Academics

Most of the faculties of this institution are involved in active research work. Since project work has been incorporated in the syllabi of Final Degree Honours and P.G. Programmes each faculty is guiding their students in pursuing their research work. Besides, with the financial assistance of UGC, NCERT and ICSSR at present 12 teachers have undertaken major and minor research projects. During the last couple of years a sizeable number of faculty members have been awarded the Ph.D. degree. A good number of teachers of this institution are also guiding some research scholars for the award of Ph.D. in varied disciplines.

            Besides the research activities, this institution has been engaged in a number of extension activities. The broad areas of such activities are NSS, NCC, Youth Red Cross and Rovers & Rangers manned by dedicated teachers of this college. Student volunteers under the banner of such schemes render valuable and need based social service activities during different festive occasions and socio-cultural congregations besides normal social services.

The college like certain other autonomous colleges in the state maintains a well-defined and transparent mode of selecting students for admission to the various courses of study through common entrance test which comprehensibly examine the students giving due weightage to their previous academic record apart from assessing their performance in the CET. Many of the departments are understaffed. Posts consequent on retirement have not been filled up as a matter probably of state policy. Though the levels of inputs are not always viable, the members of the teaching faculty have been pursuing their teaching with commitment for completion of the courses within the stipulated period of time specified in the academic calendar by engaging extra classes beyond the number of classes allotted in the timetable. For the faculty members sincerely feel the necessity for translating the vision of the founders of this college of contributing to the human resource and socio-economic development of the region and the state. The faculties constitute a sizable number of members who have been recipient of important distinctions in their fields and their overall participation in seminars, conferences in the nation and abroad have been fairly commendable. The number of teaching days in the college last year was over 200 working days. All the departments conduct seminars fortnightly inviting eminent academicians, cultural icons and men having literary achievement of both national and international repute. Though by large, instruction has been imparted by means of direct classroom interactions, efforts are indeed made to adopt innovative teaching methodologies in the classroom. In several Honours and P.G classes’ audio-visual mode of instruction is also made available to the students. The teaching staff is well aware of UGC’s latest emphasis on the conventional and the open system of imparting instruction and bringing both the streams together. Hence teachers try to offer the more flexible patterns for study and also incorporate the multimedia packages of instruction.   Teaching in general has been found to incorporate the latest subject trends and critical approach. An important feature of the teaching situation in this college is that the self-appraisal method of evaluation has been put into operation. This, combined with student appraisal of teachers, for which a judicious Performa needs to be carefully evolved, will yield place to a system of check and balance in the academic audit. Certain departments have been practising team teaching to enable the students to gain from a plurality of perspectives made available to him in the same class.

            The college follows the conventional examination and evaluation system. It has been the practice that examinations are held as per schedule and results are published without undue delay. The evaluation mode followed by the college is central valuation by both external and internal examiners in the case of undergraduate courses and external and internal evaluation for postgraduate programmes. At the post-graduate level a better alternative is to subject every script to one external and one internal evaluation. This is a more universally adopted practice in colleges of Indian Universities. In order to make the mechanism transparent and fair revaluation should be made available.

            This institution achieves its mission of providing higher education to the younger population not only of this State but of other States also. Students not only receive information regarding the admission procedure and the Elective and Honours options available to them from the annually published prospectus but become benefited from the counselling provided to them by the staff of the institution and other agencies like Dist. Employment Exchange, Xavier Institute of Management etc. in choosing their career-oriented programmes. A student information centre is also in operation from time to time counselling in academic and personal fields. Besides, proctors also meet a small group of students in time intervals to solve the personal and academic problems.

            To encourage students and to create a healthy study atmosphere, incentives in the form of scholarships are given to meritorious and deserving students. About 20% of the student population receives various scholarships like National Scholarship, Merits Scholarship, Merit-cum-Means Scholarship, Sports Scholarship etc. That apart there is also provision for free studentship for poor and meritorious students besides facilities for financial assistance from the Students’ Aid Fund.

            The Alumni Association of this institution meets bimonthly. Many alumni are placed in high positions in the country and abroad in all walks of life, like Judiciary, Legal professions, Education, Medicines and Administrations etc.

            In recreation and leisure time the students refresh their mind in engaging themselves in various indoor and outdoor games provided by the Common Room Association of this college. This Association along with the Dramatic Association and Athletic Association provides recreational benefit to students by organising cultural, dramatic, musical functions of different varieties along with sports and athletic events.

Research and Extension

Most of the faculties of this institution are involved in active research work. Since project work has been incorporated in the syllabi of Final Degree Honours and P.G. Programmes each faculty is guiding their students in pursuing their research work. Besides, with the financial assistance of UGC, NCERT and ICSSR at present 12 teachers have undertaken major and minor research projects. During the last couple of years a sizeable number of faculty members have been awarded the Ph.D. degree. A good number of teachers of this institution are also guiding some research scholars for the award of Ph.D. in varied disciplines.

            Besides the research activities, this institution has been engaged in a number of extension activities. The broad areas of such activities are NSS, NCC, Youth Red Cross and Rovers & Rangers manned by dedicated teachers of this college. Student volunteers under the banner of such schemes render valuable and need based social service activities during different festive occasions and socio-cultural congregations besides normal social services.