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Nobody
can believe about B++ Grading by NAAC team to
Patna's premiere Science College which was once
known as the "Cambridge of the East" and still
known as the best college in Bihar.
This news is really kind of shocking to
everybody and now this is the matter for
discussion among educated class of Bihar too
living in India and abroad on the issue of
failing norms and standards of education by this
college in recent years.
We don't know on which NAAC parameters this
premier college failed to satisfy the criteria
but there is no doubt as far as quality of
teachers, quality of students, quality of labs
(in comparison to other colleges of Bihar), cut
off marks for admission into ISC/BSC/MSC,
results of students in IITs/IIMs/UPSC exam are
concerned, this college is still the best in
Bihar and better than many colleges that
received A Grade in various cities of India.
As I am an alumni of this college in PG dept and
also involved with some projects with college, I
do feel the degradation in maintaining past
quality at all fronts and also faced many
problems while executing projects in the said
premier college. I am going to enlist some
negative side of the college which may have
caused for this sorry figure:
1. Professors of the college are involved in
private tuitions to earn money.
2. Research work is almost zero. (But this is
the only college in Bihar where few does real
research work).
3. Most of the good teachers are retired. No new
appointments have taken place.
4. No good professional courses run by Science
College, still they are the best in basic
sciences.
5. Non-initiative nature for new things/new
courses by professors
The college will have to improve a lot to retain
its pride. I do hope that professors of this
premier college would get lessons from the
assessment of NAAC team and will work for
improvement in the college.
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Following seven criteria has been
identified to serve as the basis of
assessment procedures by National
Assessment and Accreditation council
of India (NAAC)
Curricular Aspects
Teaching-Learning and Evaluation
Research, Consultancy and Extension
Infrastructure and Learning
Resources
Student Support and Progression
Organization and Management
Healthy Practices
I don’t exactly know the current
curriculum for Undergraduates and
Post-graduates program, but what I
know is, the ongoing practical
examination system of 19th century,
is due to poor infrastructure. Most
of the young teachers of Science
College are not updated with current
science because of the shift in
their teaching activities from
Science College to coaching
institutes. Regarding research, one
has to write grants with full
devotion and vision. I do not
exactly know, what happened to them,
but lack of interest and courage to
carry out research (as a challenge)
from their (faculty) side has
compelled the young students of
Science College to change their
course of action in their lives...,
like joining probationary and
Administrative officer or even bank/LIC
clerks rather than scientist or
teacher. This shows that there is no
support system working for students
and their progress in science. As
far as I know, BARC (Bhabha Atomic
Research Center) provides employment
to 10-15 young M.Sc in different
department in each subject. Science
College has failed to send students
there since the last 20 years. Not
only BARC, one can hardly see
students of undergraduate and
post-graduates from Science College
at any institutes of national
repute.
Science College got B++ grade, is
really a matter of pride. Because
the college has maintained its glory
at par with other senior secondary
school of Patna in terms of
producing engineers and doctors from
I.Sc classes.
Government has failed to promote and
keep the prestige of a few
prestigious colleges across Bihar on
the pattern adopted by central
Government for IITs and Central
Universities, (different pay
structure and selection procedure).
Thus, the faculty selection for
Science College, Patna and ABCD
College such as Mahesh Bhagat
Banwarilal College, Muzaffarpur fall
in the same line. Apart from this, I
think our social set up is also
responsible for decline where basic
science has lost its credibility to
technology (to some extent) that led
to this situation.
At this moment, I can only suggest
that Government should identify a
few premier colleges and follow the
path adopted by Central Government.
- Dr. Sudhir Ranjan, USA - Feb.
17, 2007
I am an alumnus too. I agree with
you in totality. It is time to wake
up, rise and shine again. - Dr.
Jaya Vatsyayan, Pittsburgh, PA -
Feb. 17, 2007
As you said it is shocking for us as
well who are not an alumni of this
college. But I guess along with the
factors which you mentioned there
are few more things which might have
affected.
It's true that Science College has
the highest cut off mark for
admission in Patna. But the question
comes is, how do we justify that.
There are other colleges like AN
College which is giving tough
competition to Science college. In
my opinion AN college as far as
infrastructure is concerned is much
better than Science College. On the
top of that they also have started
few professional and vocational
courses. Which is been completely
ignored or not done at appropriate
level by Science College. So the
rating have gone down. I guess this
is the time when the officials of
Science College should wake up and
take appropriate action before this
college goes to grade C. - Samir
Kumar Mishra - Feb. 17, 2007
I
am an ex-student of Patna Science
College with some of the greatest
professors teaching me (they have
retired now). I think with such
learned and talented teachers Patna
Science College should have attained
glory. Sadly, because of a few, the
blame for its deterioration is put
on all the professors, which is not
true. Rather, the administration and
discipline needs to be taken care
of. For that, I think Patna Women's
College deserves appreciation for
it's discipline and also for the
introduction of various new courses.
- Anjali - Feb. 18, 2007 |
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