This book scrutinizes the challenges faced by IQACs in Bangladeshi universities, emphasizing the crucial role of quality education for societal progress. Ferdous identifies impediments like autonomy issues and inadequate infrastructure, offering key insights and recommendations to elevate the quality of higher education in the country.

In the continuously changing higher education landscape, ensuring quality and cultivating excellence are critical to institutional success and student progress. The formation of an Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) within academic institutions has emerged as a critical technique for raising educational standards, driving continuous improvement, and ensuring accountability. "The Role of IQAC in Academic Development: Strategies for Excellence" digs into IQAC's various duties, providing a detailed overview of its vital role in developing strong academic frameworks. This book is designed to serve as an essential resource for educators, administrators, and policymakers committed to elevating the quality of education in their institutions. It explores the foundational principles and best practices of IQAC, highlighting its role in strategic planning, curriculum development, faculty empowerment, and student engagement. This book not only underscores the importance of quality assurance but also provides actionable strategies to implement and sustain high standards from benchmarking performance. We request to the readers for this book to join with us on this journey to discover how IQAC can transform educational environments, enhance learning experiences, and ultimately contribute to the holistic development of students.

The internal quality assurance systems of Higher Education Institutions are Self-regulated responsibilities of the higher education institutions, aimed at Continuous improvement of quality and achieving academic excellence. Srinivas Institute of Management Studies (SIMS), being innovative higher education institution, has mechanisms for academic auditing and adopted quality management strategies in all academic and administrative aspects. The institution has an Internal Quality Assurance cell (IQAC) and adopts a participatory approach in managing its provisions. This paper contains the details of institutional Internal Quality Assurance Cell, the composition, the institutional policy with regard to quality assurance and how has it contributed in institutionalizing the quality assurance processes, contribution of management, external members, students and alumni etc., institutional integrated framework for Quality assurance of the academic and administrative activities, institutional training to its staff for effective implementation of the Quality assurance procedures, Academic Audit of the academic provisions the outcomes used to improve the institutional activities, and institutional mechanisms to continuously review the teaching learning process. The paper also analyse the advantages of Internal quality assurance cell in improving quality of higher education at Srinivas Institute of Management Studies.

CHALLENGES AND REFORMS IN HIGHER EDUCATION IN INDIA “Try to achieve what you like, otherwise you have to like what you achieved” Friends, what I feel that success is an art which needs an intense will to succeed, a lot of devotion a positive attitude and above all a firm determined constant effort in the right direction with proper strategy. I have kept all these things in my mind while editing this book. In this book, there is a collection of research and review articles by learned teachers. Henry Peter has very rightly said – “Education makes people to lead, but difficult to derive Easy to govern but impossible of enslave ………….” Education is the most powerful weapon which one can use to change the world. Keeping it in mind the various articles on Reforms in Higher Education in the Context of global challenges are presented in this edited book.

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This Book, Which Discusses The Issue Of Assessment And Accreditation In Three Leads-Policies, Prospects And Challenges, Will Provide The Basic Information On Eqa Process As Conceptualised And Practised In The Indian Context And Will Prove To Be A Useful Source Of Reference To Those Interested In Quality Education.