HiEd Log

 Faculty blogs serve a number of purposes.  The following is an attempt to argue why and how blogs can help the faculty members of HEIs improve their professional stature and teacher profile in various ways. 1. Writing is a key communicative and professional skill. It is very common to come across faculty members who struggle to communicate with clarity, conviction and correctness whether it be in English or in mother tongue. Whatever be the causes which led to this state of affairs, a blog - personal or an institutional one - can help improve this skill. If a couple of hours can be set apart each week for this purpose, it will lead not only to improving the writing skill, but it will also help the teacher leave behind a body of writing which could be cured into more serious works later. A couple of dedicated hours for the blog can be periods of self training too. Starting small with incremental writing can help one slowly master the fundamentals, eliminate the syntactic error...

Inaugural ceremonies are (un)avoidable often. Is it because, if an event, even while it is in-house, if it is not inaugurated, it can not be deemed to have begun? If it is a necessity, why are the institutions hell bent on making it as long and as boring as possible? Why are the office bearers of the committees which run the colleges, who double as guests / chief guests for in-house events, take it unprofessionally and make it fail in meeting the objective? Since this is a regular feature of the events in many institutions, not just HEIs, I thought I will scribble why we need to do away with the inaugural ceremonies so that it doesnt prey into and work against what is being inaugurated.  1. Inaugural ceremonies of in-house programmes are invariably delayed, often thanks to the chief guest, guest or a local office bearer of the college committee. It could also be administrator, director, coordinator, academic advisor as they come in multiple guises! This forces the programme to run ...