Objectives: This practice aims to facilitate a breeding ground for academic excellence and creativity and to create an innovative mindset among the students.
Context: The best practices of the college are developed in tune with the mission of the college, which is to strive for academic excellence, creativity, and social commitment to the citizens. Vidyalankar is a Sanskrit word for academic excellence.
The Practice: Every year, the college organizes more than 100 programmes, such as seminars, workshops, invited talks etc., in frontier areas to expose the students to new heights of information and knowledge. The programmes like Student seminars, Mathematical problem contests, department-level monthly meetings, debates, and project works help them to be critical thinkers. Students have every opportunity to show up and enhance their talents through various creative activities, such as Exhibitions, Skill development programmes, short filmmaking and the publication of magazines. All departments and the college union publishes magazines every year. The departments also provide various certificate/add-on courses to the students. Meanwhile, they gain valuable lessons through various social activities and services, with the prime objective of academic excellence. The Arabic Department is publishing a research journal called Raihan. The college provides opportunities for the students to participate in Young Innovators Programme (YIP) by presenting ideas. Kerala Government has Sanctioned an Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre (IEDC) at the college under the Kerala start-up mission. The college has three incubation centres. The college has been granted the UGC-funded STRIDE Project (Component-1) titled "Adaptive Speech Recognition for Speech Defects in Malayalam Language." This significant achievement has provided students with a unique opportunity to immerse themselves in a major research ambience right within their campus.
Evidence of Success: Every year a significant fraction of students are opting higher studies. Most of them are getting admission to prestigious institutions in India. Many of our alums are researching at various top-ranked universities worldwide and even at NASA. Our alums work as scientists in India's most prestigious organizations, such as ISRO and DRDO.
Problems Encountered and Resources Required: Wayanad, one of India's backward districts, needs more facilities in all areas, including the educational sector. The region's availability of resource persons, research centres, etc., is significantly less.
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