Mangalore, July 13: The inauguration ceremony of the one week Faculty Development Programme on Research Methods for Business Management and Social Sciences organised by the St Aloysius Institution of Management and Information technology, St Aloysius College began on Monday, July 11.
Rev. Fr. Swebert D'silva S.J. -Principal, St Aloysius College, Dr A.M. Narahari- Registrar, St Aloysius College, Rev. Fr. Denzil Lobo S.J- Director AMIT , Rev. Dr. Oswald Mascarenhas S.J- Chairman, AIMIT (MBA ), Dr Sridhar Dean (Research), Dr Rowena Wright, Dean(Academics) and Mr Girish -Faculty Coordinator of the FDP were present at the programme. The programme was attended by more than 30 participants from various institutions around the country. Dr Rowena Wright compered the programme.
The Inauguration Ceremony began with a prayer sung by the Faculty members of the MBA Department followed by a welcome address by MS. Sumitha Achar – Joint Coordinator of the FDP Programme.
Dr Sridhar then gave an overview to the participants on the preparation for such a programme and explained in brief the topics to be covered in this one week FDP in a nutshell. He also invited suggestions from the participants for organising such programmes and workshops in the future.
Rev. Fr. Swebert D'silva S.J congratulated the Department of MBA for its tremendous growth from its inception and for organising several such programmes which are indeed contributing toward academic growth. He also stressed on how the college has been imparting quality education with a strong base of ethical and moral values among students for over a century.
Dr A.M. Narahari gave his best wishes to the organisers of the programme and made it clear through his speech as on how research would contribute towards increased Industry – Academic integration.
The programme then continued with a brief introduction given by Rev. Dr. Oswald Mascarenhas S.J on “growth of research.” He highlighted the fact that research today has not just remained merely a number crunching activity but has grown from Quantitative Data Analysis to Qualitative one over the past few decades.
The Presidential remarks were made by Rev. Fr. Denzil Lobo S.J. who stated on how Jesuit Education which has been managing Educational Institutions over four hundred years has been key promoters of research. He also put forth the idea of how the Institution is working hard towards organising many more programmes of academic and research importance.
The Inauguration ceremony concluded with a vote of thanks speech by Mr. Girish M who thanked the guest, participants, teaching and non- teaching staff for their contributions toward making this programme a success reality.
This FDP programme will include deliberations on various research topics like Research Methods, Ethics in Research, Research Design and Sampling, Literature review: types, process , Identifying Research Gap, Framing Research Questions, What Statistics can and cannot do?, validating the research Study, Research tools and Scales of Measurement, overview of descriptive Statistics, Theory of Probability, overview of inferential Statistics and Practical sessions on Statistical Techniques, Non- Parametric Tests, Multivariate Data Analysis, Conjoint Analysis, Basis of Qualitative Research, Qualitative Data Analysis, Basis of Data Envelopment Analysis and many more interactive sessions.
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