Capacity Building and Skill Enhancement Initiatives

SOFT SKILLS

St. Aloysius College Edathua, organizes various programmes for developing soft skills among the students and staff with a view to create a group of efficient and dedicated individuals with excellent personal, interpersonal and social attributes. Soft skills comprise people skills, social skills, communication skills, character or personality traits, social intelligence and emotional intelligence quotients that enable people to navigate their environment, perform well, and achieve their goals. A soft skill is a personal attribute that supports situational awareness and enhances an individual’s ability to get a job done. The programmes organized for the development of soft skills are;

• Job Training Programmes
• Exemplar Contest
• E-Samvijnan
• Career Guidance Classes
• Civil Service Training
• Training Programme for improving learning skills and interview skills
• Job Fair

LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION SKILLS

The College has initiated many programmes to enhance communication skills in students.

Language Lab
A separate language lab is functioning in the college where computers, audio-visual facilities and necessary softwares are installed and made available to the students. Programmes like ’Listening and Speaking Exercises’ and ‘Learning English through Movies’ are organized with the help of the language lab.

RELP
Rural English Literacy Programme; Open School for Better English, is a certificate course is offered to students under the guidance of the Department of English.

Inter Collegiate Literary Fests
Various literary competitions are conducted annually by the Department of English and Debate Club of the college to enhance the creativity and language skills of the students.

LIFE SKILLS

Yoga
The college celebrates the International Yoga Day every year with much enthusiasm and pride. Various programmes including Yoga classes, Yoga Day celebration, Yoga demonstration etc are regularly conducted in the college. We have trained Yoga experts as faculty members and they coordinate the programmes.
Physical Fitness
The college has a remarkable tradition in sports & games with Arjuna Awardees as our alumni. We have good sports infrastructure facilities which are open to our students. Some of the facilities include Outdoor Volleyball Court, Playgrounds, Olympic standard swimming pool. Apart from this, various other training programmes like, Self Defense Training and Taekwondo Training Programmes are arranged for the students.

ICT/ COMPUTING SKILLS

The College uses a blended mode of curriculum delivery where ICT facilities are an essential part. Each teaching department has high-speed internet connectivity, and Wi-Fi facilities are made available to the teachers, supporting staff and the students. The College uses G-Suite for Education and has provided individual personal ids to all staff and students.

To ensure e-literacy to all students a programme named “E-Samvijnan” is designed and implemented in the institution. The Departments organizes various certificate courses and training programmes where students can learn the use of various professional software outside their academic curriculum. Some of the software taught in certificate course are

• MATLAB
• LaTex
• Origin