutional effectiveness, and stakeholder satisfaction. In line with the vision of Institutions of Eminence (IoE) to achieve global standards in teaching, research, innovation, and governance, the Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) serves as the central mechanism for planning, guiding, monitoring, and sustaining quality initiatives across the institution.

Department Vision and Mission

Vision

The Department of Quality and Compliance aims to assure and excel in quality for the overall progress of the Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE)

Mission

• Excel in all processes ensuring timely, efficient, and progressive performance of academic, administrative, and financial tasks
• Cultivate and enhance quality culture 
• Sensitize staff regarding quality improvement, organized method of documentation to maintain the University database and best practices 
• Execute realistic benchmarks in all academic and administrative activities
• Communicate key metrics and bench marking indicators

Objectives of IQAC 

• To implement quality standards in all procedures followed in the University
• Cultivate a culture to enhance the quality of the University
• To ensure timely and regular update of all required documents for all processes
• To execute realistic benchmarks for all academic and administrative activities of the University for constant improvement

Strategies of IQAC 

• Ensuring timely, efficient, and progressive performance of academic, administrative, and financial tasks
• Relevant and quality academic/ research programs through hands on experience to enhance the capacity of employability
• Equitable access to and affordability of academic programs for various sections of society
• Optimization and integration of modern methods of teaching and learning, research & library
• Digitalization of the assessment and evaluation process, which is also eco- friendly and simplifies the process right from uploading question paper to declaration of results has ensured its credibility
• Ensuring the adequacy, maintenance and proper allocation of support structure and services
• Sharing of research findings and networking with other institutions in India and abroad

Functions of IQAC

• Plan and prepare required data for periodic audit and assessments
• Coordinate and record all quality related activities with all departments and authenticate the same with supporting documents to ensure quality improvement
• Develop an organized method of documentation to maintain the University database
• Create awareness about the internal compliance committee cell among the academic and all administrative processes
• Conducting workshops/ seminars on quality related themes to sensitize the staff regarding quality improvement
• Compilation of feedback from stakeholders of all processes on quality related institutional pursuits
• Generate and submit reports as per the requirement of different regulatory bodies
• Planning and preparation of Annual Quality Assurance Report (AQAR)
  
   

Quality Policy

Manipal Academy of Higher Education aims to strengthen its unique value system through:

• Providing value-based higher education and healthcare services at par with International Standards;
• Promoting Research and collaborations;
• Meeting the societal objectives;
• Enhancing the proficiency of its students, staff and faculty to achieve global competency through training and development;
• Demonstrating continual quality improvement in all its academic, healthcare services and co-curricular activities through upgrading the delivery system, and sharing the best practices;
• Exceeding the expectations of the beneficiaries, stakeholders and regulatory bodies.

Environmental and Energy Policy

Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) endeavors to promote community welfare, environmental protection and efficient energy use to a level of performance that moves “beyond compliance”. Striving to set a benchmark on a National and International level for education, healthcare, environment and energy management, MAHE is committed to a cleaner and greener campuses. To realize this vision, the University commits to:

• Institutionalize best practices, comply with applicable laws, regulations and other recognized requirements related to environment and energy use and where practicable exceed them.
• Preventing pollution by continually monitoring and improving its environmental and energy performance by provision of resources to achieve set objectives and targets.
• Establish and maintain management systems to improve energy performance and to minimize harmful effects on environment, human health and safety.
• Promote use of clean, safe and energy efficient technologies in order to utilize natural resources efficiently.
• Encourage transparency and communication of its commitment to sustainable development, simultaneously increasing awareness amongst its stakeholders as well as the community at large.
• Foster education, research and information exchange on energy and environmental development to move toward global sustainability.