Staff Reporter
VIJAYAWADA: In this era of knowledge society, sharing of expertise and best practices has contributed to greater growth of organisations and colleges are no exception.
Realising this need, local colleges are looking at possibilities for networking so that they can redefine strategies and produce globally competent students by resetting their goals. Experts say that the idea is to bring colleges together for evolving collective strategies and maximise networking activities by signing memoranda of understanding between themselves.
The main challenge lies in identifying best practices and following them to raise the general standards of education in local institutions. As a step in this direction, the Andhra Loyola College (ALC) has initiated a number of activities aimed at bringing together various colleges.
The networking will be carried out at various levels so that the best practices can be shared among participating colleges. “The ultimate goal is to contribute to the raising of standards in terms of both teaching standards and professional research,” said ALC principal S. Emmanuel on Saturday.
Workshop tomorrow
Addressing a press conference, he said that a one-day workshop would be organised on the topic ‘on networking among autonomous colleges’ on Monday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Principals of various autonomous colleges would participate and exchange their views and experiences in this forum. The venue would be the conference hall of the ALC. ALC administrative officer G. Mathew Srirangam said that initiating steps for networking assumed importance in the wake of increasing importance for sharing of knowledge and expertise.
He explained that all these efforts were to prepare students for national and international competition.
Mr. Srirangam said that a clear strategy was devised to chalk out plans for putting networking among various colleges in place through sharing of resources, best practices and ideas.
The final outcome would be to formalise modalities of networking and arrive at MoUs among interested colleges.
