The document provides information on the following: 1) It summarizes a workshop on "Multimedia Product Development" conducted at Wisdom Women's College with 100 students and faculty participating. 2) It mentions the results of the December 2018 NTA UGC NET exam and upcoming department events. 3) The main article discusses issues in the education system like universities offering many courses to meet demand, franchising of programs, and students choosing degrees for jobs over interest. 4) It provides brief summaries of campus events like tech fests and village visits held by different colleges.

1. in this issue >>>
May this year give you the opportunity
to follow your dreams. Happy New
Year!. We think that there is endless
time to live but we never know which
moment is last. So share, care, love,
and celebrate every moment of life, for
us celebrations are gathering of
friends; this issue, we have a special
section for Christmas celebrations in
Campuses. Every great achievement is
a small peak in the mountain range of
contributions, I Congratulate all our
friends who crack the NET this time.
J A N U A R Y 2 0 1 9Volume II, issue 6
P A G E 1
Mrs. Rajapriya C. Assistant professor, Department of computer sci-
ence, Sri Muthukumaran arts and science college, Mangadu, Chennai
Widsom Women’s College of arts and Science, Annakkoor, Cheyyar
Taluk, Thiruvannamalai District, Department of Computer Applica-
tion and Computer Science conducted a One day National level
workshop on the title “Multimedia Product Development”. About 100
students and Faculties from various colleges participated.
 NTA UGC NET DEC 2018 Results
 Department Events
 Article: Education: A place where peb-
bles are polished and diamonds are
dimmed
 Christmas Celebrations at campuses
 Book Review
 Anniyappa Lions Club Book Bank
Ms. S.Bhuvaneswari, Asst.Professor, Dept. of Computer Sci-
ence, Dhanraj Baid Jain College, Thoraipakkam.
Mrs.. L.M.Santhi M.Sc., M.Phil., SET.,NET., HOD, PG Department
of Information Technology, KRMMC
Ms. T. Sree Kala, M.Sc.,M.Phil., NET.,(Ph.D), AP, School of Com-
puting Sciences, VISTAS, Pallavaram, Chennai.
Ms. Vasavi.J, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Ap-
plications, SRM IST, Kattankulathur
Guru Nanak College (BCA) conducted an Inter-collegiate
“Techno Cultural Fest-DO’IT’19” on 08.01.2019. 649 students
from 47 colleges and universities, out of which 2 visually im-
paired colleges participated

2. P A G E 2
C O M P U T E R S C I E N C E F A C U L T Y V O L U M E I 1 , I S S U E 6
Education: A place where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed
The (Heart) Breaking News...
It seems at recent times, Government too being influenced by
Medias and channels
for giving Breaking
News. The recent GO
about the validity of
those popular 33 courses (most of them of Computer Science
streams) from various State Universities for Government Jobs,
created panic among those who graduated with those degrees.
Rationale behind these issue..
People go beyond glamorous degrees...
 Need an status identity in this world driven by imagi-
nary credits..
 To qualify themselves for the Government jobs
Supply based upon the demand
Universities including State universities capital-
ised on these human desire, used it as an opportu-
nity and created an eco system to cater these de-
mands by advertising degrees with fancy names,
on various forms such as.. Distance Education, Off
campus programs, Virtual Classrooms, On-line
programs.. etc.
To meet the overwhelm demand with their available limited
resources, they started following the corporate models like:
Franchises, Private Study centres, Joint ventures, Study
(Business) partners.
To make use of these business opportunities, the non perform-
ing educational institutions grab these offers to make use of
their unutilised resources such as Human Resources and infra-
structure for the little revenue given by the universities.
Bad to worst...
These situations worsen, when they find an opportunity to
exploit those students by allowing them to violate the basic
norms such as attendance, internal marks, submission of as-
signments, practical marks, record submission, etc.
Win-Win Model
It was a Win-Win business model for all the stake holders, such
as Universities, Franchise centres and Students
Universities: It was a quick and effort less revenue generating
strategy along with grabbing the market share in this sector,
usually the profit share among those franchise centres will be
anywhere between 60:40 to 80:20. And most of the overheads
will be borne by those franchises. The universities major role
will be Student enrolment, Issuing study materials, Conducting
of the examination, evaluation, result declaration and issuing
the degrees.
Franchise centres: It becomes a Status symbol for the Fran-
chises, there are centres.. conduct their own certificate and di-
ploma courses giving an impression that they are the Univer-
sity affiliated centre. Beyond that, they can make use of their
unutilised resources, even the share given by the university is
very meagre, still they prefer, because they devised a New
Business model devised for revenue generating mechanisms
from students for easing the student’s academic burdens such
as: Attendance, Assignment, Practical classes, Records, Project
work etc.
This was a new Business model, emerged as a minimum effort,
risk free, low cost, maximum profit in a short time.
Students: It will be much cost effective process and it is a
greater advantage for students, to get an effortless, quick de-
gree from a recognised university, without affecting their per-
sonnel and professional commitments.
Theory of Supply Demand
Taking the Demand supply theory, the supply usually gets in-
crease, when there is an increase in demand. It has happened
here… The university has started increasing its courses whenever
they find there is an increase in student’s enrolment and in one
point of time they gone to the extreme by adopting the “Buy one
Get one” model by offering Dual Degree, Double Degree and
Integrated PG courses. We have seen one of our State University
have come out with 21 different MBA programs. The unfortunate,
yet truly exciting thing about our life is that there is no core cur-
riculum. The entire place is an elective.
The Blaming Game...
In this process, all the three stakeholders
are Universities, Franchise centres and
students are equally responsible. .... it is no
point in blaming only
the universities... students
are also equally responsible to this present
scenario..Today’s Graduates differ from their
previous generations in many ways, in par-
ticular they brought up in the culture of
Google, Wikipedia and Ctrl C + V. Most
Successful people will certainly accept, that in their campus life,
their greatest lessons came from outside the classrooms and their
learning’s doesn’t stop just because they received a degree which is
just “a piece of paper”, your degree is nothing but a passport
which is just an identity, but you need the Knowledge which is the
real visa to travel in your life, the end is often the beginning. The
beautiful thing about knowledge is nobody can take it away from
you.
Excuses...
Students often give an excuses that ”we don’t have enough time”,
but you have exactly the same number of hours per day that were
given to Bill Gates of Microsoft, Steve Jobs of Apple, Jack Ma of
Alibaba and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook. The most common
factor of all these successful people was their academic failure and
the take away from them is “You can fail at what you don’t want,
so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love, if op-
portunity doesn’t knock, build a door and go the extra mile, be-
cause it’s never crowded.”
Following the Trend…
Students have a tendency to choose their carrier options by the
current industry trends instead of their core interest... We have
seen these trends in recent times.. Medicine, Engineering educa-
tion, Teacher Education, Commerce & Management, Hotel & Hos-
pital Management, Distance/Online Courses. And we use to jus-
tify it has “Need based education”, at present we can see a wave
towards: UPSC and TNPSC for government jobs, NET and TET for
Teaching Professions, NEET fever around the country for Medical
Education..... and the story continues...
Take away: Follow your heart…
Do not follow where the path may lead, go instead, where there is
no path and leave a track, otherwise very soon you will be more
disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones
who did it, so come out of the safe zone, you have brains in your
head, you have feet in your shoes, you can push yourself in any
direction you choose, you’re on your own, and you know what
you know, you are the person who’ll decide where to go, have the
courage to follow your heart and intuition to explore, dream and
discover because difficult roads often lead to beautiful destina-
tions. The direction in which education starts a man will determine
his future since, true education is the kindling of a flame, not just
filling of a vessel and its core function is to teach one to think in-
tensively and to think critically.
Dr. C.V. Suresh Babu
Every time you point a
finger in scorn—there are 3
remaining fingers pointing
right back at you

3. @ Annai Veilankanni
C O M P U T E R S C I E N C E F A C U L T Y V O L U M E I 1 , I S S U E 6
@ Annai Violet
@CTTE
@AnnaAdarsh

4. For Previous issues of our Newsletters visit: https://www.slideshare.net/anniyappa
Lions Club of Chennai
Elite Stars (District 324
A1) has initiated a per-
manent project to serve
“Economically weaker
section” students by
sponsoring them for
their Academic books
for their entire course
with association with
Anniyappa Publications.
C O M P U T E R S C I E N C E F A C U L T Y V O L U M E I 1 , I S S U E 6
Book Review
Prof. K. Gurumoorthy,
M.C.A.,M.Phil.,(Ph.D).
Department of Comp. Sc.
D.R.B.C.C.C. HINDU College
Pattabiram, Chennai-72
P A G E 4
Chevalier T.Thomas Elizabeth College for Women organ-
ised a Village visit to Ariyapakkam Village,Ellapuram
Block, Thiruvallur District as a part of Unnath Bharat
Abiyan on December 8, 2018
I. You can do it yourself” series:
1. Writing Journal Papers
2. Doing Project
3. Self Learning
II FDP’s
1. Teacher—Do’s and Don’ts
2. Personalized Teaching
3. Teaching Beyond Syllabus
4. Project Based Teaching
5. Teaching with Technology
6. My Teacher—student’s
perspective
7. Challenge the Challenge—A Road Map UGC
NET
8. Once upon a time long long ago-
Teaching through stories
9. From Guru to Teacher, Trainer, Coach,
Mentor — Channing role of a Modern
Teacher
III SEP—Student Empowerment
Programs:
1. I am ready for University Exam
2. 5 units in 150 minutes
3. After UG what NEXT…
4. Activity Based Learning
IV Skill Development Programs
1. Document Management System through
Word processor
2. Effective Presentation
3. Build your own website
4. Decision Making through Spread sheet
5. Data Analysis through Spread Sheet
6. Problem solving using C / C++ / Java
7. Story, Screenplay, Dialogue and Direction —
AnnaiVeilankanni
College