Objectives

The objectives of the Academic Staff College (ASC) are to enable newly appointed Lecturers to:

• Understand the significance of education in general, and higher education in particular, in the global and Indian contexts;
• Understand the linkages between education and economic and socio-economic and cultural development, with particular reference to the Indian polity where democracy, secularism and social equity are the basic tenets of society;
• Acquire and improve art of teaching at the college/university level to achieve goals of higher education;
• Keep abreast of the latest developments in their specific subjects;
• Understand the organization and management of a college/university and to perceive the role of teachers in the total system;
• Utilize opportunities for development of personality, initiative and creativity;
• Promote computer literacy as well use of ICT in teaching and learning process;