Academic Audit and Quality Assurance in Higher Education

The role of higher education institutions is reflected in its learning outcomes. The learning outcomes contribute to develop quality professionals by enhancing competency in subject knowledge and intellectual capability, grooming professionalism and employability skills. Still further it contributes to emotional and social maturity, sound character, sharp business acumen, strong scientific temper and strategic thinking among the learners. This could be materialized only through imparting comprehensive, continually enhanced and global quality professional education supported by a sound quality management system. Quality policy contributes to institutionalizing the quality assurance processes. Commitment to providing quality teaching and learning through well designed and systematic curriculum delivery using multitude of learning experiences is at the core of this policy. A variety of quality assurance processes are institutionalized focusing around teacher quality, curriculum delivery and pedagogy, research and training, skill development of students, orientation programmes for overall personality development and broad range of activities which equip the students to face challenges and take up risks with courage. Academic Audit gives feed-back on its efficiency. The observations from the audit are utilised for institutional improvement

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT AND QUALITY ENHANCEMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Maintaining the profile of students and teachers high is a major challenge for higher educational institutions. Teacher quality influences curriculum, provides leadership, and promote student progression leading to innovation and best practices. The leadership provides clear vision and mission for the institution to advance. The functions of the institution and its academic and administrative units are governed by the principles of participation and transparency. Formulation of development objectives, directives and guidelines with specific plans for implementation by aligning the academic and administrative aspects improves the overall quality of the Institutional provisions. With this in view, institutions resort to a lot of ways by which they can attract, motivate and maintain high standards of excellence among teachers and infuse leadership among students. Efforts taken by the institution in maintaining leadership is reflected in the quality policy of the institution as revealed in the top management philosophy of maintaining high standards. This paper discusses the ways and means of leadership development resulting in quality enhancement in higher education institutions

Student Evaluation and Reforms in Higher Education Institutions

Innovative evaluation process in higher education system is required to gauge the knowledge and skills acquired at various levels of the programmes. As part of imparting quality higher education for undergraduate and post graduate students, Srinivas Institute of Management Studies (SIMS) developed an education service model for integrated academic support. Backed by the presumption that evaluation is the essence of examination and examination is vital to assessment, the college has instituted a wide range of evaluation processes which runs parallel to curriculum delivery. In this paper, we have analysed the strategies followed by Srinivas Institute of Management Studies, which is affiliated to Mangalore University for ensuring transparency in evaluation and undertaking reforms to strengthen it. The paper discusses details on the major evaluation reforms of the university that the institution has adopted, and the reforms initiated by the institution on its own, details on some of the formative and summative evaluation approaches adopted to measure student achievement which have positively impacted the system, details on the significant improvements made in ensuring rigor and transparency in the internal assessment and weightages assigned, for the overall development of students. The graduate attributes specified by the college/affiliating university and the institutional effort to ensure the attainment of these by the students, and details of the mechanisms for redressal of grievances with reference to evaluation both at the college and University level are also analysed

A study on the clinical spectrum and electrocardiographic changes in scorpion sting envenomation

Background: Scorpion stings, though not a big problem in many developed countries, it is a major public health problem in underdeveloped and in some developing countries all over the world. Objectives was to study on the clinical spectrum and electrocardiographic changes in scorpion sting envenomation.Methods: This study was conducted in a tertiary care institute after obtaining the IEC clearance and informed consent from the patients for a period of 6 months from January 2018 to June 2018. All the patients admitted to the toxicology ward and general ward with scorpion envenomation during the study period were included in the study. A total number of 53 cases of scorpion envenomation and 20 healthy patients from the outpatient department of General medicine, were taken as controls.Results: Fifty-nine percent of the patients presented with Grade 1 envenomation, seven percent with Grade 2 and thirty four percent with Grade 3 envenomation. Local pain (83%) and tachycardia (19%) were the commonest presenting symptom and sign respectively. Sinus tachycardia (6%) was the commonest ECG abnormality seen in the study. There was statistical significance in the relationship between ECG change and biochemical marker CK-MB.Conclusions: Scorpion envenomation in adults needs to be studied to identify the high-risk groups and to assess the morbidity caused it. There was no mortality due to scorpion sting in the study period and significant correlation between the time delay and severity of envenomation was found which indicates a need for immediate medical care following scorpion sting

Methods and Approaches for Employability Skill Generation in Higher Educational Institutions.

The vision of any higher education institution is an extension of opportunity to all aspirants of education and expansion across all realms of knowledge. Keeping in line with this vision, institutions of higher education should ideally offer the opportunity to take any course to eligible aspirant in any stream of study that it offers. The vision also encompasses a self-reliant society where all people are educated and productively engaged, with the objective of creating academically empowered and ready-for-the-job professionals in diverse fields. To realize this curriculum should provide for building employability skills among students. It is widely agreed that curriculum per se and real job performance do not match and there is need to incorporate skill supplements to boost employability. This paper attempts to outline the measures undertaken to create employment preparedness among students at Srinivas Institute of Management Studies (SIMS), Mangalore

Synthesis and Antimicrobial Activity of 2-(Aminoacid ester)-3-(6-methyl-2-pyridyl)-3,4-dihydro-2H-1,3,2 λ5- benzoxazaphosphinin-2-thiones

Synthesis of 2-(aminoacid ester)-3-(6-methyl-2-pyridyl)-3,4-dihydro-2H-1,3,2λ5-benzoxazaphosphinin-2-thiones (3a–j) was accomplished through a two-step process. It involves the prior preparation of 2-chloro-3-(6-methyl-2-pyridyl)-3,4-dihydro-2H-1,3,2λ5-benzoxazaphosphinin-2-thione monochloride (2) and its subsequent reaction with the aminoacid ester hydrochlorides in dry tetrahydrofuran-toluene in the presence of triethylamine at various temperatures. These compounds were characterizedby IR, 1H, 13C, 31P NMR and mass spectral data.Keywords: 2-[(6-methyl-2-pyridyl) amino] methylphenol, 1,3,2-benzoxazaphosphinin-2-thione, antimicrobial activit

Pelvic lymphadenectomy as a component of interval cytoreduction for ovarian cancer: is there a benefit? A pilot study

Background: Management strategy in ovarian cancer includes a combination of cytoreductive surgery and chemotherapy. Interval cytoreductive surgery has been shown to be oncologically non-inferior to primary cytoreduction with the additional benefit of reduced morbidity. Lymphadenectomy as a component of cytoreductive surgery has been controversial with an unproven therapeutic benefit.Methods: Records of patients with a histological diagnosis of ovarian cancer and treated with interval cytoreduction were evaluated. Disease related, pathological and treatment data collected for analysis.Results: The study included 32 patients with a mean age of 56 years (41-76). Serous papillary tumors (42%) were the predominate histology and the majority were in stage III disease (84%). Optimal cytoreduction was achieved in 93%. The mean nodal harvest was 9.8 nodes with left pelvic dissection yielding slightly more nodes than the right (4.5 vs 5.2). Nodal positivity was observed in just one patient (3%). A total of 314 were nodes examined with only 2 (0.6%) yielding persistent disease. The nodal positivity yield tested as a categorical variable by the binomial test returned P=0.0001.Conclusions: It is possible to omit pelvic nodal dissection during interval cytoreduction in otherwise optimally cytoreduced patients particularly when imaging and intraoperative assessment are not suggestive of pelvic nodal metastasis

AN OPTIMIZED CONTENT CONTROL THAT MAINTAINS SAME LIGHTING

Since that time, ZigBee technologies have been extensively utilized in a wide range of fields, supplying communications and sensing with low power consumption, high reliability, and multi-node networking. With regards to the consumer market in ZigBee-related technologies have existed for any lengthy time but aren't yet globally used. Regarding smart families for example, costs, system installation and operational complexity affect consumer acceptance. ZigBee, which is often used mainly to make short-range wireless connections, is really a communication technology that's a hybrid of wireless marking technology and Bluetooth wireless technology. The machine is operated utilizing a ZigBee remote controller, tablet or cell phone with an Ethernet or Wi-Fi. The primary concept of the suggested product is to supply better and efficient health services towards the patients by applying a networked information cloud so the experts and doctors could utilize this data and supply a quick as well as an efficient solution. Compare the particular RSSI values using the average of 30 RSSI values of automatic lighting configuration by sampling the sunlight return records every thirty seconds. Full deployment of smart meters was already finished in Italia and Norway, and mass rollout is ongoing in Finland and The country. This infrastructure, if used correctly, can offer not only recording use of electricity or perhaps a decision support tool to aid energy usage by users. Better consumer awareness is anticipated to lead to reduced energy consumption thus reducing the requirement for additional power plants which generate green house gases. Restricting and reducing electricity usage during peak periods can lead to cutting lower on the necessity of using peeked plants which usually make greater carbon emissions