Institutional Best Practices

Best Practice I: Floral Arrangements

Title of the Practice: Floral Arrangements — training in decoration, beautification, and bouquet-making, undertaken by the Women Empowerment Cell / Eco Club.

1. Goal: To make women students aware of home decoration, beautification and bouquet-making — skills intended to remain useful for life, create an aesthetic sense in their households, and offer an opportunity to develop skills for commercial purposes.

2. The Context: Since many students come from rural backgrounds, they may not have prior exposure to decoration and housekeeping practices more commonly associated with urban settings. As today’s students are tomorrow’s homemakers, the College decided to train women students in floral arrangement so they could benefit from the skill in future.

3. Practice: Women students collected various types of flowers, both wild and garden-grown, from their surroundings. Women faculty of the Women Empowerment Cell / Eco Club taught them techniques of floral arrangement and bouquet-making. These skills were then applied when students prepared floral arrangements for seminars, workshops and other functions held at the institution.

4. Evidence of Success: Students remained enthusiastic throughout the training period. All floral arrangements at institutional functions, and bouquets handed to dignitaries, were prepared by the students, drawing appreciation from attendees.

5. Problems Encountered and Resources Required: Students were initially slow to learn, given limited prior exposure to a skill more traditionally associated with urban areas. With patience and practice, they successfully developed floral arrangement skills.

Note: This is one of the efforts of the Women Empowerment Cell to teach a dignified, commercially useful skill to women students.

Best Practice II: Endowment / Proficiency Prizes

Title of the Practice: Endowment / Proficiency Prizes.

1. Goal: To allow eligible students to turn opportunity into action and make the best use of their time to challenge themselves and excel.

2. The Context: When a striving student faces a financial or logistical obstacle, the fund enables a strategic investment that helps the student move forward efficiently and productively.

3. The Practice: Government Degree College, Nagari announces Endowment / Proficiency Prizes every year for students across academic subjects. Two endowment prizes are instituted by the Department of English and one by the Department of Commerce; proficiency prizes are contributed by faculty members across the College, including the Principal.

4. Evidence of Success: Students remain enthusiastic throughout the academic year, striving to earn Endowment / Proficiency Prizes. This has driven year-on-year improvement in student performance and fostered healthy competition.

5. Problems Encountered and Resources Required: Students were initially less engaged academically. Activities such as seminars, quizzes, and above all the Endowment / Proficiency Prizes, helped make them active and motivated.