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Andhra Pradesh-Hyderabad
By R. Ravikanth Reddy
These committees would visit 10 to 12 colleges in Hyderabad, Warangal, Kurnool, Bhimavaram and Kakinada and check whether the claims made by colleges regarding their facilities and academic activities matched those made in a questionnaire supplied to them by the Andhra Pradesh State Council for Higher Education (APSCHE). A second batch of committees would visit another 10 to 12 colleges on March 5 and 6 for a similar study. The members of these committees, who include senior and noted academics would interact with the managements, teachers and students of the colleges and submit their report to the APSCHE. Out of 220-odd engineering colleges, only 37 colleges, which were established before 1995 have been selected for the first round of inspection. "Colleges established before the liberalisation policy came into force have been chosen for the first round of inspection,'' said a senior official of the APSCHE. It may be recalled that the decision to grade the colleges was apparently taken in view of the burgeoning number of Engineering colleges and the rising criticism over the lack of infrastructure and healthy academic atmosphere in them. The idea was also to clearly differentiate between the good and the average for the benefit of the students. The APSCHE prepared an exhaustive question bank for the academic audit of the colleges based on various parameters and asked the colleges to fill the questionnaire and submit it. The range and scope of the questions were carefully designed to elicit maximum information. A broad outline was prepared on which the mission and goals of the colleges, financial, physical resources and their utilisation, faculty and staff, teaching/learning processes, Library facilities, Modernisation, industry- institution interaction and research and development activities were to be tested. A software designed by the Regional Engineering College (REC), Warangal, would be used to assess the information. According to C. Subba Rao, Chairman, APSCHE, once the reports are ready, the steering committee consisting of members like F.C. Kohli of TCS, Mumbai, former JNTU Vice-Chancellor, Dayaratnam, Rama Rao and others will examine them and arrive at a grade. They would view it holistically and compare the facilities with the best of other colleges in India. Colleges which were established after 1995 would be inspected by some other teams in April. However, officials made it clear that a final picture regarding the grading would emerge much before the admissions into engineering colleges are made for the year 2003-2004.
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