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out-of-the-box, and offer scope to exhibit their creativity.
2.3.13
Does the university consider student projects mandatory in the
learning programme? If yes, for how many programmes have they been
(percentage of total) made mandatory?
As a part of the curriculum, both the under graduate as well as post
graduate students are expected to carry out (major) project work during their
final semester of study. This is a mandatory criterion for the award of the
respective degrees. Apart from this several programmes have credits allotted
for minor projects, during the course of their study. As mentioned earlier,
research / innovative projects are also taken up by the students under the PBL
and RBL mode of study.
2.3.14
Does the university have a well qualified pool of human resource to
meet the requirements of the curriculum? If there is a shortfall, how is it
supplemented?
The University recruits the required number of qualified faculty members so
as to meet the requirements of the curriculum. More than 90% of the faculty
members have Master’s, M.Phil or Ph.D degree. Faculty members with either
Master’s / M.Phil degrees are encouraged to enroll for Ph.D, either within the
institution or elsewhere. The University strongly encourages the involvement
of the faculty in research activities. This gives ample opportunity for self
development of the faculty members so as to meet the growing demands when
the curriculum is updated. In addition, the schools organize various
workshops and conferences inviting resource persons from within the
University and also from other renowned institutions. Such lectures facilitate
the faculty members to gain and update their knowledge. Information on the
number of such conferences, seminars and also the workshops are given under
the ‘Evaluative Report of the Schools’.
2.3.15 How are the faculty enabled to prepare computer-aided teaching/
learning materials? What are the facilities available in the university for
such efforts?
Every faculty member is encouraged to prepare his/her lectures as power point
slides. In a few courses, where this cannot be effectively implemented (for
example, Mathematics), the lecture notes are converted into electronic format
by the facility provided by the University and it is then uploaded into the
academic login page. Also, the Academic Staff College has initiated to
organize workshops for preparing voice enabled power slides, which might be
more convenient to the students compared to learning from the normal slides
(without audio). There is also a provision for video taping the lectures by
eminent scientists, so that they are made available to the students. Also some
of the lectures (for example research methodology) are recorded and are
accessible to students.
2.3.16
Does the university have a mechanism for the evaluation
of teachers by the students / alumni? If yes, how is the evaluation
feedback used to improve the quality of the teaching-learning process?
Feedback on the faculty handling the courses is obtained from the students
concerned at the end of every semester. The teachers are evaluated against