Hard times: Are you by the side of your students?

I share with you today, an empowering role of a ‘teacher’- a mentor, a rock-solid pillar of support, and a big-time inspirer! Hey! where are you fitting in ? The final-year batch is graduating but placements scenario is heart-breaking. Hope, in these hard times, you are standing by the side of your students and NOT […]
Industry expert talks on emerging technologies, a sheer waste of time and money for HEIs

HEIs hold online/offline talks for the awareness but your faculty n’ students instead need hands-on with these technologies. A talk however powerful on AI, AR, ML, Blockchain and Data Analytics etc. is bound to fail in engaging students. It might still work to a degree with your faculty, but surely not with your students. Students […]
ENHANCE YOUR PAPER CITATIONS, h-Index AND RESEARCH PROFILE

We are aware that institutes need research, require more citations and high h-index for credibility and also for the specific purpose of performing at the top in NAAC and NIRF and as much, you too aspire to build your own research credentials in a big way. To your complete ease, we put forward, how these […]
MAKING OF A SUCCESSFUL RESEARCHER

If a powerful thought of doing research in the area of your deep interest has crossed your mind often, the chances are that you are at the cusp of turning into a successful researcher. All you need to do is to rejig your research curiosity into a committed head-start. A half-hearted weak attempt only to […]
Make LMS your Most Powerful Online Teaching Tool

1. It is now well-established that one of the most dominant methods in teaching is through the LMS. If you wish to be a teacher of today, and more importantly tomorrow, make LMS your prime driver and leverage its huge veracity. Here is a run-down on how to get max out of your LMS: Step-1 […]
What New Education Policy has in the offing for you as Faculty?

I see the following refreshing change in the faculty professional lives 🙂 a) a definitely more competitive environment due to 100 top foreign institutes moving in. It would afford opportunities to the bright faculty to switch to the much greener pastures 🙂 b) self-skilling and up-skilling would be essential to teach vocational courses, hereinafter essential […]
NAAC Challenges for Health Sciences Colleges

1. You don’t have an option to opt out, unlike other non health sciences colleges. You also have 65:35 Online: Peer team weightage. Besides, you have Part-A (900 marks) and discipline specific Part-B(100 marks). It is unique and challenging. 2. Nearly 90 % health sciences institutes are bound to struggle in meeting the following quantitative […]
5 Useful hints on how to prepare your PPT for the visiting Peer team

Hint-1 As a Head of Institute, prepare around 40 slides PPT for 40+5 minutes and as Dir IQAC 15 slides (15 minutes) and as Dean/HOD 20 slides (20 minutes) at best. Spoken briefing in library, labs etc. be also prepared with supporting evidences/charts/boards/videos as applicable. Hint-2 Preferably 7 lines in each slide and each line […]
Never ignore your students if aiming to score high on the NAAC administered Survey

1. Don’t forget to brief your students what NAAC means to institute, and how it would benefit students now, and later in their career. Choose a right time, suitable platform and a credible and trusted motivator. Articulate how a top NAAC grade will make them walk with heads high and how their proud Alma Mater […]
NBA ACCREDITATION DEADLINE DRAWING DANGEROUSLY CLOSE

AICTE made it mandatory for technical institutes such as Engineering, Management, Pharmacy etc. by publishing it in “Approval Process Handbook 2018-19” (a legal document) to have their 60% programs NBA accredited in next 4 years. It reiterated its resolve in the Handbook 2020-21 and warned that institutes failing to do so shall not be accorded […]