Distinctiveness
Holistic Development of Students Through Extension and Outreach Activities
The Institute focuses keenly on the holistic development of students and provides them with every opportunity and resource to facilitate their holistic development. This is one of the most distinctive features the Institute, whose details are given below in brief.
Shri Gnanambica Degree Collegewas established in the year 1999 under the aegis of Shri Devarshi Educational Society in an impressive ambience under the able stewardship of Dr. Ratakonda Guru Prasad, Secretary and Correspondent.
Holistic Development of Students: Initiated with a humble strength of 70, as of now after successful completion of Twenty-three years of Academic Excellence, Shri Gnanambica Degree College is totally committed to cater the educational needs of students, in letter and spirit.The College at present has a strength more than 2800 that tends to grow year after year. The College has well ventilated and spacious class rooms.
The institute has been accredited by An ISO 50001- 2011, 9001-2015, 14001-2015 certified organization, Shri Gnanambica Degree College mainly aims at catering the academic needs of the students of Madanapalle.
As visible from vision and mission statements, the institute has been focusing on the holistic development of students while aiming at excellence in education and meeting the quality standards set by accrediting and regulatory bodies.
NAAC while laying utmost importance of quality in education, while prescribing parameters for outcome-based education finally led to the holistic development of the students. And so, the student centric activities at the institute are designed for achieving holistic development of the students. It has four components, namely, the intellectual, social, physical, and emotional developments.
1.Intellectual development: The institute, implements university curriculum through well planned and effective teaching learning activities blended with latest pedagogy approaches.
2.Social development: The social skills are nurtured through various activities conducted by the social clubs at the institute.Exposure to social issues and working on probable solutions: The students are exposed to the diverse social structure and their issues, particularly in the neighbouring areas, through the National Service Schemeimplemented at the Institute, in collaboration with the SVU.
3.Physical development: The institute promotes physical activities among the students to cultivate many important skills such as physical fitness, team spirit, confidence, decision making, mental strength, etc. of the students. Each year, the institute organizes annual sports events for the students comprising of various sports such as cricket, volleyball, throw ball, kabaddi, chess, carom, etc.
4.Emotional development: Emotional health of the students is given apt attention at the institute. The mentor-mentee system is in place that ensures the students’ contact with faculty at least once every two weeks. During these meetings, students can discuss their academics as well as personal problems with the faculty. Appropriate counselling is provided by the mentor-faculty to the students.
