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ANNUAL QUALITY ASSURANCE REPORT 2014-15 (Period: July 2014 - June 2015) BHARATI VIDYAPEETH DEEMED UNIVERSITY, PUNE Submitted to: NATIONAL ASSESSMENT AND ACCREDITATION COUNCIL Bangalore INTERNAL QUALITY ASSURANCE CELL BHARATI VIDYAPEETH DEEMED UNIVERSITY, PUNE LAL BAHADUR SHASTRI MARG PUNE- 411 030 The Annual Quality Assurance Report (AQAR) of the IQAC for the Academic Year 2014-15 Part – A 1. Details of the Institution 1.1 Name of the Institution BHARATI VIDYAPEETH DEEMED UNIVERSITY 1.2 Address Line 1 Bharati Bhavan, Address Line 2 Lal Bahadur Shastri Marg, City/Town Pune State Maharashtra Pin Code 411030 Institution e-mail address [email protected] Contact Nos. 020-24325510 / 24325509 Name of the Head of the Institution: Prof. Dr. Shivajirao S. Kadam Tel. No. with STD Code: 020-24325701 Mobile: 09822008485 AQAR 2014-15 Page 1 Name of the IQAC Co-ordinator: Prof. S. F. Patil Mobile: 09822307348 IQAC e-mail address: [email protected] 1.3 NAAC Track ID (For ex. MHCOGN 18879): 09564 (EC_57_RAR_78 dated 30-11-2011-Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University, Pune-Maharashtra) 1.4 Website address: www.bvuniversity.edu.in Web-link of the AQAR: http://www.bvuniversity.edu.in/AboutBVU/Compliance/AQAR201415.pdf 1.5 Accreditation Details: Sl. Year of Cycle Grade CGPA Validity Period No. Accreditation 1 1st Cycle A - 2004 5 years 2 2nd Cycle A 3.16 2011 5 years 1.6 Date of Establishment of IQAC: DD/MM/YYYY 30/08/2002 1.7 AQAR for the year 2014-15 1.8 Details of the previous year‟s AQAR submitted to NAAC after the latest Assessment and Accreditation by NAAC ((for example AQAR 2010-11submitted to NAAC on 12-10-2011) i. AQAR 2011-12 submitted online to NAAC on 31/12/2012 ii. AQAR 2012-13 submitted online to NAAC on 22/11/2013 iii. AQAR 2013-14 submitted online to NAAC on 26/12/2014 AQAR 2014-15 Page 2 1.9 Institutional Status University State Central Deemed Private Affiliated College Yes No Constituent College Yes No Autonomous college of UGC Yes No Regulatory Agency approved Institution Yes No (eg. AICTE, BCI, MCI, PCI, NCI) Type of Institution Co-education Men Women Urban Rural Tribal Financial Status Grant-in-aid UGC 2(f) UGC 12B Grant-in-aid + Self Financing Totally Self-financing 1.10 Type of Faculty/Programme Arts Science Commerce Law PEI (Phys Edu) TEI (Edu) Engineering Health Science Management Others (Specify) Social Science, Pharmacy, Architecture and 3 Research Institutes. 1.11 Name of the Affiliating University (for the Colleges) N.A. AQAR 2014-15 Page 3 1.12 Special status conferred by Central/ State Government-- UGC/CSIR/DST/DBT/ICMR etc Autonomy by State/Central Govt. /University Central University with Potential for Excellence - UGC-CPE - DST Star Scheme - UGC-CE - UGC-Special Assistance Programme DST-FIST - UGC-Innovative PG programmes - Anyother (Specify) MHRD „A‟ status UGC-COP Programmes - 2. IQAC Composition and Activities 2.1 No. of Teachers 10 2.2 No. of Administrative/Technical staff 2 2.3 No. of students 0 2.4 No. of Management representatives 1 2.5 No. of Alumni 0 2. 6 No. of any other stakeholder and 0 Community representatives 2.7 No. of Employers/ Industrialists 0 2.8 No. of other External Experts 2 2.9 Total No. of members 15 2.10 No. of IQAC meetings held 94 and 3 IQAC meetings were held during the year at Constituent Units and the University, respectively. loiouyr AQAR 2014-15 Page 4 2.11 No. of meetings with various stakeholders: No. 286 Faculty 155 Non-Teaching Staff and Students 77 Alumni 31 Others 23 2.12 Has IQAC received any funding from UGC during the year? Yes No - If yes, mention the amount 2.13 Seminars and Conferences (only quality related) (i) No. of Seminars/Conferences/Workshops/Symposia organized by the IQAC: Total Nos. 55 International 4 National 7 State 7 Institution Level 37 (ii) Themes Some of the quality related themes of conferences and seminars organized by the IQAC are as under: Assessment of sick neonate by Point of care Ultrasonography (FAS-POC-USG) Cardio-Vascular Imaging Scientific Research Proposal Development, Body language and Communication skills and Clinical interpretation of laboratory reports Advanced Neonatal Resuscitation Paediatric Mentcon from Intra to pleura Issues and solutions regarding research of P1 to P5 i.e. Publication, Projects, Products, Process and Patent SWOT Analysis Preparing for Academic Audit and its conduction. ICT Ecosystem in Research Choice Based Credit System Qualitative research in Nursing(Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice) Flipped Classrooms and its impact on Quality Legal Education Innovative Ways of „Teaching Competition , Law and Policy‟: Revamping Traditional Approach Soft Skills enhancement for Social Work Students Community hands–on-training provided to students at State and Local levels Career Opportunities in HR Faculty Development Programme on Soft Computing Entrepreneurship and Business Plan Development Career Opportunities in IT Industries Personality Development and Importance of soft skills Imparting Quality Education, Role of Performing and Reforming Leaders AQAR 2014-15 Page 5 2.14 Significant Activities and contributions made by IQAC Awareness about H index and publications in good quality journals with impact factor Workshop on scientific writing for students and faculty. Involvement of students in planning academic and extracurricular activities. Reviewing the findings of student progress committee Organization of Alumni meets Conducting Academic and Administrative Audit of the University by external experts. Framing of Quality Assurance Policy and ICT Policy of the University by External Experts Maintenance of e-records of attendance and internal assessment marks of the students in some of the constituent units Strengthening of Career Guidance and Placement Cell. Sensitizing students to ecological and environmental issues. Introduction of Choice based Credit System at UG level. Strengthening of ICT use in teaching and learning Organization of workshops, faculty development programmes, seminars, conferences at constituent units A Panel discussion was held on “Management Education – The road ahead” with participation of eminent corporate leaders. Preparation of Perspective plan at institution level. 2.15 Plan of Action by IQAC/Outcome The plan of action chalked out by the IQAC in the beginning of the year towards quality enhancement and the outcome achieved by the end of the year * Plan of Action Achievements To conduct Academic and Administrative Academic and Administrative Audit has been Audit of the University by external conducted by a committee consisting of six experts. external experts during 24th – 25th March, 2015. The report submitted by the committee has been accepted by the Academic Council and the Board of Management of the University. To frame a Quality Assurance Policy for During 4th & 5th May, 2015 a Quality Assurance the University Policy for the University has been drafted and finalized by a committee consisting of two external experts. The policy has been adopted by the University after its approval from various authorities. To frame an ICT Policy for University On 27th May, 2015 a detailed ICT Policy for the University has been formulated by a committee consisting of two external experts. The policy has been approved by various authorities and later was adopted by the University. To visit Constituent Units and monitor Members of the University IQAC has visited AQAR 2014-15 Page 6 Plan of Action Achievements the activities of the respective IQACs. some of the constituent units and observed their functioning. Several suggestions were made to improve the functioning of IQAC of those institutions. To organize seminars and workshops on Constituent Units of the University together have quality aspects organized a total of 55 seminars / workshops of which 4 were at international level, 7 at national level, 7 at state level and 37 at institution level. To use web resources for demonstration IQAC of the Medical College, Pune has created a in classrooms facility in classrooms to demonstrate various concepts and skills using web contents and videos. To organize faculty development Constituent Units of the University have programmes including CME, CDE etc. organized several faculty development programmes in respective disciplines. To enhance the use of ICT for teaching, 11 Constituent Units are using ICT tools such as learning and administration in various Academic Administration system having constituent units. 15modules, eLearning system and a research eco-system having 10 modules. Use of plagiarism software before It has been made mandatory to check for extent submission of the thesis. of plagiarism prior to submission of Ph.D. thesis in all subjects. To implement CBCS for all the under- Choice Based Credit System is effectively graduate programmes implemented for all the UG programmes also. To motivate faculty members to publish Faculty members have published 689 and 341 their research output in peer reviewed research papers in international and national journals at national and international journals respectively, during 2014-15. The levels. corresponding numbers for 2013-14 were 547 and 267 only. Organization of national and 35 national conferences and 21 international international conferences with specific conferences were organized by the university. themes. To strengthen placement activities in 820 students are placed in 2014-15 as against various constituent units 599 in the previous year. To organize alumni meets at various The alumni meets were organized in all most all campuses of the University as well as constituent units. Also, such meets were held in abroad Boston, US and Dubai. To strengthen the automation of paper The software for the purpose has been setting process of various examinations successfully implemented for all the university of the University. examinations, generating 22 types of reports. In the previous year we could produce only 10 types of reports using the existing software. * Academic Calendar of the year is enclosed at Annexure - I.