St Mary’s Technical Campus Kolkata

Dr. Madhuri Bhattacharya is the Vice-Principal at St Mary’s Technical Campus Kolkata. She is an academician par excellence and preaches the importance of continuous learning to the students. She takes every challenge as an opportunity to learn and create a benchmark out of it. Read here what she has to say in her interview. 

Have you introduced any new programs at your college? Please give us a brief highlight of the same?

“This Year (2020-21) we have started all emerging Courses in B.Tech, in Diploma and in MBA”

We have introduced many emerging and tp rating courses to help and guide our students. As we know India is an emerging market and the need to introduce new fields to cope up with the global competition is mandatory. Thus, these courses will provide relevant exposure and help our students to refine their basics and develop a deep understanding of technology. The following are the courses which we have inducted in our curriculum:

B.tech Courses

  • Artificial Intelligence and Data Science
  • CSE - Data Science- Data Science is one of the most demanding fields in the present scenario. According to the various statistics available on the Internet, there are predictions that Data Science is going to find a great demand for jobs in the coming years.
  • CSE- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning- Machine Learning is the specialisation which is presently very demanding among the students. Considering the global market, students are now shifting towards these specialisations thinking about building their career prospects in these.
  • Civil Engineering

MBA Courses

  • Big Data Analytics-. Providing MBA in Big data analytics helps us to produce students, having complete knowledge of the management and the technical aspects. They can provide assistance to industries in various aspects along with the managemental issues.
  • Digital Marketing- Today, almost every industry is trying to focus on digital marketing. Considering the benefits and the future prospects in digital marketing, students are highly interested in pursuing MBA in Digital marketing.

In Diploma courses, we have web designing, computer science and engineering, civil engineering, electrical engineering, and mechanical engineering.In HMCT, we provide Hospitality and Tourism Administration. For B.tech Lateral Entry, we have inducted Mechanical, Civil, Electrical and Electronics, and Computer Science Engineering. 

Do you have any extracurricular activities/ programs to enhance the skills of the students or expose them to the real world challenges?

“Our institute has initiated various types of clubs and competitions to enhance student engagement”

Multiple types of exercises like debate competitions, group discussion, dance club, inter-college competitions provide the students with better exposure to real-world problems. Students are offered various opportunities to showcase their skills apart from academics. We have a plan to go for soft skill development programs after softening of the pandemic situation.

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In these hard times of COVID-19 situation, how are you engaging your students and how are you getting new admissions?

“In these hard and unprecedented times we are leveraging the online and digital resources”

We have purchased licenses from Microsoft Teams, and all our classes, assignments, group discussion, meeting, grand viva all are smoothly taking place online. Students are regularly contacted through different modes by our teams, to get them engaged in our various new activities. During this pandemic time, the style of the education system has changed entirely. Thus, we regularly keep in touch with our students to help them whenever and wherever necessary. For the smooth admission process, we have taken the aid of both online and offline mediums. 

“We have 8 Engineering colleges under St. Mary’s Group. For placement, we have a centralized placement cell which takes care of all the colleges. And considering the placement statistics of our college, we have an excellent placement record, and we provide them with quality students.”

What is your philosophy of leadership? How would you describe your leadership style?

“I assure that the energy of all the people involved is directed towards a common goal”

Educational leadership is the process of enlisting and guiding the talents and energies of teachers and students toward achieving common educational aims. Being a vice-principal cum leader, it is my responsibility to guide and direct the individuals in an appropriate manner towards the implementation of their tasks and functions. Also, I have to provide solutions to various problems and hindrances which may occur. I make sure to take effective decisions and create amiable environmental conditions, which would facilitate the achievement of the goal.

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What are some challenges you see for education in India?

“There are numerous possibilities and outcomes based solutions for every problem”

I always try to learn from every challenge of life. I believe everyone should come up with a positive solution and explore to overcome the problems. As the pandemic intensified, our management immediately planned to start all the courses in emerging areas as per the AICTE report. It helped us to secure our new generation students. There may be N number of challenges, but in St Mary’s we always try to overcome every challenge. 

And talking about higher education challenges, there is a lack of motivation among the students for higher education. They limit themselves after certain education and ignore the benefits of higher education. Some of them don’t know the benefits of higher education and those who know, they also limit themselves for higher education.