Best Practice I : 

Title of the Best Practice 1: Student Counselling and Guidance for Competitive Examination and Better Career

The goal of education is to help students develop their personalities on all levels. Het should be able to think logically. Our college is dedicated and committed to producing such citizens in order to improve society and help the country flourish. Under the aforementioned procedure, the college runs and performs a variety of programmes and activities aimed at improving the personality and employability abilities of students. This initiative aims to develop an individual’s professional, intellectual, and moral skills.

2: Objective

  • To make student aware about various competitive examination like MPSC, UPSC,
  • Banking etc. To develop students’ aptitude, knowledge and skills for entrepreneurship and self-employment.
  • To provide opportunities for professional growth. To develop a healthy attitude among students towards work and life.
  • To provide study material and better environment for study in college campus. ..To improve personality traits and professional skills.
  • To help the students to know better self-interests, abilities, aptitudes and opportunities.
  • To assist the student in planning for educational and vocational choices. To enable the students to find a job.
  • To improve employability and upgrade skills of students.
  1. Context:

As our organization vision statement is to “Provide value-based quality education and generate Human resource equipped with Contemporary advance skills”. It’s our belief that education can work, when it walks with current problems and local problems as a strong answer to it. This practice deals with professional skills, professional ethics, employability, and soft skills.

In the academic year 2019-2020 college organized various activities and programmes like guest lecture, career guidance, personality development programme etc. The college has established Competitive examination Cell in the Year 1st October, 2016 with Auspicious hand of Shri. Santosh Patil, Additional Collector, Nanded. Since its Establishment the Cell is continuously providing guidance of imminent persons in various fields, the facility of reading room and ample books related to competitive exams, so that they can prepare for competitive exam.

4: Evidence of Success: –

About 180 students were benefitted by the activities of ‘Competitive Examination Centre career guidance Centre •About 300 students participated in various guest lectures on ‘Civil Services Such as UPSC/ MPSC/) Banking and other Competitive Exam’ were also arranged. In the same way a Career Guidance and personality Development Programme were also conducted.

  • An expert guest lecture by Shri. Nurul Hasan (I.P.S.) DYSP on the subject ‘Civil Services Examination followed by expert guest lecture by Hon. S. S. Shaikh District & Session Court Judge Bhokar was arranged on date July 06, 2019.
  • A guest lecture by Mr. Swanin Bhawar Sharthi Education And Career Consultancy And Interview Trainer, on ‘opportunities in the Banking Sector’ was organized on 28.09.2019.
  • One day workshop on ‘Value Education’ was organized, “Student counselling and Guidance for Competitive Examination and Career” by Unique Academy Pune and Delhi is nurturing the abilities and explore the hidden endowment in students. It is the best practice of our college to make our student enough able in different stream to achieve success.
  • Record of relevant news item and photographs.
  • Acknowledgements of student were recorded.
  • About 300 plus students actively participated in value education workshop.

5: Problem Encountered and Resources Required: –

Bhokar is rural place therefore customary practice and conventional localities were huge challenge. Transport services are not enough to organize this kind of To change the mind set of students for vocational studies was an obstacle to of this programme. Economical condition of student’s family is a barrier for the stream. Collaboration of team member, guidance of leader and alternate sources were worked out to encounter the issues. Study material was provided to poor students. To overcome these above cited problems, college was taking proper steps to collaborate with various organization.

Best Practice: II

Title of the Practice: Centralized Campus Management System

Objectives of the Practice:

1) Timely, transparent and effective delivery of official and academic information to students.

2) Facilitate online admission/exam forms submission.

3) An initiative for saving paper, energy and human resource.

4) Maintain digital record of salaries, various grants and other financial details.

 The Context:

In the administration of a higher education institute like ours a great deal of human resource, physical facilities, paper work and time is required for processes like admissions, examinations forms filling, issuing various certificates to students, communication of important information to students, maintaining records of salary and other grants, etc. The data collected with paper work takes efforts to store and its retrieval is time consuming. It is also vulnerable to risks. In this regard information technology has many advantages of its own. The institution has decided to take recourse to Centralized Campus Management System of MasterSoft for finding solutions to these issues.

The Practice:

The institution has subscribed to the Centralized Campus Management System services provided by the reputed software service provider called MasterSoft since 2017-18. The administrative office staff is given training for handling various services provided by MasterSoft. Since the academic year 2019-2020 we are using various services provided in this software extensively as a best practice of the institution. We are performing following tasks with this software.

  1. Online admissions of students, online payments and fees collection on counter.
  2. Issuing various certificates to students i.e. TC/LC, Bonafide, Character certificate, etc.
  3. Generating MIS reports i.e. Caste, category, gender, religion, courses wise bifurcation of data.
  4. SMS service for communicating to students etc.
  5. Maintenance of records of salary and other grants received.

It has helped in saving stationary, human resource, transparent and timely execution of office work, ease in filing, maintenance and retrieval of data as in case any particular data is lost due to failure of a computer system it can be retrieved through Cloud ERP easily. Faster and effective communication of important information to students and parents, teachers is done with the help of this software. The software is used for data safety and ease in retrieval of data.                                                                                                                                      

  1. Evidences of Success:

 The institute is using the above-mentioned services of MasterSoft software. The admission process has become easy with this software. All necessary details of students admitted through this software are available for further use. SMS regarding important dates and students’ performance is delivered to students and parents with this software on a single click without wasting paper and human efforts in reaching to such dispersed group like parents. Mobile numbers of students entered in student details are used for this purpose. This has enhanced the communication between stakeholders like students, teachers and parents. Consequently, it has strengthened the bond between the stakeholders and showed positive results regarding students’ attendance in classes and participation in various extra-curricular activities. 

All the teaching faculties and non-teaching staff has downloaded the MasterSoft app on their mobiles where they can see details like salary slip, I. T. and other deductions, etc. It saves time and efforts of the office staff which they use for performing other important tasks.

In case of demand for any particular information of students or teachers like gender/caste/category wise data by the University, the Joint Director, the UGC, or any such authority, this software enabled the office to provide such information correctly and in a really quick time. Several incidences have happened in last few years that authorities have asked for urgent submissions of information and the task was performed effectively with MasterSoft. This has enhanced the efficacy of administrative staff.

The soft copies of details regarding admissions, data entry of students, soft copies of financial data entries, records of communication with students via SMS service are available on the systems of administrative office. All the data of the use of software is available on Cloud ERP facility that comes with the subscription to software.

  1. Problems Encountered:

As the MasterSoft provides training to the administrative staff every year, seldom, they encounter problems in execution of various activities using the software. But there were some issues regarding the fields available in the software and the fields required in performing the tasks like data entry required for completing the admission of students or the issues with equipment and internet connectivity (bandwidth). These problems were resolved by communicating with the service provider and advancement in office infrastructure.

 In the beginning there were very few numbers of fields for data entry of students. We communicated with the service provider for including the fields required and they responded positively by including those fields. Purchase of new devices like software friendly advanced computers, printers, rail wire providing more bandwidth was done to ensure smooth functioning of the office activities with MasterSoft. Minor issues regarding the functioning of the software have occurred and have been resolved from time to time with the 24/7 help offered by the service provider.