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Functions of Academic Staff College |
The functions of an Academic Staff
College will be to plan, organize, implement, monitor and evaluate
orientation courses for newly appointed college/university lecturers
within the jurisdiction of one or more universities in a State. An ASC
will also organize Refresher Courses for serving teachers, and
orientation programmes for Senior Administrators and Heads of
Departments, Principals, Offieres etc. in the Philosophy of orientation
and changed management system. Specifically an Academic Staff College
will:
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Formulate a programme of orientation
along the broad guidelines and syllabus consisting of four components.
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Identify resource persons in the
various fields of specialization for running the orientation course, and
familiarize such resource persons with the philosophy and guidelines for
the courses. The list of resource persons should be approved by the
Chairman of the Advisory Committee of ASC.
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Set up documentation
centre-cum-library for reference and source materials necessary for the
courses.
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Produce specially designed materials
required for effective implementation of the courses.
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Organize, monitor and evaluate
courses for teachers
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To create a culture of learning and
self-improvement among teachers so that it becomes an integral part of
the educational system at the tertiary level.
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Organise orientation programmes for
Heads of Departments, Principals, Deans and other decision markers to
familiarize them with the philosophy of orientation, in order to enable
these senior educational administrators to understand their new roles as
supervisors, and to facilitate the reform in higher education through
appropriate modification of the management systems at various levels.
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