Hyderabad: The All India Council for Technical Education has asked its recognised institutes to share their best academic practices, and has come up with some heartening results.
BVRIT Hyderabad College of Engineering for Women said it had developed an assistive technology lab to encourage students to develop aids for the visually challenged, speech and hearing impaired, the differently abled and autism students.
BVRIT Principal Dr K.V.N. Sunitha said it had developed an incubation centre to train students and encourage them to establish start-ups. It had set up engineering clinics to train students in day-to-day activities such as mobile testing and repair, servicing of fans and tubelights and laptops.
Chaitanya Post Graduate College is taking student feedback reports on the quality of teaching that are scrutinised by the principal. The institute is providing in-house communication skills and personality development programmes by in-house trainers for five days (30 hours) for all the degree and postgraduate outgoing batches.
This is an attempt by AICTE to showcase best practices being followed by institutes. The institutions were asked to fill up an online questionnaire.
Lauding the initiative, Prof. G.V.K. Reddy, a technical education expert. told this correspondent, “Such initiatives help the institution, provided they are adopted with the same spirit and commitment. Not every best practice works for every institute. One has to adopt those practices that suit the students, faculty and local environment. The practices should complement the teaching-learning process and enhance employability of the students.”
Dr Srini Bhupalam, president, All India Federation of Self-Financing Technical Institutes. said, “I like this initiative of the AICTE to compile the best practices implemented in various intuitions. The objective is to list and record the best ideas among all the ideas that an institute implemented year after year that yielded or contributed to the ultimate success of the students.”
He further added, “In achieving that goal, the best practices that prove to be effective in motivating the workforce of teaching and non-teaching staff and students are compiled into a single document by the AICTE for the sake of all the institutions. I recommend all the managements, principals and staff to look into it for implementation in their institutes for the success of the students.”
