Impact Analysis of Various Initiatives for Quality Improvement
Quality Assurance in Academics
Our quality assurance cell ensures periodic reforms in curriculum, syllabus and examination pattern based on student performance and analysed feedback from the students, faculty and parents. This is executed in the Academic Council Meeting conducted on a regular basis to maintain the standards and quality of education.
Curriculum innovation
Our Academic Council identifies issues of local, regional and global importance to be implemented across multiple programs and has introduced numerous value added courses, choice based credit system (CBCS), elective credit courses, etc.
MILA - Multiple Interactive Learning Algorithm
Activity based 20 minute lectures ensures active participation from the students and also kindles their creative & reasoning skills as opposed to the conventional lectures. This has been highly effective and improved the student performance.
NEXT and NEET Training Modules
Since there was a drastic dip in the ranking in entrance examinations, these training modules were introduced to improve the results. A sharp increase in the number of students securing high ranks was observed post the modules.
Quality Assurance in Student Welfare
Saveetha Student Council (S-TEAM : Saveetha - Together Everyone Achieves More) is a diverse student body that encompasses students through all learning curves across different disciplines. In order to fill the lacunae in parent teacher interactions as suggested in parent teacher association meetings, weekly update about student performance - Gurupadigam report (Mentor : Mentee ratio - 1:6) is sent to ensure constant updation of information to the parents in order to improve the student productivity in academic and clinical arenas.
Quality Assurance in Research
Undergraduate research has been our brainchild and has helped our university to improve our research and publications in leaps and bounds. Our seed money towards it increased by around 7000+ lakhs in the past five years. Saveetha`s Professional Centre for Innovation and Incubation, “STEPUP” (Science and Technology Incubator) etc are promoted by us to ensure continuous research and development for technology transfer and product development.
Administrative and Technological Reforms
SIMATS also adopted decentralisation and participative management for constituent colleges. Centralized departments had difficulties in reaching out to the needs of each and every student but under the jurisdiction of present format, the count reduces to 10 or 20 students under each department. Hence dual care and attention by both the mentor and the concerned HOD is feasible. Their academic performances and personal grievances also have been addressed better. This was reflected in the improvements in webinars, CDE programs, FDPs attended & conducted and research activity also increased two fold.
Owing to shortcomings of carrying books for classes and during travel, maintaining case records, voluminous journal issues etc, paperless system was introduced in SIMATS which made us the First University in India to shift to a completely to digital record management systems including
-DIAS - Dental Information Archiving Software
-ARMS - Academic Record Management System - an online portal for student and faculty for data management, course creation, academic scores, attendance, internal marks evaluation, formative evaluation, extra-curricular activities, grievances and infrastructure issues can also be reported to the respective authorities.