U.G.C.- ACADEMIC STAFF COLLEGE

  • Objectives
    		• :

    The Academic Staff College, Burdwan University was established in the year 1989 to cater the vital need for improving the status of the teacher as well as to inculcate dynamism in higher education system by providing opportunities for professional and career advancement as proposed in the National Policy on Education, 1986 (NPE). The main objectives of the ASC are to enable the newly appointed teacher to understand the signaficance of education in linkage between education and economic and socio-cultural development and thirdly to acquire and improve basic skills of teaching keeping abrest with the development in subject.

  • Activities
    		• :

    Generally, ASC is entrusted to conduct Orientation Programmes, Refresher Courses and courses or workshop for Principals, Coordinator, Deans, etc. Other than these programmes the ASC sometime conducts Seminars, Computer Awareness Programme for teachers etc. One of the most important activities of the ASC in the university is that it had already published the edited volumes of book which are very useful to the teachers attending the OPs and RCs including two volumes of News Letter ACADEMY.

  • List of the Training/Reading Materials developed by the ASC :
    • Subject   :   Bengali
    Sl. No.Name of the BookName of AuthorsPrice 
    1. 
    Natak Protibad Pragaty
    		-        
    2. 
    Rabindranath : Bangla Sahitya O Sanskriti
    		-        

    Subject   :  
    Sl. No.Name of the BookName of AuthorsPrice 
    1. Contemporary Thoughts in Plant Sciences [ed P.K.Pal], Selaginella P.Beauv.-An Overview. pp.43-48.
    		-        

    Subject   :  
    Sl. No.Name of the BookName of AuthorsPrice 
    1. Contemporary Economics : A Brief Refresher
    		-        

    Subject   :   Education
    Sl. No.Name of the BookName of AuthorsPrice 
    1. Education Environment and Society
    		-        

    Subject   :   English
    Sl. No.Name of the BookName of AuthorsPrice 
    1. Literary Space : Changing Responses
    		-        

    Subject   :   Environmental Science
    Sl. No.Name of the BookName of AuthorsPrice 
    1. Environment: Issues and Challenges
    		-        
    2. Environment : Issues and Challenges
    		-        

    Subject   :   General
    Sl. No.Name of the BookName of AuthorsPrice 
    1. ACADEMY
    		-        
    2. ACADEMY
    		-        
    3. ACADEMY
    		-        
    4. Training Program on Computer Usage
    		-        
    5. Study Materials of Different Orientation & Refresher Courses organized by ASC time to time
    		-        

    Subject   :   Geography
    Sl. No.Name of the BookName of AuthorsPrice 
    1. Contemporary Dimensions in Geography
    		-        

    Subject   :   History
    Sl. No.Name of the BookName of AuthorsPrice 
    1. Intellectual History : A New Understanding
    		-        

    Subject   :   Physics
    Sl. No.Name of the BookName of AuthorsPrice 
    1. Refresher Course in Physics
    		-        

    Subject   :   Political Science
    Sl. No.Name of the BookName of AuthorsPrice 
    1. Perspectives in Political Science
    		-        


  • Schedule of Upcoming Orientation Programmes :

  • Schedule of Upcoming Refresher Courses :

  • Schedule of Short Term Courses :

  • Library Facilities
    		• :

    The college has built-up a small useful library for the use of participants as well as the University teachers, students and research fellow. It has 1020 volumes of books and some periodicals. Newspapers and journals are also procured as per the requirements of the participants of the programmes.

  • Facilities Available
    		• :
    1. Computer
    2. Xerox Machine
    3. VCR
    4. Television
    5. Over-Head Projector
    6. Slide Projector
    7. PA System & Video Recording Facility
    8. Fax
    9. Internet Facility

  • Resource Personnel
    		• :

    Usually expert members in the subject are invited for their valuable deliberation in the courses.

  • Contact Persons
    		• :
    NameDesignationQualification
    Apurba Ratan GhoshDirector(ASC)M.Sc.,Ph.D.  
    Manika ChatterjeeAssistant Director(ASC)B.Ed.,M.Sc.,Ph.D.,D.Sc.  

  • Name of the Director
    		• :Dr.Apurba Ratan Ghosh

  • Address for Correspondence
    		• :
    The University of Burdwan
    Golapbag, Bardhaman - 713 104
    West Bengal, INDIA.
    Phone:0342-2657938, 2558050
    EPABX :0342-2558554/2556566/2556549 Extn.416
    Email  :buasc@rediffmail.com

    For detail information please visit www.burdwanuniversityasc.org
    The University of Burdwan, Rajbati, Bardhaman - 713 104, West Bengal, INDIA.
    Phone : (91)-342-2533913, 2533914, 2533917, 2533918, 2533919
    Fax     : (91)-342-2530452
    Email  : pio@buruniv.ac.in
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