Students and faculties of St. Mary’s College, Manarcaud are encouraged to take part in various courses offered by NPTEL (National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning), which will either enhance the knowledge level in their areas of interest. NPTEL is a project of MHRD initiated by seven Indian Institutes of Technology (Bombay, Delhi, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras, Guwahati and Roorkee) along with the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 2003, to provide quality education to anyone interested in learning from the IITs. NPTEL’s main goal was to create web and video courses in all major branches of engineering and physical sciences at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels and management courses at the postgraduate level. St. Mary’s College, Manarcaud became a NPTEL-local chapter (ID 2799) in May 2019 and since then we see a good number of students and faculties enrolling online certificate courses. Many faculties have completed Swayam-Annual Refresher Programme in Teaching (ARPIT) courses. UGC has notified equivalence of ARPIT as a refresher course for career advancement of faculty (DO Letter No. F.2- 16/2002(PS) Pt.fI.II dated 3rd December 2018).

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