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3. Some members of the faculty have not yet been successful in acquiring NET/K-SET
qualifications despite sincere efforts.
4. We have only been partially successful in following up on our alumni and keeping track of
their postgraduation careers. This is a situation that we are determined to rectify in the coming
year.
Opportunities--
1. There are many research opportunities that we can exploit as a department.
2. JEAN – Joseph‘s English Alumni Network as a possible way of providing support to our
alumni who have entered the teaching profession. There is also good potential in JEAN for
training our alumni (who are teachers) for NET/K-SET
3. Lately, we have had good interactions with foreign faculty/writers and this is an avenue
which we must explore more energetically with a view to forging new international
partnerships.
4. From this year onwards we have very promising opportunities in our Materials Production
Centre and Language Learning Facility to produce innovative language learning packages
which we can even share with other institutions.
5. We are beginning to see promising opportunities of collaboration with noted writers and
theatre artists specifically for our certificate course offerings.
Challenges
1. The reading habit, very vital for any in-depth intellectual growth, is now beginning to
decline amongst students.
2. For the amount of work, we are gravely understaffed. Most teachers do more than are
expected according to the norms set by the UGC/DCE.
3. Grant- in- aid as adequate recompense for intellectual and academic work delivered is being
steadily withdrawn.
4. Growing number of private universities.
5. Rising per capita cost of higher education.
39. Future plans of the department.
The Department has applied for Research Centre status to Bangalore University.
We hope to set up a Centre for Research into World Literatures. The department hopes to
begin a research journal in the field over the next few years.
Our ongoing Materials Production Centre project will, on completion, aid us in delivering a
syllabus that moves beyond current reading and writing goals to empowering students with
multiliteracy, and in enabling differently-abled students with language skills.

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