Visionary Vice Chancellors and Principals build culture ; not just drive academic compliances to meet institute’s core purpose
You want to be a trailblazer, a run-away institution builder ? Build culture in your college or university. I’m sure the Founders of your institute also want you to do so. Nothing can drive institute’s personnel and environment better than its well-embedded work culture. Culture builds class which is permanent. It leads accomplishments with a […]
Turn to Academic Quality and be “Better than the Most”
Two and quarter years ago, in one workshop on quality in a university, I was asked, how would I define ‘quality’. I said, I wasn’t some philosopher, but I can try answering you from my experience. I feel that if you are able to deliver a product a service or personal conduct better than the […]
Know how a Registrar should discharge her/his statutory functions
🎯Registrars should keep their institutes’ statutes and ordinances regularly reviewed and updated. For example, first ordinance written at the time of an establishment of a university might have had just a few schools, departments and admin units. Now that the university has grown into many schools/departments/campuses/interdisciplinary academic units or have started OD/Online programs, it is […]
We often ignore performance of other officers of the university who are so important cornerstones of institutes’ foundation
In our crusade to improve faculty outcomes, we rarely run into any dialogue or plan a serious endeavour to develop some very important officers of the University like, VCs, Pro VCs, Registrars, CFOs, IT Heads, COEs, Heads of Innovation, Directors of Career Division, Dean (A), Dean (R&D), Sports Officer, Librarian, Dean Student- Affairs and Dean […]
Research Hesitant Faculty
He can even cite a devil who told him not to venture into research; take a refuge behind some horrible idea that ‘research was not everybody’s cup of tea, and that only the research minds should do research and others just teach or take a sadistic pleasure of institutes getting caught milling papers driven by […]
Following National Standards is NOT optional – it’s a MUST
Can’t imagine some institute not following National Standards Is your knowledge on NHEQF, NSQF, NCrF, NCCF, NCVET and the role of Standards setting n’ Sector Skill Councils only surface deep? What’s their core purpose ? How to map curriculum and courses with the set national standards to ensure that your degrees and diplomas stay valid […]
Essential Research Infrastructure for Universities
*Looking at the direction to which the next NAAC manual is heading, and even otherwise a compelling need to boost research, I recommend that every multidisciplinary university should at least subscribe to the following basic research needs:- 1. Core Databases (University-wide) (a) Scopus │ Web of Science │ Turnitin (Plagiarism Check) (b) INFLIBNET / e-Shodh […]
Board of Studies (BOS): A bullet train to academic destination
Last week, a wonderful university invited me to interact with their middle and higher level leadership and listen to them. I loved this idea of their Pro Chancellor. The young Pro Chancellor with a thinking- head further said that I should listen to them much as Dr listens to a patient, arrives at the diagnosis, […]
Whom does NAAC benefit? A case for the struggling private colleges
If you read the objective of NAAC it talks of (a) quality assurance (b) quality promotion. Does it deliver on “quality promotion” ? Perhaps, NOT for the struggling low quality private colleges. The input of poor performance is not captured and no government funding institution comes for the needed help to uplift the standard. Private […]
NAAC and a story of successive distortions
3-year ago, NAAC had kept benchmarks on various metrics under the hood. Only a fistful institutions made it to the NAAC A++ HEIs. Meanwhile, a number of applying HEIs started figuring out grade related benchmarks from the available data of accredited HEIs on their respective websites. A few started colluding with the staff, peer teams […]
