Sri Krishna Arts and
Science College is a self-financing co-educational Institution affiliated to
Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, founded by VLB Trust in the year 1997. The Institution is housed in an area of 14.17
acres of land with the state of art buildings of about 34,148 Sq.mts. The Institution has established a quality
management system which is certified by TUV SUD (Germany), ISO 9001:2008
standard. The College is reaccredited at
“A” grade with the high score of CGPA of 3.26 by NAAC in the year
2015-2016. The Week magazine has ranked the College in the 45th
position among the Commerce Colleges in India.
The College has 6097 students in the present year and the faculty
strength is 244. The Compound Annual
Growth Rate of students per year is 21%.
The College offers 23 Undergraduate Programmes, 12 Postgraduate Programmes,
one Integrated Programme and four Research Programmes. The
College has multi-purpose halls and auditoriums like Sri Krishna Hall, four
seminar halls, Open Air Theatre, playground, gymnasium, Two Volleyball
courts, Basket Ball court, Kabaddi court, Football field, Ball badminton court,
Cricket net for practice and standard athletic track with eight lanes are
available in the College. Facilities are plenty for indoor games like table
tennis, Carrom, badminton and Chess. The College has established a Health
Center and a medical dispensary unit in tie-up with Sri Ramakrishna Hospitals. The Institution has signed MOUs with Bombay Stock Exchange
Institute, Mumbai, Tata Consultancy Services – Bangalore, Infosys
– Bangalore, Oracle,
Tally Academy, Aditya Birla
Group, UTL Technologies, Electronic
Skill Development Council, IIT - Mumbai, and Clayton State University, Atlanta,
USA. The College has achieved academic excellence in
various fields by placing its students in various Multi-National Companies like
Infosys, Wipro, TCS, CTS, Deloitte, Tech Mahindra, Aditya Birla, Oracle,
Standard Chartered Bank, KPMG, E&Y, Grant Thronton, IBM, Hotel Taj and
Hotel Asiana etc. The number of
placements for the year 2015-2016 is 1106 with the offer of 1882. The College has 32 Ph.D Degree holders of various
disciplines and 61 faculties are pursuing Ph.D.
The students and the members of Staff have presented 538 papers in
various conferences and published 399 articles in various journals during the
academic year 2015-16. The College has
organized ten National Conference and one International Conference during last
five years. It has undertaken three
collaborative projects and three projects from UGC, New Delhi and Tamil Nadu State Council for
Science and Technology. The Learning Model Architecture of SKASC is “Vision
to Wisdom Approach”. The programmes are
designed based on multifaceted prolonged approach to cater the mission of the
students joining in SKASC. The
curriculum design is at par with the UGC standards for Choice Based Credit
System (CBCS). The teaching, learning
and evaluating system have been inter-linked with the Capstone education model.
SKASC introduced Capstone courses (Capstone Project 1.5 version) to overcome
the barriers in traditional outcome based education by identifying the clinical
capstones (as used in Harvard University). This model in SKASC provides an excellent
opportunity to identify whether students have acquired the central knowledge
and skills which are of the carefully selected outcomes from the expected
courses. The selection of course is done by the students on “Calling Card”
basis. Students can select the desired
course and faculty based on the learning-pathway experience. It ensures
the Flexible Choice Based Credit System. The coherence in the
course has been fixed based on the course objective. The bottom of the capstone
ensures the teaching method. The teaching method differs according to the
objective of the course. For example, the DSC (Discipline Specific Course)
pedagogy has eight “Caps” which describes the behavioural aspects of the
core value. The teaching area will be
divided into four “Caps”. Each “Cap” has
its own objective. Each “Cap” is designed to meet the individual learning style
and talents of the students concerned. Faculty and students agree that the capstone
process is beneficial in terms of providing opportunities for more thoughtful
student reflection. It enables students to make sense of the programme in
a systematic way and encourages students to apply skills and theories. The
learning system of the specific “Cap” has been done in both off-line and in
on-line system. The course materials are posted in Google classroom as well as
in on-line portal of “Myklassroom.com”. The course contents are of reflective
types. It includes studying through bottom line, case studies, application
of knowledge, competency mapping, literature reviews, argumentation papers,
audience analysis, canon discussions, and student self-evaluation. This
enables to enrich the students’ knowledge in respective skills. For this
purpose, Google blogs, knowledge Forum and Apps are created. Students can have
their own blogs and forum. Teaching through Interactive boards in the class
room enables to promote skills in the areas of research, problem solving,
critical thinking, reflection, synthesis, teamwork, communication and
professional orientation. To identify the application of core course values,
SKASC introduced “edutainment” programme. The teaching pedagogy under
edutainment programme will be governed by the demonstrator, instructor and
evaluator. The College has enabled e-learning and m-learning facilities for
students. E-learning is enabled to the students so that they can log on to
virtual classroom (myklassroom.com) and learn their subjects
24 /7. It is a self-based instructor-led learning which includes media in the
form of text, image, animation, streaming video and audio. They can also
interact with faculty and fellow class students, submit assignments and attend
on-line tests. The e-learning platform is merged with social networking to
enable the students to listen to lectures of scholarly professors from other
universities both in India and abroad. It also enables students to learn beyond
curriculum and advanced learning in the subjects of their liking. M-learning is
also enabled for students through Google apps and Myklassroom.com. The number
of contents available is as of now 47320 Subject Links, 26210 Course related
Articles, 3555 Faculty Lectures 7371 Educational Videos, 4481 Visual Presentations,
6526 Instructor Notes, 2503 Course Assignments. The students have options to
attend Sunday tests and placement tests through Myklassroom.com. The
evaluation system is based on the “Cap” designed for the particular course.
SKASC strongly believes that the evaluation system should be based on the
clinical behavioural aspects of the students. Hence modular assessments
system is introduced. The evaluation of Caps are based on fourteen
parameters. Out of that, a course will
have minimum four parameters. Each parameter will be assessed by its own
objective and method. It is specified in the lesson plan of the course.
This ensures the evaluation established on the understanding and application
level based for the specific skill required for the particular course. Due
to this approach, students can easily map their own competency and fix career
path based on the skills acquired. The
vision mapping of a student is based on the courses he chooses and not based on
the programme. The students’ counsellor
will map the competency of the students in each area and suggest the desirable
courses for him. The students have the option of choosing three Ability
enhancement courses, two language courses, eight Discipline specific courses,
two discipline centric elective courses, four inter-discipline electives, two
skill enhancement courses and four non-credit courses. The course objective
will be matched with his vision statement. Hence the vision values are
customised according to the needs of the students. To impart industrial skills,
industry-academic interface courses are introduced. A student can opt for
institutional training during the first-year summer vacation and during fifth
semester he can opt for Industrial Exposure Training. During the period
2011-16, 2214 students were trained by the industries. The success of vision
mapping has been proved by the alumni of SKASC. During the period 2011-16,
SKASC has produced 34 auditors, 512 BFSI professionals, 421 programmers, 2321
ITES professional, 972 trainers in IT sector, 211 second generation
entrepreneurs, 32 first generation entrepreneurs and six international
volleyball players. The institution has produced eleven state players in
volleyball, 92 players representing Basketball, Soft ball, Cricket and
Athletics is University level. The College has
introduced innovations in academics, administration and other levels of College
functioning to foster global competencies among students and enable them to
carve a niche for them in this fast changing educational scenario.
Our Vision for 2016-17 "Inclusive Growth through Digital Convergence"
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