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Schedule of Programs for 2011-12
The National Policy of Education
(NPE) of 1986 stated: "Teachers will have multiple roles
to perform, teaching, research, development of learning resource
material, extension and managing the institution. futile and in
service training will be made mandatory for faculty members and
adequate training resources will be provided. Staff development
programmes will be integrated at the state and coordinated at
Regional and National levels".
It is to attend to these
priority areas of NPE- 1986 that 48 Academic Staff Colleges were
established in India during the seventh Five Year Plan. Initiated in
1987 in the University System in all earnestness and in spite of
financial constraints the ASCs have been working continuously with
growing popularity and increased enrolment. Today the ASCs have
matured into a vibrant institution due to the commitment of its
Directors, effective involvement of host universities and above all,
the eagerness and enthusiasm of d)e participating teachers. The
uniqueness of the scheme had been that it operates throughout the
year without any vacations as provided by the University system. The
UGC regularly monitors the Scheme with the help of institutional
self -evaluation by the Directors of the ASC and senior
functionaries of the UGC, NlEPA and subject experts.
The
main aim of ASC is to facilitate quality and relevance of Higher
Education through upgradation of knowledge and skills of teachers
working in the higher education system (teachers serving in College
and in the University departments). An added advantage of such a
system is that it serves as a platform for interaction and with
eminent resource persons, scholars from their respective disciplines
and other disciplines.
The ASCs conduct Orientation
Programmes (OP) and Refresher Courses (RC) regularly besides
seminars and workshops in different areas of higher education.
The UGC has now made it mandatory for teachers to attend one
Orientation Programme (OP) and two Refresher Courses (RC) for
promotion under the new Career Advancement Scheme (CAS) resulting in
increased enrolment of and greater responsibility for the ASC. The )
challenges before the ASC are many- issues of quality and relevance
of academic staff development programmes and their impact on the
individual teachers and institutions, ways and means of
strengthening the organisational structure of the ASC, development
of better infrastructural facilities and finally issues of effective
evaluation of the participants to ensure quality of the programme in
which a sizable amount of public money is involved .
The
UGC-Academic Staff College, Lucknow University was established in
1988 (in the first I phase of the scheme) and Prof. A.K. Srivastava;
from the Department of English and Modem European Languages, Lucknow
University was its founder full time Director. Dr. B.K.P.N. Singh
(Deptt. of Physics) was full time Director from 1993-1999, Prof.
V.D. Gupta (Deptt. of Physics), Prof. R.N. Singh (Deptt. of Physics)
have held Additional charge as Director Dr. D. Srivastava
(Deputy Director UGC-ASC) has been Incharge Director for 13 years
since its inception and Prof. Nishi Pandey, (Faculty Member,
Department of English and Modem European Languages, University of
Lucknow) was appointed Director of the ASC in January
2001. Prof. Padam Kant of the Department of Chemistry is the present
director.
The ASC works towards implementing the
policies of the UGC in accordance with the guidelines issued and the
programmes are aimed at achieving the objectives of the scheme as
innovatively as possible.
To ensure quality of the programme
and to build the image of the ASC the following activities have been
initiated:
(a) Greater interaction and collaborations with
various academic/research/scientific/cuItural institutes and
organisations of National and State level stature in the city to be
ensured. Resource will be drawn from amongst them also and
participants will be taken around on educational and study tours to
enable them to understand and study various professional and
organisational structures. Facilities extended by these institutes
will also be utilised ' to facilitate the training of the
participant teachers.
(b) Innovations in pedagogy is
envisaged. A more culture centric/specific pedagogy needs to be
created-explored - debated and tested. Projects related to this need
are proposed in the future. Opinions of participants/teachers
through specific questionnaires will be taken up and on the basis of
that research project prepared and financial help sought from
suitable funding agencies.
(c) Introducing teachers to the
more innovative pedagogical methods for classroom teaching like use
of Theatre in education, Internet as an educational tool to expand
classroom resources, organisation of other large participative
activities enhancing classroom learning - like quizzes, mind
teasers, performance oriented acts and study etc.
(d) It is
proposed to improve existing infrastructural facilities by seeking
financial assistance from the UGC and the State Govt. for building
of a new ASC complex on the existing land of the University.
Addition of more equipment and books for the library is proposed.
(e) Workshop/seminar/training programme for college
principals from the catchment area is being planned and ground work
is being done.
(f) Subject-wise need analysis of the
catchment area has been done in collaboration with the Deptt. of
Higher Education - Govt. of Uttar Pradesh. UGC-ASC Lucknow has been
entrusted the job to co-ordinate with the 5 State ASCs and draw up a
list for the Deptt. of Higher Education, so that a consolidated
programme for OPs and RCs, for 2001- 2002 and 2002-2003 could be
speedily drawn up and information sent to all the
Colleges/Universities of the State.
(g) ASC proposes to hold
a year round lecture series on various issues related to Higher
Education. This collaborative project will enable eminent experts,
educationists, social and cultural persons, art practitioners etc.
visiting local National/State level Institutes to deliver lectures
at the ASC on a regular basis at no extra cost. Teachers from local
Colleges, University and from nearby cities will be extended
invitations to attend.
(h) Every month a value based
discourse for University and Degree College teachers on relevant
issues in an interactive, informal format using Theatre, Devotional
music etc. to foster better interpersonal relations between teachers
to enable attitudinal changes to begin, has been launched from
December 2002.
(i) Publication of a Newsletter and Research
Papers submitted by participants is being edited and published in
special volumes.
Innovations by ASC
(i)
Courses are conducted in collaboration with various National level
Institutes/Organisations of the city, from where eminent resource
persons and facilities are drawn and utilised. Some of the
institutions are : Birbal Sahani Institute of Palaeobotany (BSIP),
National Botanical Research of Institute (NBRI), Central Drug and
Research Institute (CDRI), Industrial Toxicological Research Centre
(ITRC), Indian Institute of Management - Lucknow (11M), Geological
Survey of India (GSI), Central Institute for Medicinal and Aromatic
Plants (CIMAP), Sugarcane Institute, National Research Laboratory
for Conservation of Cultural Properties (NRLCC), Bhatkhande
University of Music , Rashtriya/Rajya Lalitkala Akademi, Bhartendu
Akademy of Dramatic Arts, Sangeet Natak Akademi - Govt. of U.P.,
Indian Council for Philosophical Research (ICPR), Literacy House,
Mahila Samakhya, State Institute for Rural Development (SIRD), State
Urdu Akademi, Hindi Sansthan, State' Urban Development Authority
(SUDA), Industrial Management Development of Uttar Pradesh
(IMDUP).
(ii) Following data acquired and processed at the
UGC, ASC of University ofLucknow: (a) Entry Behaviour Test. (b)
Personality Profile Battery. (c) Lecture demonstration (d) Faculty
Evaluations. (e) Review writing Exericses. (t) Evaluation of
participants by the subject expert and evaluation of resource person
by participant. (g) Course CoTltent Analysis: (i) by the
participants (ii) by the Resource persons. (h) A scheme for post -
training exercises for teachers having passed through the ASC. (i)
Project papers (subject specific) acquired from each participant at
the end of each course.
(Iii) Introduction of new techniques
in teaching- like demonstrations for use of the3;tre performance in
classroom teaching, subject specific Quiz competitions for
participants, lecture demonstrations by resource persons and each
participants compulsorily.
(iv) Introduction of group
discussions on relevant I - current issues (social, cultural,
political, academic) having relevance in higher education both for
teachers and students. Discussions are conducted by participants who
select their own group leaders and submit ~ a written review and
recommendations at the end of it.
(v) Classes in Computer
applications, Pedagogy, Methodology are being regularly conducted
for both Refresher Course and Orientation ( Programme teachers along
with mandatory evaluation exercises.
(vi) Yoga and
Meditation classes are conducted for each batch to help teachers in
stress management and to enhance the quality of their lives.
The year 2001 was specially significant for the ASC. The
Deptt. of Higher Education, Govt. of U.P. entrusted us the job to
co-ordinate with the 5 state ASCs and draw up a subject-wise, need
based report/analysis for OPs and RCs required by teachers in U.P.
for their Career Advancement Scheme promotions to be completed
before December 2001. On the basis of the data collected the 5 ASCs
of U .P. were ( allocated RCs and OPs by the UGC to clear the
backlog. The UGC-ASC, Lucknow University was allocated RCs in a
record number of subjects including Music (in association with
Bhatkhande Univeristy) and Fine Arts.
Other programmes
organised by the ASC:
1. Workshop on Patent Awareness
(Funded by DST) December 20, 1990
2. Non-Armed Combat for
Lady Teachers in collaboration with WENLIDO, Canada and NGO-Saheli,
New Delhi January 09-17, 2002
3. Teachers Participants
attended the 89th Indian Science Congress January 03-07,2002
4. 47th All India English Teachers Conference in
collaboration with Department of English & Modem European
Languages, University of Lucknow December 27-29, 2002
5.
International Women's Day Poster Exhibition & Awareness campaign
by teachers of the Orientation Programme for University Students and
Citizens March 08, 2003
6. Workshop on Combating Violence
Against. Women in collaboration with American Embassy, New Delhi
& NGO- Suraksha, Lucknow May 12,2003
7. Crystal Jubilee
Celebration (1988-2003) On the completion of fifteen years of its
founding the UGC-Academic Staff College organised a three day
national seminar on Information Technology: A Step Towards
Empowerment. Dr. Arun Nigavekar, Chairman, University Grants
Commission, New Delhi was the Guest of Honour and delivered the
inaugural address. September 19-22, 2003
Despite its limited
resources and means the ASC Lucknow University has stretched its
potential to its maximum limits and under the able and encouraging
guidance of the Chairman/Vice- Chancellor has proved its capability
and utility and validated the purpose and objectives with which the
UGC launched the scheme of ASCs. The contribution of the ASC towards
the academic growth of the teachers of UP and the country and to its
own University is well rewarded when the teachers who visit us once
choose to come back to us again and again as participants and
resource persons. This is all that the ASC seeks-a place in the
heart of its University and its alumnae in the years to
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