A compendium to save and dovetail it with IDP if you so consider.
☄️ AI is not a bubble but a growth engine, and perhaps the biggest disruptor ever. Therefore, know what would it take us to make our students AI literate and proficient to become better employable and better entrepreneurs. Conducting national/international conferences on AI for students or setting up a Centre of Excellence for the sake […]
Who is your University Compliance Officer ?
Receiving regulations, notification from the State Education Councils, UGC and host of other regulatory bodies, accreditation and ranking, AISHE etc.? Often these communications are addressed to the VCs who assign these to the Registrars or Dir IQACs for compliance. Sometimes, VCs are at loss to understand who would be the right person. A pushover Registrar […]
State, State Private and Central Universities’ Technical programs don’t require AICTE annual e-Approval ?
Background AICTE is a standard setting and regulatory body like BCI, ICAR, NCTE, MCI but poor thing, can’t exercise control over its technical programs being run in universities. It must be feeling the pain of having been deprived of the power by the Hon’ble Supreme Court since 2001. While other regulatory bodies enjoy sending their […]
Wonder why NAAC has assigned Function of collection and analysis of Students Feedback to IQAC ?
IQAC Functions clause (d) provides -“Collection and analysis of feedback from all stakeholders on quality-related institutional processes”. Well in my opinion, Feedback on curriculum, syllabus and teaching-learning (an academic quality related process) should be kept out of IQAC preview. Obtaining Students Feedback is an academic executive function. A program-specific feedback on mid-sem and end-sem is […]
NAAC, NIRF and HEIs Role in Creating jobs for the Students
Jobs are few in the market but students graduating are far too many and mounting. The fissure is almost scary. The government, education regulators, accrediting n’ ranking bodies as also the HEIs must rise quickly to fix it. One of the patent solutions lies in the HEIs building capacity in Entrepreneurship and enable Startups with […]
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 […]
