PART B

CRITERION I
CURRICULAR ASPECTS

Curriculum design and development

The college offers 33 programmes of which seven are at Intermediate level, 22 at undergraduate level and four at Post graduate level.

New courses introduced in the year 2008-09:

Undergraduate Courses:

B.Com- E-Commerce is introduced from the academic year 2008-09 as a need-based academic program. This course replaced the B.Com-Professional course. The new course is planned to prepare the undergraduate students for global competence. The needs of the students were taken into consideration in planning and starting this course. B.Com. E-Commerce Syllabus is prepared in consultation with expert members by the faculty of Commerce.

Certificate courses:

An Interdisciplinary certificate course in Intellectual Property Rights was started from the academic year2008-09 for the final year undergraduate students.
Certificate Course in Tally was introduced for commerce students.
Bridge course on MS-Office is implemented for B.Sc students. Bridge course on Basic Java Concept was introduced for B.Com [E-Commerce].

Restructuring of curriculum design:
Group projects in mathematics for B.Sc.  Final year students are introduced from 2008-09.

Feedback on curriculum

The Board of Studies of various subjects meets every year to review the syllabus and redesign it if necessary. Meetings of various Boards of Studies were held during the months of March and April 2008. Besides, feedback from the outgoing students also is obtained by informal interaction with them by the faculty.

Curriculum update:

Use of “Mathematica” software in practical work for all UG students of Mathematics is introduced as an innovative designing of the curriculum update by the department of Mathematics.

Practical assignments in Statistics using the software Minitab, Tora, MS-Excel have been introduced for all U.G students of Statistics.

Syllabus of JAVA Programming for B.Sc III Year is revised.  CD’s on various topics are demonstrated to the students by the faculty of Computer Science to improve the programming skills of the students. Lecturers’ notes and assignments are made available electronically for the students.

New Practical experiments were introduced in Physics, namely, Study of Oscillations of a mass under Combination of springs and Observation of Lissajous figures with CRO for B.Sc I year students and Aberrations of a Convex Lens [Spherical aberrations and Chromatic aberration] for B.Sc II year students and Optical Fiber ,  Solar Cell ,                       
Hysteresis Curve, and Half adder and Full adder digital Circuit for B.Sc III year students.
Manuals in English and Telugu for all the practical papers are prepared by the faculty for the benefit of students.

Syllabus of Economics is revised keeping the mission of the college in consideration.. Development and Environmental Economics as paper-V in Semester-V, Economics of gender & Development as Paper-VII in Semester –VI were introduced.

Business English is offered for B.Com (E-Commerce) Students. They are taught Business correspondence, Quotations, Tenders, Report writing, Minutes of the meeting, Interpretation of Data & Preparation of Agenda. For Communicative English, ten computers with software from Young India Films “Tense Buster” is installed in the language.

Software from Young India Films “Tense Buster” is installed in ten computers at the Language Lab and is being used for teaching Communicative English.
Two new books, namely, Gadya- Sandesh and Katha Lok are introduced as text books for Hindi [Second Language] at undergraduate level.

Introduction of interdisciplinary courses:

B.Com E-Commerce has been introduced to equip the students with IT applications in Commerce with JAVA, HTML, JAVA SCRIPT and VB SCRIPT.

A Certificate Course in Intellectual Property Rights has been introduced from the academic year 2008-09 for all degree final year students. Mr. S.Mujib Kumar B.Sc, LLM (Gold medalist), (P.G Diploma in alternative Dispute Resolution NALSAR) P.G Diploma in IPQ (OU) Advocate, High Court of A.P was invited as resource person for this course.

Preparation of practical manuals:

Manuals for all the practical papers both in English and Telugu were prepared by the Faculty to have uniformity in the records and also to have a common procedure for doing the experiments in the lab.      

CRITERION II
TEACHING-LEARNING AND EVALUATION

Admission process and student profile:

Admissions in the undergraduate courses are strictly made on the basis of merit and the policy of inclusion is followed. Most of the students, however, are from the backward rural regions of the state. Sixty per cent of the total seats in all UG courses are allotted for them. Post graduate admissions are centrally made by the Osmania University.

Catering to diverse needs:

The college has offered 13 certificate courses during 2008-09 to cater the diverse needs of the students. These courses are aimed to train students in basics in the respective fields of interest. The details of the courses are given in Table I.

Table I – Details Of Certificate Courses Offered During 2008-09

Teaching-Learning Process

Teacher Quality:
Teaching staff has attended a number of orientation and refresher courses to update their knowledge in their respective subjects and multidisciplinary subjects. These details are furnished in Table II.

Table II -Details of Orientation/Refresher Courses Attended By the Faculty Members -2008-09

Evaluation Process and Reforms:

The Examination Branch conducts Semester Examination of I, III & V Semesters in October/November of every year and II, IV & VI in the months of March/April Backlog Examinations for the outgoing students are conducted twice, in a year. Practical Examination is conducted annually by internal and external Examiners selected from the Panel.

Transparency is maintained in the process of evaluation. The system of Internal Assessment, with a weightage of 20 per cent marks per semester is continued even this year.  Paper setting and valuation is done by external staff for the Semester examination and the weightage is 80% per Semester. The Examiners are selected from the panel which is approved by the Board of studies members. The results are completely processed by the staff of the Examination Branch of the college. Absolute confidentiality is maintained through out the process of Examination. All the necessary arrangements for the smooth conduct of exams were made by the Examination Branch. External squad members were recruited to maintain the objectivity in the process of examination.
The results are processed using visual FoxPro software and presented for approval to the Results Committee comprising of Controller, Additional Controller of Examinations, Osmania University, Honorary Secretary, Director, Principal, Vice Principal and Heads of Departments of various subjects. Results are displayed for the students after the committee’s approval.

Best Practices In Teaching-Learning And Evaluation

In case of deaf and dumb students special consideration is given in some subjects and scribes are provided for the visually and physically challenged students.
External squad members were recruited to maintain the objectivity in the process of examination. Transparency is maintained in the process of evaluation.
Remedial classes are arranged for the slow learners and tutorials also are started  for the benefit of the students.

CRITERION III
RESEARCH, CONSULTANCY AND EXTENSION

Promotion of research

Two members have availed financial assistance from the U.G.C. under F.I.P. grant for doctoral research given by the U.G.C.-SERO, Hyderabad.
U.G.C., New Delhi, has granted financial assistance for a Major Research Project entitled “The Process of Marital Disharmony-A Socio-Legal Study” to Dr.M.V.Lakshmi Devi, Reader, Department of Sociology. Total outlay of this project is Rs.4.5 Lakhs.
Dr.Renuka , Faculty, Department of Business Administration, is having an Ongoing UGC- Minor Research Project entitled “Core Banking Outlay Vs Outcome”. Total outlay of this project is Rs.1 lakh.
Besides, many members of the teaching faculty are pursuing pre-doctoral and doctoral research individually without any financial grants.

Research and publication output

The faculty have participated and presented research papers in international, national and state-level conferences and seminars. The details are furnished below in Table III.

Table III -A–Details Of Participation In Seminars By The Teaching Faculty 2008-09

Organizing seminars and workshops:
Many departments have organized regional level seminars and workshops dring 2008-09. These details are furnished herewith.

Table III-B - SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS ORGANISED BY THE COLLEGE:

Consultancy:

Dr. K Vidyavathy, Reader, Department of Telugu, is recognized as Research Guide for Ph.D.[Telugu] by the Osmania University. Presently, six candidates are pursuing Ph.D under her guidance.

Dr. M.V.Lakshmi Devi, Reader, Department of Sociology is a recognized supervisor for M.Phil[Sociology] of Madurai Kamaraj University. Presently, two candidates are pursuing M.Phil under her guidance. She was also a Resource Person [Sociology] for preparation of Audio-Video lessons for AVPRC, Dr. B.R.Ambedkar Open University, Hyderabad.

Dr. Ruma Rao, Reader, Department of Commerce, is a consultant to Management and Marketing Research and Consultants [MMRC] concerned with Banking and Commerce.
Many of the faculty members are nominated as Members of the Board of Studies and appointed as Examiners in their respective subjects by other autonomous colleges and also Osmania University, Hyderabad.

Extension activities:

Staff and students participated in community service activities including awareness creation and community mobilization programmes.

Collaborations:
College is making an attempt to get collaborations for research promotion.

Best practices in research, consultancy and extension:
Seed Money for pursuing doctoral research is provided to selected unaided teaching faculty by the college Management. 

CRITERION IV
INFRASTRUCTURE AND LEARNING RESOURCES

Physical facilities:

Campus of the college is centrally located comprising 3.5 acres land and six buildings. There are 47 class rooms, 29 science laboratories and 13 staff rooms. All class rooms are well-furnished and have good ventilation. The college has an Audio-Visual Room, English Language Lab, Commerce Lab, Health Centre, Gym and a spacious Auditorium.
Third floor of the P.G. Block is constructed during 2008-09. Mrs.Neena Savithri Devi. Kaila was an alumnus of the college, and on her behalf her sons Mr. K.Vinod Kumar and Mr. K.Promod Kumar donated funds for the construction of third floor of P.G. Block.

Unit Cost of Education:
The unit cost of education is Rs. 6,975/.         

Maintenance of infrastructure
Measures are taken to maintain the infrastructure on regular basis.

Library as a learning resource

The college library has three wings- namely, degree library, M.B.A. Library and post-graduation library. The degree and post-graduate libraries are computerized. Stock verification, issuing of books and other activities are computerized. Barcode scanner is used regularly.
The library continues to be connected with Osmania University Library for inter-library borrowing.
Student book ration for each subject at undergraduate library is 1: 25; at M.B.A. library this ratio is 1:5 and for M.Sc courses the student book ration is 1:5.
Total outlay for enriching the Degree Library during 2008-09 is Rs. 3, 28,216/, and for Post Graduate Library, Rs. 86,573/.
Library has open access system, which is very useful to the students and the staff. It is updated each year by purchasing new books and subscribing journals and periodicals.

ICT as a learning resource

Computers with Internet are provided to the students free of cost at the degree library. Time –table is structurally modified to facilitate the library /internet usage by the students. Assignments which require internet usage are given to the fast learners. These assignments are discussed in the class seminars for the benefit of all students.

Other facilities

The cooperative consumer society continues to be run by the staff of the department of Commerce.  Note books and record books of all science subjects with the name of college printed   on the cover page are available in the stores along with other items.

The canteen continues to provide nutritious and tasty eatables at reasonable rates. It is run by an outside agency.

College Gym is quipped with treadmills, cycles, AB exercisers, twisters and stoppers. It is widely used by both the students and staff.

The Health centre that is established in the college is highly beneficial to the students, staff and resident-scholars. The services of the doctor and also the hospital with which the college has an MOU are utilized by all the needy in the college.

Sports:
Annual Sports day for undergraduate students were organized on 13th February 2008 and for post graduate students on 31st January 2008. Coaching arranged to the Students in Chess, volleyball & Table Tennis.

Performance of Students in Sports Activities:

CRITERION V
STUDENT SUPPORT AND PROGRESSION

Student progression

The scholastic achievement of the students is satisfactory during 2008-09. Most of the undergraduate students appeared for entrance examination to pursue post –graduation were successful.
Details of the results of undergraduate programmes are given below.

Table VI.  B.SC, B.A &  B.COM PART-II RESULT ANALYSIS
APRIL 2009

Many students are selected for jobs at campus placements. During 2008-09, 85 students out of the total students who attended campus placements were selected by companies like Infosys, Satyam. 

Student support:

Many students, both undergraduate and postgraduate students, received scholarships form the State Governments in the form of B.C., S.C., E.B.C., and S.T. scholarships and other financial aid and incentives. These details are given in Table VII.

Table VII –Scholarships and Other Financial Aid To The Students [2008-09]

Many students received the merit scholarships and gold medals instituted in the college through donations form philanthropists.

Student activities:
Students participate in academic and cultural activities conducted by the college and outside organizations. Details of prizes won by the students are mentioned in Table VIII.

Table VIII- Students’ Achievements

Best practices in student support and progression:

College has adopted new best practices during 2008-09 besides continuing the practices already in practice.

Tutorials are introduced in Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry for all students of B.Sc.
Remedial classes are arranged for the slow learners. A feedback on these remedial classes also obtained from the beneficiaries of remedial classes. Achievers in sports received cash prizes as a token of appreciation.

The Management instituted an incentive by way of reimbursement of tuition fees for toppers in undergraduate [Arts, Science and Commerce] courses with an aim to appreciate and encourage academically talented students. Three students were benefited by this during 2008-09.

The students’ feedback is obtained this year also. Various issues identified by the students in this feedback are carefully analyzed and appropriate measures are being taken.

The grievances of the students are also attended through the suggestion boxes kept at various places in the college. A record of action taken in this regard is maintained as a ‘grievance register’.

The Placement Cell enhanced the activities this year. Several companies interviewed our students and several of them got placement. 

CRITERION VI
GOVERNANCE AND LEADERSHIP

Institutional vision and leadership

The vision of the college is to be “a quality educational institution in the region by enhancing, inspiring and empowering women specially those hailing from rural areas” The college is striving hard to fulfill this vision under

Organizational arrangements

The college is well equipped with human resources. All the employees, both teaching and non-teaching are qualified. The ratio of teaching and non-teaching is 19:10.

Human resource management:
Finance management and resource mobilization:

Ten computers with Software from Young India Films Ltd are procured for the English Language Lab this year. Total cost incurred was Rs. 2, 32,000/, which is funded by the UGC.

CRITERION VII
INNOVATIVE PRACTICES

Internal quality assurance system

College has an active IQAC and QAC. Members of these two bodies are nominated from the internal senior faculty and outside expert members.

Stakeholder relationships

Alumni association:

Amounts have been instituted towards awards of Gold medals to the students securing highest marks in B.Com Vocational .Awards Scholarships to the Students of the Degree and Inter final year for securing highest marks have also been instituted.
An amount of Rs.1 Lakh was donated to the college for construction of a room to establish a Consumer Co-operative Stores of the college.
Dr.G.Sulochana extends medical help whenever necessary to the students from all social backgrounds with the assistance of Government and Private Hospitals.
Dr.Appaji Rao offers dental treatments with minimum charges to students if referred to by the Alumni Association.
Mrs.Vijaya Raman working in L.V.Prasad Eye Hospital helps the students medically and surgically if they are referred to by the Alumni Association.

Parent-teacher association:
Parent teacher meeting is an open platform where Parents of the students and teachers come in direct contact to discuss about the progress of the students. In the meeting the parents are given a handbook which contains complete information about the scheme of the examinations, rules and regulations and code of conduct to be followed by the students. Parents can interact with the lecturer concerned and can draw information regarding the study and progress of their child. They can also confide about the problems of the child to the teacher so that the teacher can counsel the child and have a follow up action .Occasionally; these issues are also discussed with The Grievance Redressal Cell for further action in the matter. The parents are also informed about the various Gold medals which were established by various eminent personalities. The parents and the students are also informed about various facilities that are available in the college such as: English lab, Library, Games Room, NCC and NSS. The parents are also requested to give their suggestions for the further development of the child and the college.

Future plans

The college has the following plans for the forthcoming academic year.

1. Starting an additional section of M.B.A. course.
2. Introduction of an interdisciplinary undergraduate course, namely Bachelor Course in Business Management and information technology with Management and   technology as core subjects.
3. Introduction of “computer skills “for all undergraduate courses [B.A., B.COM, and B.SC.]Where computer science is not one of the core subjects.
4. Arranging Intranet facility in all sections of the office to totally computerize the office work.
5. Organizing a National Seminar during 2009-10.

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PHOTO REPORT OF ACTIVITIES ORGANISED BY R.B.V.R.R.WOMEN’S COLLEGE [AUTONOMOUS]
NARAYANGUDA, HYDERABAD

   National Seminar Organized By the Department Of Business Management (left)     
Seminar on Spectroscopy Organized By the Department Of Chemistry(right)

Library Day Celebrations (left)                          Seminar organized by the Departmentof Mathematics

Seminar organized by the Department of English            Seminar on Yoga and Meditation

Parent – Teacher Interface