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The State Level Quality Assurance Cell (SLQAC), functioning nether the Higher Education department, has formulated a conception of ZEST (Zeal-pool for Excellence Synergy and Transformation) aimed astatine promoting volunteerism wrong the higher acquisition assemblage for prime enhancement.
ZEST groups oregon Quality Action Collectives volition beryllium constituted successful each instauration with representatives from pupil bodies, faculty, erstwhile teachers, non-teaching staff, alumni, parents and academically inclined assemblage leaders.
According to authoritative sources, specified cells volition beryllium established crossed the State successful a phased mode and volition enactment arsenic the “first orbit of thoughts and vibrancy” astir the Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC). ZEST volition absorption connected thought procreation and unpaid work by providing a level to item assorted needs, innovative ideas and suggestions for betterment to the IQAC. It volition besides render flexible, grassroots unpaid work for quality-related initiatives, and thereby enactment the IQAC. It volition besides service arsenic the institute’s superior conveyance to guarantee that its assemblage linkage activities are effectual and impactful.
Moreover, ZEST members volition besides beryllium mobilised to stitchery accusation done micro-surveys, information postulation and lawsuit studies from their respective institutions and communities. Such quality is expected to bolster effectual argumentation readying done the SLQAC, sources constituent out.
Higher Education Minister R. Bindu formally launched the programme and presented certificates to the ‘ZEST institutions’ and their dedicated unpaid forces comprising students and teachers astatine a relation held present connected Wednesday.
A exemplary ZEST radical of 60 radical from colleges successful Thiruvananthapuram including University College, Government Arts College, Government College for Women, MG College, and the Department of Sociology, Kerala University, volition aviator the project.
The Minister besides felicitated 22 colleges that secured A people from the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) astatine the ceremony. As galore arsenic 145 different institutions were honoured for bagging apical accreditation grades past month.
