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Going anonymous for obvious reasons. But let me tell at least something about my identity – I am a second year student from IS&E department. Many have written so many good things about SJCE (and they are all true); now let me tell you the other side of SJCE. Fasten your seatbelts – the journey is long!1. Let’s begin with the lack of common sense in principal’s office. He will go on leave for days (one, two or many) yet no one will be given in-charge. What should a student, who needs to submit his scholarship form do in such a case? Should students keep roaming around? PM Modi manages to visit three nations in a single day and returns to his office at the right time, next day morning.Solution: Why don’t they maintain a ledger where they collect the documents to be signed by principal (during his absence) & give some acknowledgement receipt to students? Get all of them signed (as soon as possible (or priority based if necessary but in an unbiased way)) and return it to students in time. This would show some concern towards students.But no!! Principal is more bothered about making students not to stand in the CS dept. lobby and more bothered about keeping the classroom curtains open! Ridiculous! College celebrates alumni meet but none is bothered to listen to issues which currently studying students are facing.2. Office & officials behavior –i. The break time for students & office is the same! What an idea sir ji? So, basically students must bunk classes in order to visit office for their work and there is no excuse if the student has shortage of attendance. I can teach a kid the concept of ‘irony’ with this instance.ii. And the clerks, accounts officer & registrar are the laziest, the most egoistic and highly unworthy persons. The dirty clerks are never on time in the morning & they start putting the columns in register (like sl no, name, sem, date, sign, etc) after the students have formed a big queue to submit their forms or other docs. All are too busy to answer to students’ queries. All they say is - “your application will be rejected!” Seriously? This is not a solution man.Instance which a friend told me – Registrar once had a form to sign on his table at 1:29 PM and before he could put his pen on the form, the clock hit 1:30 PM and he asks the student (only student standing at his table) to visit him at 2:30 PM as it was time for his lunch break. Tell me the tool with which this person must be hammered!Change in their behavior is expected! This can be brought only by strict & stringent actions against them by higher authorities.3. Let’s speak about professors –- Many do their PhD just to get the perks which a PhD holder professors gets & nothing more than that (few professors are really honorable though, I respect them a lot). All those who once said, “I cannot give you marks because your answer is not in the way I taught” also got their PhD! I wish to know their scope for research. And a 100 mark answer sheet is evaluated within 5 minutes (how on earth is this possible?)- You go to their cabins to discuss something or for some work; none welcomes you with a neat smile and none ask you to sit down. Students might be carrying laptops (around 2-4 kg) – that’s a lot of weight to carry (while being very careful talking to you to sound sweet to them to satisfy their ego)- All expect us to put the reference papers for our projects and seminars. Nobody cares to take some trouble to teach students how to study those complicated research papers! Think professors, think! Profs comment that the student has done a simple project. Do they ever think of the effort which the student has put behind doing it? The project done by him might be beyond his average abilities. Not everyone is Einstein.- They consider their work as a favor they do on students by warning that they are the ones to give students recommendations, they’re the ones who will give students marks to become a graduate, etc. Professors! Being a teacher is more than these. It’s a responsibility that builds a nation. Be supportive to students. That’s your strength (not reducing marks with irrelevant arguments that there is no margin drawn in blue book! Please professors)4. Campus -- Proud to have 117 acres of area and yet students find it difficult to park their vehicles because of idiotic behaviours of security guards who think themselves as IPS officers.- There is no reading room, students are not allowed to take their books in the reference section of library, also we are not allowed to sit inside department benches on holidays to study. What if the student stays in hostel and there is lot of noise in & around his room? Where should he go & how should he study? Does anyone even realize how depressing it is - if the student is quite ambitious thinking that he has come to a far place to achieve something & the environment where he stays doesn’t allow him to work. Give some liberty for actions intended to do good & for good purposes.I wonder not why students commit suicides; if a young & growing heart has these many inconveniences to go through & tolerate helplessly. It crossed my mind several times in two years but I’ve remained strong. My priority & my will towards making a worthier life is higher than my death.If you’ve made yourself to read this far, then a special thanks to you for respecting my grievances. But there is a request, if there is someone who is reading this and who is powerful enough to bring constructive changes in college, then please go forward and do it. It is going to help a lot of students.(The only person who is sweetest in this college is the lady in the library who collects bags at the entrance. She welcomes all students with a smile & if it’s afternoon, she enquires if the student has had his lunch! At least, reward her with some gifts & bonus. You need not take this point seriously, I will anyway present her with something at the end of my course.)Thank you so much! I hope some changes will be brought in college for good.

Beat the plant operator in at 6 am. Review & organize calendar for today, and a week out. Read-respond to emails, phone messages. Check inbox, starting from the bottom up (that’s where the important stuff ends up). Work on the most critical project to move it along to next level by communicating with co-workers or external supports, creating a needed document, email, list, calendar events or timelines. Touch base w/plant operator on facility issues, because it’s 6:00. (This piece was written with my smallest—800-student—school in mind. I ran other schools up to 2400, so double or triple all this for bigger schools.) Check teacher eval folder for observations or conferences. Note teachers you need to speak with as they come in, re individual student issues, field trips, tech issues, responses to their note or question, testing, schedule issues, next-year change proposals, or their input on certain decisions. Complete one teacher eval to be submitted, and another eval on non-certified staff. Send notes to all deans, assistant principals, & counselors with a thanks on something they did well recently, and on priority issues for today and this week. Plan agendas for any upcoming meeting and decide what docs might be needed. Make delegation list for remaining issues. Go to early meeting w/parent over discipline issue, then to meeting with team leaders. Greet teachers coming in; now it’s 7:30. Short stand-up meetings w/teachers who have a question or concern. Touch base w/head clerical personnel for two-way heads up about spillover or upcoming issues. Add their items to your notes or calendar. Step outside onto the plaza, where kids are gathering for opening. Walk through the clusters of kids, speaking, greeting, asking input questions, quelling a disagreement, always calling kids by their names. Detect any anxiety, bullying, pot or liquor smells, etc. Return to front steps or main foyer for intake, because the 8:00 bell just rang. With your administrative team, continue to visually do a red flag scan every student for mood stability, inappropriate dress, or any indication of possible contraband or leftover behavior or social issues from the previous day. Pull aside students who seem distraught or angry so they can process with an adult before their first class. Call social worker, counselor or agency resources as needed for these. Walk the halls after intake is complete, touching base with students and making sure teachers are interacting actively at their classroom doors. Hand each teacher the flyer for the assembly, showing sections for seating and arrival times for each class. Note any requests or concerns by teachers along the way. When halls are clear, return to office and meet w/3 parents re discipline issues. Call in 2 students who witnessed a fight or other incident. Meet w/ lead clerical re priorities for the day and upcoming week. Do formal observations on two teachers, enter those into system. Do walk-through on four other teachers, writing notes to them with positive feedback, and noting any concerns for later. Stop by the senior English teacher’s class to pick up her assembly plan for the next day. Then begin your morning meetings, as it’s now 10:00: first is the PTO officers, then incoming student teachers for the next semester, then 2 discipline and one IEP (special needs), next a phone conference w/3 university professors proposing a joint project. All of these are stopped by your excusing yourself for 4 minutes during class change, because it’s the most dangerous time of day; having heavy adult presence during the change prevents fights and bullying; it’s all hand on deck, including you. You wrap up the meetings by 1:00, time for 3rd lunch, which you supervise personally, because one of your 2 APs is with a child who had a seizure, calling the life squad and the parent. The other one is sorting out a near-fight from 2nd lunch, in which each kid is threaten to call his cousins down to finish it off on the schoolyard after the final bell. Your security aide had intercepted an intruder who posed as a parent but was actually seeking his young girlfriend, who had been victimized by him in the past. The SRO is called in to determine whether to charge him for trespassing, because he’s done this twice before. Lunch is finally over. Security aides are advising you of 2 students who need conferencing b/c the APs are tied up w/other lunch conflicts. Two parents are waiting in the main office to see you; you meet with each and take notes to pass on to one teacher and the SSW. You call back 4 other parents, sending the remaining 6 calls to the APs. Other calls are piling up, from school partners, a former teacher who wants a recommendation to grad school, and a local college who wants to bring 2 student teachers in. You heat up your Lean Cuisine in the staff room, giving some smiles encouragement to security and a secretary there. Then you eat lunch in the team leader meeting. When they leave, you walk the 2nd floor because there seems to be a lot of kids in the hall, so where’s security? You know this b/c you glance at the monitor throughout the day just to help w/safety. Today is not a fire drill, so that saves a good 20 minutes. There’s 4 girls on the 2nd floor with no apparent mission. What’s going on on? You walk all 2 back to class and discover during your conversation with the other 2 that there is a fight brewing for after school. You shut down the fight by sending 1 student home with parent permission, holding the other one after school until Mom picks her up, and calling the other high school where the other parties are so they can take similar action. You trek up to the AP offices to check in on anything they need from you, and to reinforce their deterrent message to students who disrupted a class. You walk the halls one more time for visibility, check a couple of bathrooms along the way, and head down to the main lobby to assist with outflow to the busses. You join the last of the groups as they go out, staying visible on the schoolyard, and assisting, along with other staff, any child who has missed their bus, can’t find their bus pass, or needs encouragement to walk away from a potential argument that’s brewing. The last bus leaves, and you head back in, get a bottle of water from your office stash, and head for the freshman team meeting, answering questions and making notes about what could be done in next year’s freshman retreat to make the experience more successful. You head over to the gym to speak to a coach that’s not in your building about a parent complaint from the previous day. You stop by volley practice to give a shoutout to them for winning the previous week against a big rival. Heading back to the office, you check in w/your lead clerical, who hands you a stack of 9 people to call back, including your boss, the Asst. Superintendent. Two seniors stop in to let you know they got acceptance letters to their top choices and you are as ecstatic as they are! You call the AS back, then send a memo to him so that his issue, which you’ve already handled….is all in writing. You stop in to two other teacher meetings, then do 2 parent meetings (one scheduled and one walk-in), then realize you needed to hit the ladies’ room 2 hours ago. You realize on the way there that it’s getting quieter, kids who stayed for tutoring or detentions are heading out, so you go back to the main office to thank clerical for their work on such a busy day. A few teachers stop by on their way out, but many are still in their classrooms, doing lesson planning or sharing info with their team-mates. Back in the office, you look at the stack in your inbox, lots of new stuff in there: letters, forms, documents to review for upcoming meetings or decisions. You get more water, feeling like you can never catch up. But before you get to the inbox, you see another pile to process, the one with notes and stuff collected as you walked around. You sit down to check on any critical -looking emails, then pull all the new dates you got on your rounds and put them on the calendar, because the lead clerical just left, because it’s now 5 pm. You get on the big gridded whiteboard to sketch out schedule ideas for next year, in preparation for a staff input meeting tomorrow. You’ll have to share with them the preliminary budget that the central office has given you, which holds 3 less teaching positions. You look at the enrollment projections, and put a few ideas together to help structure the input meeting so that it doesn’t turn into a funeral. You put together an agenda that includes Putting on some upbeat music while teachers are coming in, and spending a few minutes doing some fun “shoutouts” to teachers for various things that have gone right so far this year. You want them to leave that meeting determined to help figure out a schedule that could work with attrition, rather than sending them home with the fear that it might be them or their teammate that would be cut. Teacher morale is critical, so since everybody’s now gone and it’s quiet enough to focus, you wrestle with all this for an hour and a half, until you have some workable options and feel like the meeting could work. You look up, and it’s 7:30; you’re late for the game. You gather up your pink call-back messages, pick 3 folders out of a file, and several items from the inbox, stuff them into your briefcase, and head out to the game. You check in with a security aide to find out how the JV team did. The varsity girls volleyball team sees you and players wave as you enter the gym. You stop by the section behind their bench to congratulate and high-five the JV players, who are staying to watch the varsity game. Then you go to the adjacent section and sit with a group of active parents to watch together with them, exchanging news and ideas for a new fundraiser as you watch. At half-time, you head out to go to the boys’ football game across town, stopping at the concession stand for dinner in the form of a hot dog. At 9:30, you get home, exhausted, switch on the 10:00 news with a cup of decaf and hope none of your students or former students have been arrested or killed. You pull out the first stack of papers you brought home to read, check your own mail and return personal email & messages so the family knows you’re still alive, and take a nice hot shower before falling into bed. ….So, that’s what we principals “do all day,” always working our brains to try to catch up with a job where you don’t have a prayer of ever catching up or getting to the most important work you really went there to do. Much of your work is invisible to others, and it’s a grueling sacrifice to just make sure that kids and staff are even safe every day. Do we ever get the big work done? (Like designing a better master schedule, or rethinking discipline altogether? Yes, some of it, but not enough. Could principals use better support so that the big stuff would have a better chance of getting done? For certain. Would I have traded my life as a principal in several city high schools for anything else? No way.

Madam I have very few experience in this fieldbut i am trying for answering your questionStudents are required to attend at least 75% of the classes actually held in each course and at least 60% in the repeat course / subject and participate, to the satisfaction of the School/Department/Centre, in study seminars, sectionals and practicals as may be prescribed. The progress of work of the research scholars and their attendance is regularly monitored by their supervisors/Schools/Departments/Centres and the names of the defaulters removed from the rolls. Absence from classes continuously for 10 days and more will make the student liable have his/her name removed from the rolls of the University. Absence on medical reasons should be supported by a certificate which has to be submitted soon after recoveryEvaluation regulationsThe performance of each student enrolled in a course will be assessed at the end of each semester. Evaluation of all P.G., Advanced P.G./P.G. Diplomas, M.Phil., M.Tech and Integrated PG courses is done under the Grading System. There will be 7 letter grades; A+, A, B+, B, C, D and F on a 10 point scale which carries 10,9,8,7,6,5,0 grade points respectively.The final result in each course will be determined on the basis of continuous assessment and performance in the end of semester examination which will be in the ratio of 40:60 in case of theory courses and 60:40 in laboratory courses (practicals).The mode of continuous assessment will be decided by the School Board concerned. The students will be given a minimum of three units of assessment per semester in each course from which the best two performances will be considered for the purpose of calculating the result of continuous assessment. The record of the continuous assessment in such a form as the School Board may decide will be maintained by the School/Department/Centre.At the end of semester examination, the answer scripts will be evaluated and the grades scored by each student in each course taken by him/her will be communicated to the Dean of the School/Head of the Department/Centre for onward transmission to the Office of the Controller of Examinations. Wherever required, the Dean / the Head of the Department/Centre along with the teacher concerned may moderate the evaluation(a) Students must obtain a minimum of 'D' grade in each course in order to pass in the Postgraduate, Adv. PG/ Postgraduate diploma, M.Phil, M.Tech and Integrated PG courses. Students who obtain less than 'D' Grade in any course, may be permitted to take the supplementary examination in the course/s concerned within a week after the commencement of the teaching of the next semester. Appearance at such examinations shall be allowed only once. Those students who get less than 'D' grade in the supplementary examination also shall have to repeat the course concerned or take an equivalent available course with the approval of the Head of the Department/Centre and the Dean of the School concerned. Such approval should be obtained at the beginning of the semester concerned.(b) In order to be eligible for award of medals/prizes and ranks etc., the students should complete the course within the prescribed duration. The grades obtained by the student in the supplementary/ repeat/improvement examinations shall not be taken into account for the award of medals/prizes/ranks etc. Further, for the purpose of award of M.Phil. and M.Tech. medals, prizes and ranks, the student should complete the course, examination and submission of dissertation etc., within a maximum period of three and five semesters respectively from the date of the admission to the course.(a) No student of PG/Adv. PG/PG Diploma/M.Phil, and M.Tech, shall be permitted to move to the next semester, if S/he has a backlog of more than 50% of the courses of a semester concerned at any stage including the previous semesters, subject to a maximum of two courses where the number of the courses in a semester are four and a maximum of three courses where the number of courses in a semester are more than four at any given point of time including the backlogs of previous semester, if any.(b) No student of 5-year Integrated M.A./M.Sc. courses shall be allowed to carry backlogs of more than 50% of the courses of a semester concerned at any stage including the previous semesters subject to a maximum of 5 backlogs at any given point of time including the backlogs of previous semester/s, if any.The qualifying marks for the dissertation/project report / monograph/ research paper in the M.Phil., and M.Tech courses shall be 50%. Students who obtain less than 50% or 'D' grade in the dissertation/monograph/ research paper will be required to rewrite it within such extra time as may be allowed by the School Board concerned on the recommendation of the Supervisor(s).Students who are permitted to appear in supplementary examinations in course/s in accordance with clauses 5(a) above will be required to apply to write the examination concerned in the prescribed form and pay the prescribed examination fee by the date prescribed for the purpose by the University.* (a) A student in order to be eligible for the award of M.A., http://M.Sc., MCA, MBA, MPA, MFA Adv. PG/PG Diploma and Integrated PG Courses must obtain a minimum of 'D' grade in each course. The results of successful candidates will be classified as indicated below on the basis of the CGPA:CGPA of 8.0 and above and upto 10.0 : I Division with DistinctionCGPA of 6.5and above and upto 7.9 : I DivisionCGPA of 5.5 and above and upto 6.4 : II DivisionCGPA of 6.0 : II Division with 55%CGPA of 5.0 and above and upto 5.4 : III Division(b) To satisfactorily complete the programme and qualify for the degree, a student must obtain a minimum CGPA of 5. There should not be any 'F' grades on records of any student for making himself/herself eligible for award of the degree. The division obtained by a student will be entered in his/her provisional cum consolidated grade-sheet and in the degree/diploma certificate.A student in order to be eligible for the award of the M.Phil and M.Tech degree must obtain a minimum of 'D' grade in each of the courses S/he takes as well as in the dissertation / project report/ monograph. The results of the successful candidates will be classified as below:CGPA of 8.0 and above and upto 10.0 : I Division with DistinctionCGPA of 6.5and above and upto 7.9 : I DivisionCGPA of 5.5 and above and upto 6.4 : II DivisionNo III Division in these programmesTo satisfactorily complete the programme and qualify for the M.Phil. / M.Tech. degree, a student must obtain a minimum CGPA of 5.5. There should not be any 'F' grades on records of any student for making himself/herself eligible for award of the degree. The division obtained by a student will be entered in his/her provisional cum consolidated marks sheet and the degree certificate.no student will be permitted to take a supplementary examination a second time in the same course except in the case of one repeating the entire course.(a) No student of Post graduate, Adv. PG/PG Diploma, and Integrated PG courses shall be allowed to continue his/her enrollment for more than two semesters beyond the prescribed duration of the course. While counting the maximum permissible number of semesters before which a student has to complete his programme the 'idle semester' (i.e. the semester he/she has to forgo for want of instructional facility) will not be counted and it should be limited to one semester only. However, such students have to pay the tuition and other fees for the idle semester also. A student may be permitted to discontinue his/her studies for reasons certified as valid by the Head and/or Dean of the School concerned for a period not exceeding two semesters.(b) No student of the M.Phil. and M.Tech. shall be allowed to continue his/her enrollment for more than two semesters beyond the prescribed duration of the course. Also, no student of MCA, M.Phil. and M.Tech. or any other programme having project work will be permitted to work on the dissertation/project unless S/he has completed the course work.Students who are not found eligible to take semester examinations and also those who are not promoted to the next semester of the course may be considered for readmission to the concerned semester of the immediate following academic year. Such students should seek readmission before the commencement of the classes for the concerned semester or within a week of the commencement of the concerned semester if they are appearing in the supplementary examinations. Such students are given an option either to undergo instruction for all the courses of the concerned semester or to undergo instruction in only such courses in which they have failed on condition that the option once exercised will be binding on the student concerned.The answer scripts of the semester examinations shall not be returned to the candidates but may be shown by the instructor at the specific request of the student concerned. The result of the continuous assessment of the students will, however, be communicated to students immediately after the request for reevaluation of the result declared in any course will be entertained. However, every School shall constitute a Grievance Committee consisting of 3 or 4 teachers to examine the complaints received from the students of the School regarding their assessment. Such requests for reconsideration from the students concerned should reach the Dean of the School concerned through the Head of the Department/Centre within 15 days of the announcement of the results of that assessment.Note: If a student is not satisfied after consideration of his grievance concerning evaluation by the School level Committees, the Dean of the School on a request from the student may refer the matter to the Controller of Examinations for getting the paper evaluated by an external examiner, whose evaluation will be final. The fees for external evaluation in all such cases shall be Rs. 50/- per paper.* (a) Students absenting themselves after payment of fees from a regular semester examination may be permitted by the University to appear in a supplementary examination of the semester. The application for permission to appear in a supplementary examination shall be made by the student concerned in the prescribed form. The application along with the prescribed fee should reach the office of the Controller of Examinations through the Department/Centre/School concerned by the date prescribed for this purpose.* (b) Students may opt to audit a course within the Department or outside, provided that he/she satisfies the prerequisites. 75% of attendance is required for an audit course for including the same in the additional grade sheet.