Interim evaluation on the impact of HETC project in strengthening the quality of university education: a special reference on the North and East Universities.

The American Higher Education system led to the economic growth and country development to USA. As a result USA higher education system became a world leading education system. It was the model for Higher Education systems in other countries and the Universities expected to play responsible role in leading the countries. Actually, Sri Lankan has very very limited number of academics with high caliber in particular fields. Especially, universities in North and East have very very less high caliber academics and necessary facilities as a result these universities are struggling to provide quality education to meet the twenty first century demands. Many of these universities’ academics have poor knowledge in English language to enhance their capacity. In 2009 the ethnic conflict was brought to an ended. The higher education system has got a golden opportunity to enhance the capacity and knowledge to the academics to deliver quality education service through the HETC project. It has six components to the project. Such as University Development, External Degree program, Human Resource development, Quality improvement, Enhance the Library services and Innovative Development for Arts students. The data was extracted from the Univerersity of Jaffna , Eastern University , and South eastrn univerity that are located in the North and Eastern provincs in Sri Lanka. Here, I was analysed the data by enhanceing the efficent and effictivenes of the human rsource. In the analysis, it is found that each factors The importance of HETC Project to a University to generatate the new knowledge, engenders innovations, enhances the quality of teaching staff, increases an institution’s reputation and its economic status. participation in project activites it is therefore pertinent to understand the factors that influence performance and strengthening the quality of University Education. by university staff. The aim of this study was evaluate the activities are going to establish stable and sustainable development. The HETC project has a monitoring system for their internal controlling purpose for each university. But, no-body Stil not conduct formative evaluation to measure the rate of success or the strengthening the quality of University Education to investigate the factors affecting performancss Specifically, the study aimed at determining the relationship between accessibility to knowledge and capacity of the Humanresoureces. Further study used a descriptive survey design to collect the pertinent data. The target population consisted the bennifited academic staff of Northe east Universities. The study, therefore recommended that universities and the government must improve the deliver quality higher education services for equitable social and economic development and research environment, funding, time availability and high qualified staff in order to improve output in the universities; further, it also recommends that more studies should be conducted to identify other ways of dissemination of funding, as well as comparative studies which will give more comprehensive results to guide further improvement. combination of stratified. 5th Annual International Research Conference- 2016 Faculty of Management and Commerce- SEUSL Random sampling was then used to select the respondents proportionately from each category. Data was collected using structured questionnaires. The data collected was analyzed using Descriptive statistics (frequencies, percentages, means and standard deviations) and inferential statistics The financial progress of University of Jaffna has achieved 46%, Eastern University is 24% and South Eastern University is 31% targets, up to the July 2014. The Universities has not considered administrative and financial efficiency and effectiveness to deliver the good governance to the stake holders. Most of the teachers are involved or conduct several research but a few researches are fulfill the government goal and vision to develop the stable economic growth. Some are unable to get the support or assistants to achieve goal from the stake holders. Due to fair knowledge in English and IT skills the physical resources are not fully utilized. The human resource capacity development program is a long term program. After the completion of the HR Program, they will be able to revise the curriculum, learning and teaching environments. Only sixty teachers got opportunity to reading the Master and Doctorate studies. It is not enough to meet international and multi-national market’s. As a result the developing countries are contionuously depending from the developed countries or funding organization. Accordingly, importance to enhance the human Resource or human capital and social capital investment to overcome inadequate staff or inefficient staff recruitments to the system and consider to enhancing the English language skills and IT skill for the staff and students. To enhance physical capacity such as computers, furniture, Equipment, infrastructure development for laboratories, training and network facilities in an efficient manner, the inventory management also has created several difficulties it should be regularized and maintain with the university inventory controlling system. The project will focus of the productivity in high caliber academic and strengthening the quality of University Education output in the form of academic publications. This concerns both the quantitative growth and the quality of the output. The project will contribute to our understanding of the growing differences between universities when it comes to strengthening the quality of education and research productivity: Why are some universities more successful than others in increasing their strengthen, quality and research productivity? The project includes an analysis of the ways in which national and institutional policy objectives and instruments play in the increase and strengthening the quality of University Education to deliver quality higher education services for equitable social and economic development. In this both quantitative and qualitative methodologies will be used. The HR (doctoral education) component of the project will become part of an international research project that aims at analysing developments with respect to deliver quality higher education services for equitable social and economic development education

Late-Time Circumstellar Interaction in a Spitzer Selected Sample of Type IIn Supernovae

Type IIn supernovae (SNe IIn) are a rare (< 10%) subclass of core-collapse SNe that exhibit relatively narrow emission lines from a dense, pre-existing circumstellar medium (CSM). In 2009, a warm Spitzer survey observed 30 SNe IIn discovered in 2003 - 2008 and detected 10 SNe at distances out to 175 Mpc with unreported late-time infrared emission, in some cases more than 5 years post-discovery. For this single epoch of data, the warm-dust parameters suggest the presence of a radiative heating source consisting of optical/X-ray emission continuously generated by ongoing CSM interaction. Here we present multi-wavelength follow-up observations of this sample of 10 SNe IIn and the well-studied Type IIn SN 2010jl. A recent epoch of Spitzer observations reveals ongoing mid-infrared emission from nine of the SNe in this sample. We also detect three of the SNe in archival WISE data, in addition to SNe 1987A, 2004dj, and 2008iy. For at least five of the SNe in the sample, optical and/or X-ray emission confirms the presence of radiative emission from ongoing CSM interaction. The two Spitzer nondetections are consistent with the forward shock overrunning and destroying the dust shell, a result that places upper limits on the dust-shell size. The optical and infrared observations confirm the radiative heating model and constrain a number of model parameters, including progenitor mass-loss characteristics. All of the SNe in this sample experienced an outburst on the order of tens to hundreds of years prior to the SN explosion followed by periods of less intense mass loss. Although all evidence points to massive progenitors, the variation in the data highlights the diversity in SN IIn progenitor evolution. While these observations do not identify a particular progenitor system, they demonstrate that future, coordinated, multi-wavelength campaigns can constrain theoretical mass-loss models.Comment: 10 pages, 6 figures, accepted to AJ (with comments

Supernovae in Early-Type Galaxies: Directly Connecting Age and Metallicity with Type Ia Luminosity

We have obtained optical spectra of 29 early-type (E/S0) galaxies that hosted type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). We have measured absorption-line strengths and compared them to a grid of models to extract the relations between the supernova properties and the luminosity-weighted age/composition of the host galaxies. The same analysis was applied to a large number of early-type field galaxies selected from the SDSS spectroscopic survey. We find no difference in the age and abundance distributions between the field galaxies and the SN Ia host galaxies. We do find a strong correlation suggesting that SNe Ia in galaxies whose populations have a characteristic age greater than 5 Gyr are ~ 1 mag fainter at V(max) than those found in galaxies with younger populations. However, the data cannot discriminate between a smooth relation connecting age and supernova luminosity or two populations of SN Ia progenitors. We find that SN Ia distance residuals in the Hubble diagram are correlated with host-galaxy metal abundance, consistent with the predictions of Timmes, Brown & Truran (2003). The data show that high iron abundance galaxies host less-luminous supernovae. We thus conclude that the time since progenitor formation primarily determines the radioactive Ni production while progenitor metal abundance has a weaker influence on peak luminosity, but one not fully corrected by light-curve shape and color fitters. Assuming no selection effects in discovering SNe Ia in local early-type galaxies, we find a higher specific SN Ia rate in E/S0 galaxies with ages below 3 Gyr than in older hosts. The higher rate and brighter luminosities seen in the youngest E/S0 hosts may be a result of recent star formation and represents a tail of the "prompt" SN Ia progenitors.Comment: 44 pages, 11 figures, 4 tables; ApJ Accepted (Sept. 20, 2008 issue