Vivekanand Education Society’s College of Pharmacy (VESCOP), Mumbai has bagged platinum ranking in CII-AICTE industry linked institution survey.
AICTE -CII platinum ranking certificate was received by VESCOP principal Dr. Supriya Shidhaye at the hands of Prof Anil Sahasrabudhe, chairman, AICTE during UK-India Tech Summit.
VESCOP was the only institution to receive platinum ranking in emerging pharmacy institutes category in the entire western zone (Maharashtra, Gujarat, Goa & Rajasthan).
As part of regular quality check, VESCOP had participated in prestigious All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) –Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) best Industry-linked pharmacy institute (degree) survey which was recently conducted at UK-India Tech Summit held at New Delhi. This summit was jointly inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and UK’ PM Theresa May on November 7, 2016.
AICTE–CII, with the aim of fostering industry academia linkages, as well as promoting innovation and entrepreneurship among students, has since 2012 introduced the AICTE-CII annual awards. High levels of parameters are set for judging technical institutes. The yardstick comprised certain critical areas like faculty, placement, curriculum, research/ consultation, infrastructure and governance. Based on the objective scores achieved by each institute, they were shortlisted for second stage of assessment and scrutiny by the jury members from CII & AICTE.
Out of total 890 participating institutes in the category of architecture, pharmacy, management and engineering, 48 institutions were shortlisted for the second level of evaluation. Amongst them, in the category of emerging pharmacy degree institutions, there were 26 participating institutions and 5 of them were shortlisted for second level of evaluation, VESCOP being one of the five institutes. On scrutiny, the institute was placed in the platinum category.
At national level, only 18% of the total participating technical institutions qualified to the platinum category. The national average score for all disciplines was 19.24, the average score of pharmacy discipline was 24.57 whereas VESCOP scored an impressive 51.57. The efforts made by VESCOP in establishing industry-connect was appreciated.
VESCOP was founded in 2007 with a goal to impart quality education in pharmacy. The institute is currently mentoring its eighth batch of B. Pharm. It has also successfully tapped into higher educational avenues of Masters of Pharmacy (Quality Assurance, Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry) and, that of the Ph. D. in the branch of Pharmaceutics.
Over a short span of 9 years, the institute has actively participated in the research and received grants from AICTE, BIRAC and some multinational pharmaceutical industries for the research and development activities.