CBSE SQAA Consultancy
SQAA Consultancy & Facilitation Service
CBSE – SQAA – School Quality Assessment & Accreditation
CBSE School Quality Assessment and Accreditation
- The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has decided to assess schools through standardized instruments and process of internal (self evaluation) and external assessment (peer review), which will encourage sustained qualitative enhancement.
- Assessment to be conducted in the areas of Scholastic Processes and Outcomes, Co-Scholastic Processes and Outcomes, Infrastructure (adequacy, functionality and aesthetics), Human Resources, Management and Administration, Leadership and Beneficiary Satisfaction
- Accreditation, rather than involving ranking any institutions, will establish a level of acceptable quality for all accredited institutions while respecting the unique missions of the institutions involved.
- Effective schools understand that school improvement is a process, rather than an event. It begins with extensive documentation, gathering and validating data against evidence and rigorous self assessment resulting in School Improvement Plans.
- Who needs: Every CBSE Affiliated School
- Who Assess: As per SQAA Manual
- Compliance: Mandatory every 03 years
Why SQAA Consultancy from Team-NIC:
- Quality is inherently complex and there is no simple view of it.
- Team-NIC provides:
- FOCUSED approach to SUCCESS
- Advices from EXPERT having long experience and proven past in field
- Continuous improvement in measureable form
- Proactive preparation for Assessment and Accreditation
Consultants in Team-NIC have experience of delivering SQAA Workshops and FDP to more than 5000 teaching and non-teaching staff of schools in different states in India.
Experience of members of Team-NIC make them stand out in the consulting field. Multiple schools in India have been benefitted from our SQAA Workshops and Advisories.
Compliance and Improvement Consultancy
- SQAA/NAAC/AICTE/NBA/IAO/AAHE/Other Accreditation Assessment in any school or college/university/institution may come up with multiple deficiencies where Team-NIC acts as a Single Window for all Solutions.
- Mock Audit: Team-NIC provides IRCA Accredited, qualified, experienced, and professional auditors to conduct mock and certification audits for SQAA, ISO and many other Quality and Recognition Processes.
- Books Publishing: Team-NIC provides publishing services for books including content writing, editing, formatting, designing, ISSN/ISBN assignment, digital publishing (eBooks), Printing, Binding, and distribution services.
- Research Publishing: Team-NIC provides Research Publications services for publishing Research Journals and Conference Proceedings including eJournal Management System that is capable of automating ‘Call-for-Papers’, Manuscript-Submission, Reviewer Engagement, Review Comments Capturing, Editing, Volume Setup, and One-Click Publishing of eJournal. Our extended services include publishing and distribution of print Journals, Newsletters, Conference Proceedings, and Event Reports.
- Patent and IP Services: Team-NIC provides services for creation of patents by identification of innovations within your resources, converting innovations into inventions, writing technical descriptive documents, writing design documents, and developing designs into patentable systems. Team-NIC provides end-to-end services for filing the patents for identified inventions.
- International Collaborations and MoU: Team-NIC has been working as facilitation and Catalyst agent for International Collaborations, Affiliations, Accreditations, Recognitions, International Scholarships, Student-Exchange Programs, Faculty-Exchange Programs, Corporate Collaborations, MoU Signing with NGO’s and innovation Cells, establishing Centre for Excellence, formation of Boards/Committees with global participation, and other National and International Collaborations.
- Branding and Social Marketing: Team-NIC has been most recognized and appreciated for its Digital Branding Services that includes transformation of official website of the institution, Hosting Services with CDN, Search Engine Optimization, Press Releases, Press Conferences, Blog Management, Social Media Content Management, and all other aspects of brand management in digital and physical world.
- Teaching Evaluation & Surveys: Team-NIC has developed ready to float very effective Feedback Recording System for recording reviews from students, parents, alumni, staff, society, and other ‘interested’ and ‘affected’ parties.
- Quality Process Certifications: Team-NIC offers Capacity Building Facilitation, Consulting Services, Auditing, and Certification for creation and effective implementation of Quality Processes in the Organization that later would be extended to Quality Certifications viz. ISO 9001 (Quality Management), ISO 20001 (Service Management), ISO 27001 (Information Security), Lean Six Sigma, and others.
SQAA Consultancy & Capacity Building
Ace Your CBSE SQAA Assessment
Phase I – Self Assessment
Step I – Review
- Faculty Development Programs: Understanding SQAA Framework and NCF is utmost important for a CBSE aspirant/recognized school. FDP and Workshops can play vital role in this.
Process Facilitation: Team-NIC can further support in:
- Identify members for CLT (Core Learning Team)
- Detailed workshop for CLT
- Data consolidation and presentation support
Step II – Reflect
- Initial Gap Assessment: To start with, this is critical to identify the gap areas and opportunities of improvement on the expectations of SQAA Framework.
- Gap Prioritization: Subject Matter Experts can support in analysing the impacts of identified gaps and help in prioritization of gaps based on their risks, impacts, costs, efforts, and other parameters.
- Facilitation in Data Upload: Based on the needs of SQAA, experts can facilitation formatting of the data as per required templates and provide best possible visibility and value to the data while uploading the same to intended database. Uploading of correct data along with security of its modes of evidences is critical in any accreditation including SQAA.
Step III – Respond
- Remedial Recommendations: Once identified the gaps, most critical aspect is to have knowledge about different available solutions and selective the optimal one out of them. Experts can help you save on costs and efforts while choosing and implementation of best choices of solutions for your.
- Support in Action Monitoring: This is vital to have tracks and evidences of actions for any improvements. Experts can help in developing systems and procedures for long-term support in Action Monitoring.
- 6-Sigma (SMART) Approach Implementation: SQAA recommends implementation of SMART Objectives for improvements in Quality of Education Procedures in Schools. Our 6-Sigma Experts provide all required details about this and provide active support.
- Periodic Reviews and Reporting: This is critical to reassess and review the compliances towards expectations of SQAA Framework. Periodic and regular engagements of Experts can keep eye on new noncompliances and give timely support.
- Best Practices and Quality Processes: Industrial Best Practices for better Quality of Education and additional recognitions like IS09000, ISO20000, Information Security Standards (ISO27001), etc play important roles. Regular support of subject matter experts provide your true returns of investments.
Step IV – Rate
- Continuous Improvement: Experts can help in maintaining continuous improvement cycles with appropriate Audit Trails and measurable quality-improvements
- Continuous Review & Reporting: Continuous re-assessment, reviews, and re-evaluations of effectiveness of improvement efforts, results, go-ahead plans, and gaps helps the school to keep growing on its objectives of imparting quality education.
- SQAAF: Scoring yourself “CORRECTLY” on SQAAF for submitting self-assessment to CBSE is critical for accreditation. Experts can help avoiding errors and saving iterations of corrections or risks of wrong information.
Phase II – External Evaluation
Step V – Peer Assessor Visit
- Pre-Assessment FDP: This is critical to understand the expectations and correct meaning of queries of the assessor, or the auditee can loose the opportunity to satisfy a requirement in spite of availability of all records and evidences. Pre-Assessment FDP prepares the auditees about understanding of clause-wise expectations of direct and indirect evidences as well as affirmations.
- Assessment Friendly Environment: Experts can help in creation of the environment where access to required records is handy to both auditees as well as auditors that makes the audit a smooth and enjoyable activity and hereby adds values to recognition of the school.
- Support in ‘Naturally’ evident ‘Strength’ ‘Visibility’: Assessment is an opportunity to appraise you strengths, weakness, threats, and opportunities. A Natural Visibility added to strengths adds values to the recognition of the school.
- Support in Assessment Planning: Experts can help in making required prior arrangements for assessment to keep it smooth and avoid last minute runs and stresses for any records or logistics.
Step Onwards
- Continuous Support in maintaining ‘Presence’ towards SQAA
- Support in getting benchmarks and capacity building
- Establishing Centre of Excellence
- Support in creating knowledge stores for spreading continuous awareness about SQAA-frameworks and providing supports to neighbouring schools.
Other Umbrella Services of Immediate Importance
- Identification and Facilitation for filling the Security Gaps in School Infrastructure and Operations (ISO27001)
- Identification and Facilitation for covering the Points of Energy Waste and preserve environment
(ISO14001 and ISO50001) - Total Quality Improvement for Services and Satisfaction of Students, Parents, Staff, Society, and other parties (IS09001 and ISO20001)
- Overall Brand Improvement through periodic Press Releases, Blog Writing, Search Engine Optimization of eContent, Updates on Events & Awards, and other ways.
- Periodic enrichment of Programs, Libraries, IT, and other infrastructure with OpenSource, FreeSource, Shareware, and Affordable Systems.
- Periodic Audits for compliance to Regulatory, Statuary, Quality Standards, and other requirements.
