Brief Introduction to the Institute
Southwestern State College (SWSC) is promoted by a team of Academicians, Researchers, Planners, and
Professionals at national and international levels. This college aims to provide quality education in
Science, Management, and Humanities at both undergraduate and graduate levels in Nepal. Being proud
of its own quality products and achievements, the college is now in collaboration with national and
international partners. SWSC is ISO 9001:2008 QMS certified college. Moreover, it has joined its hands
with London Chamber of Commerce & Industry-LCCIUK, the World‘s Largest Vocational training
awarding body, to provide internationally recognized and practical training programs to its students. At
present, the college is running Bachelor of Business Studies (BBS) and Bachelor in Arts (BA), Master in
Business Studies (MBS) courses affiliated to Tribhuvan University (TU). There is also the Bachelor in
Business Administration (BBA) program at this college affiliated to Purvanchal University whis has been
run in different location. SWSC also facilitate PhD program through South Western Centre for PhD
studies from the same premises. Similarly, the College has been running +2 program in Science,
Management and Humanities in affiliation with Higher Secondary Education Board (HSEB). This college
has been running a pre-primary to the secondary school. The promoters, from different walks of life and
with years of experiences in academic field as well as various professions are managing the college. Since
its inception, it has been conceived to promote the prospectus of qualitative and practical education as
well as to impart a value based education. Its major aim is to develop socially responsive, creative, and
result oriented professionals in order to meet global challenges. Southwestern State College (SWSC),
located ideally in close proximity to Ring Road (Basundhara, Kathmandu), turns out to be a quite study
area, reflecting to welcoming positive and secure academic center. It has cover up 38,332 sq. ft. areas at
its main premises. It places considerable emphasis giving upon the student‘s valuable learning
experiences and providing great opportunities to enjoy excellence and success in their academic pursuit.
The college integrates the different activities such as writing, Resource Centre, the Information
Commons, and Educational Technology Services into curricular and co-curricular learning.
This academy run bachelor in humanities and management affiliated to Tribhuvan
The college is also the member of different associations like Management Association of Nepal, HISSAN
etc. It is ISO 9001:2008 certified college as BM TRADA Certification was awarded on July, 2011 with
certificate number 8446. The regular audit by ISO has put the whole college team in alert to deliver the
quality services. This college has started the social relationship with several non-governmental
organizations where its student are engaged on different activities as intern and social work trainee.
Students particularly enrolled in humanities stream are been benefited from the exposure by these NGOs
in community development and social work activities. Southwestern Academic Research Centre
(SWARC), Southwestern Cooperative and South Western State School are three different wings of this
college which run autonomously with their own legal status.
Highlights of major activities and achievements
SWSC is involved in diverse activities both academic and non academic in nature. Those activities are
having a good impact in the society. SWSC also have many achievements in those initiatives. Some of the
major initiatives/activities are highlighted below.
ACADEMIC
Subject wise Interaction Programs: SWSC organized subject wise interaction programs on Mathematics,
Hotel Management, Biology, Physics, Nepali and English. Objectives of these programs were to share the
teaching experiences particularly the best practices among the faculty members from several higher
education institutions. The programs were designed to review the existing syllabus and to discuss about
the loopholes for strengthening ongoing teaching - learning methodology. The one day interaction
program for each subjects were inaugurated by senior educationists, experts from the respective subjects
and subject committee members and their representatives from Higher Secondary Education Board and
Tribhuvan University.
District Level Seminar cum Training: Two days training coordinated by Mr. Hari Singh K.C. VicePrincipal of SWSC was held in each district that was organized jointly by SWSC, Swiss Contact, and
PABSON of Palpa, Dhading and Lamjung district. Training was focused on pedagogical basics, teaching
methods, time management and lesson plan, motivation, good teachers – good teaching, management and
leadership, school development and quality control, assessments as part of the quality control, observation
and evaluation of classes, Switzerland and its education system. There were more than 180 participants
benefitted from various schools including principals, vice-principals, coordinators, and teachers from this
program. Mr. Urs Frey, Senior expert, Swiss Contact Switzerland, was resource person and the program.
Training to School Teachers and Management Personnel: A 5 days training on School Development and
Management was held in Fluorescent Higher Secondary School where 69 teachers from the same school
participated including school Principal and management team. The training was coordinated by 54
Southwestern State College and Mr. Urs Frey -Senior Expert- Swiss Contact, Switzerland, as a resource
person.
Seminar by USEF-Nepal: U.S. Educational Foundation in Nepal, USEF-Nepal (also known as the
Fulbright Commission) has been conducting seminar programs to provide the information and advice on
U.S. higher education at SWSC. Resource persons from Education in USA Advising Center, U.S.
Educational Foundation in Nepal deliver the seminars to the students.
Seminar to Students: SWSC organizes the seminars inviting experts from different sectors for the
exposure to its students. Vision, Goal Setting, Team building, Time Management, Leadership Skill, Life
Skill management etc are some selected topics for these seminars. Sometimes, College requests its faculty
members for the seminars whereas out sourced external experts and organizations in some cases
depending upon the demands.
Visiting Faculty: SWSC has provisioned the visiting faculties. For instance Silvia Reist - Biology Teacher
of Science from Switzerland Visited the College from 22 November to 01 December 2012.for the purpose
of exchange programs of faculty members and students between SWSC and Kantonsschule Beromunster
School, Switzerland.
Examination Process: There is a practice of re-exam for those students who failed in the regular exams.
Failed students are compelled to appear the re-exam until they pass in particular subjects.
PUBLICATIONS
Journal of Advanced Academic Research (JAAR): Southwestern Centre for PhD studies has started
publishing the peer reviewed journal ―Journal of Advanced Academic Research (JAAR) since early
2014. Research papers from PhD scholars by empirical evidences are published in the journal. Till now,
three issues of JAAR has been published and next is under review.
Southwestern Education Hub: SWSC publishes the Southwestern Education Hub on quarterly basis.
Research based articles related to education are prioritized for this publication however, short articles on
different themes has been included in previous issues. Till date, seven issues has been published.
Newsletter: The College regularly publishes the monthly newspaper including the news, ongoing
activities and short articles by students.
CONFERENCE
International Conference: Nepal Library Association in collaboration with SWSC organized the
International Conference on Library and Knowledge Management on 30-31 Dec, 2012 at Southwestern
State College. The program was inaugurated by Chief Guest Prof. Dr. Hira Bahadur Maharjan, ViceChancellor, Tribhuvan University. This program was launched under the kind guidance of President of
Nepal Library Association Mr. Prakash Thapa.
TRAINING, SEMINAR AND WORKSHOP
Research Related Training: Both Southwestern State College (SWSC) and Southwestern Academic
Research Center (SWARC) jointly organized the mentioned seminar to different school principals, viceprincipals, coordinators and research students as well. The seminar was conducted in Kathmandu valley
as well as out of the valley. Academic Research Methodology, Teaching and Research Synergy, Prerequisites of Research, M-Phil Leading to PhD, Topics selection of Research etc were the topics in these
trainings. Southwestern Academic Research Center (SWARC) conducted a research program to BBS
students entitled on "Study on Students College Selection Criteria‖ which was focused on schools, 55
colleges and parents/guardians. All students were oriented and guided by Dr. Jay Hari Raj PandeyChairperson of SWARC.
ISO Awareness cum UGC-QAA Seminar: SWSC organized awareness training about International
Organization for Standardization (ISO) on 14 June, 2012. The program was organized to provide the
details about the ISO to faulty members of the college. Resource persons of this program were Janardan
Ghimire and Dr. A. B. Karna. On the very day, the self study report team for the QAA to UGC organized
the seminar to deliver the information about Quality Assurance and Accreditation (QAA) by University
Grants Commission Nepal. Kamal Devkota, Indra Prasad Joshi and Suman Neupane explained about the
procedure, importance and usefulness of QAA certification to the college.
Training by LCCI: London Chamber of Commerce & Industry (LCCI) conducted 30 credit hours program
which focused on ―Personal Development‖ to management students which was held from 27th
December 2011 to 18th January 2012 at SWSC.
Southwestern Science Exhibition and Career in Management: SWSC organizes the Southwestern Science
Exhibition & Career in Management on yearly basis since last three years. Last expo was inaugurated by
Rt. Honorable Vice-President Paramananda Jha and the program was concluded by then Minister of
Science & Technology, Kalpana Dhamala. The exhibition was organized to provide the information about
modern inventions made by students in the field of Science & Technology and Management, their
achievements and expediency and education system of different colleges and schools. Many schools,
colleges, research centers and The Embassy of United States of America to Nepal were participated in
order to make grand success the exhibition.
Digital Social Work and Street Mapping: SWSC and the consultants from World Bank jointly organized
an Open Street Mapping- www.openstreetmap.org workshop on December 21, 2012. Twenty-five
students from the Bachelor‘s of Social Works participated in the workshop. This workshop was a followup to a previous talk by Dr. Nama Raj Budhathoki on November 29 in which he discussed Digital Social
Work. During the presentation, he delved into how new digital media platforms engage and enable
students to contribute to social goods. The workshop was technically supported by a group of peopleHelina Shrestha, Manoj Thapa, Amrit Karmacharya, Sazal Sthapit, Lena Reitschuster, Ryan Sommerville,
and Dr. Nama Raj Budhathoki-who actively contribute to OSM Nepal www.osmnepal.org and train new
mappers.
Social Work Activities: SWSC in collaboration with Kantipur Dental College and Nepal Red Cross
Society organized the free dental check up camps and blood donation programs at SWSC premises. These
programs are the part of SWSC ‗s regular science exhibition and career in management program. During
the last program 77 people donated blood and 317 people were benefitted from free dental check up.
Besides, the college organizes the sanitation campaign, awareness campaign etc on regular basis. On the
occasion of World Social Work Day, students from BA in Social Work at SWSC organize sanitation
campaign with in the college premises. Ornamental plants were planted by these students in the college
premises. The objective of the program was to initiate the small social work contribution for the larger
achievements in this sector.
Seminar on Water Quality Monitoring & Environmental Related Issues: A team led by Prof. Dr. Cathy
Conrad including Oliver Wood, Sarah Weston and Tyson Daoust from Saint Mary‘s University, Dalhouse
University and Simon Fraser University conducted a seminar on water quality monitoring to the faculty
members of SWSC and masters students from Central Department of Chemistry, Botany and Zoology and
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participated in this program. The seminar was coordinated by Mr. Hari Singh K.C, Vice-Principal of
SWSC.
Workshop on Proficiency Development for Social Work Students: Southwestern Academic Research
Center (SWARC) organized a workshop for social work students as a part of their proficiency
development. The program was held from 29-30, March in the SWSC seminar hall. More than 35
students from different colleges along with SWSC participated in the workshop. The students were
overwhelmed for having intellectual scholars, professors, dignified personalities, social workers, activists,
practitioners, and teachers facilitated the work shop.
Educational Excursion: SWSC host the short and medim term excersions to the students along with
faculties. For instance—34 students along with 3 faculty member of SWSC visited Germany as a part of
cultural exchange program for 11 days form 23rd December 2014. Faculty wise students are taken to 1-2
days hike and 4-5 days tour on regular basis.
EXTRA CARRICULAR ACTIVITIES
SWSC organizes several extracurricular activities on regular basis. Most of these programs are scheduled
in the college yearly calendar where as some of them are scheduled immediately. Events related to sports,
music, literature, speech, general knowledge etc are the major programs being held. Skill based training,
exposure visits, excursions, participation in the events invited by the external organizers etc are done in
regular basis. Beside these, SWSC organizes several outreach activities as per the necessary.
Development initiatives
The planning model of the Southwestern State College incorporates five interrelated cycle of planning
activities- Strategic Planning, Annual Planning, Monthly Planning, Quality Improvement Planning and
Review.
Strategic Planning
The college has just made a frame work of strategic planning. It covers a period of 20 years. The college
initiates to develop different activities up to 20 years time. It drives specialized plans for various areas of
the college development.
Annual Planning
Annual planning is a part of strategic planning. So annual planning is carried out to fulfill strategic goals
and objectives stated in strategic plan. Annual planning process initiates to develop next year‘s plan and it
evaluates previous year‘s activities too.
Monthly Planning
Monthly planning is a part of annual planning. Every month we have a meeting of College Management
Board and decide to do some initiative activities which are necessary to develop. College Management
Board, faculties, staffs and students are involved in monthly planning process.
Quality Improvement Planning
Quality improvement planning is an integrated part of the college planning model. This process draws
some inputs from annual planning and monthly planning process mostly focusing on vision, mission and
goals. This planning model envisions total quality improvement planning of the college.
Review
Continues evaluation and review of the plan is to identify real problems which are arising day by day. So
this is the ultimate success of strategic and annual planning. College Management Board initiates to
identify real problems and make progress reports for the submission to College Management Team to
review strategic plan. This process is very important to develop over all strategic planning.
Self-Study Report Preparation
How it is understood
Due to the several reasons, there is a huge gap in policy endorsed by the government of Nepal and its
implementation. Nepal‘s education sector is not away from this fact hence higher education institutions
are facing such problems to practice the policy in reality. In this context, the initiation of awarding the
accreditation by the UGC to these institutions is highly appreciable as it supports to increase the quality of
education and the education service delivery in Nepal. This self study report prepared by SWSC and
submitted to the UGC is the product of this initiative so as to get the accreditation. This report reflects the
real situation and status of SWSC including the facilities and service, major highlights, challenges along
with the information related to the eight criteria and benchmarks. Though the college has already prepared
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a document compiling several information for the ISO 9001:2000 certificate, this document is the first
prepared in this kind and process. Thus this is the most important and useful document for the college too
as every sector of the college is reflected in this document. This document becomes the guideline for the
college management team for the future planning, internal assessment and self assessment. It has also
massively facilitated the institution in conducting various academic programs in systematic and scientific
way through documentation.
Formation of SSR team
SWSC had constituted a Self Study Report Preparation Team in the chairmanship of Dr. Rajendra K.C
along with the following members.
1. Mr. Tikaram Mahara
2. Mr. Mahesh Shrestha
3. Mr. Milan Neupane
4. Mr. Kamal Devkota
Among the above mentioned team memebers, Dr. Rajendra KC took advisory role and allocated his time
during the meetings. Other management team and administrative staffs put substantial contribution while
preparing the report.
Approaches
SWSC organized series of orientation programs to its teaching and non teaching staffs after the SSR team
was formed. Information regarding the accreditation process and procedures were presented in the
orientation programs. Basic requirement of the institution for the accreditation were presented in these
events. Staffs (both teaching and non teaching) were assigned to be prepared on the pre requisites in this
process. These people were agreed to contribute from their sector so as to get the accreditation. Several
meetings and discussions were held among the staffs to update them about the report preparation phase
and collected their inputs to make the report more realistic and concrete.
Several seminars were given to the stakeholders by the SSR committees during the self assessment
process and made them aware for the quality service delivery. Besides, some members of the SSR team
visited the already accredited higher secondary institutions as the exposure visits during the self study
report preparation process. Meetings with team members of SSR committee from BalKumari College
Chitawan Nepal were held for their experience sharing. Some best practices have been replicated in
SWSC after the SSR team members visit to these institutions. Regular interaction with the UGC officials
particularly the second higher education project was done.
Validation
The self study report preparation committee members were chosen from the different departments and
backgrounds. Some of these are partially involved in research and project management where they are
directly involved in assessment and report writing. This committee thoroughly went through system of
college in every sector to prepare the report. Once the report was prepared by the committee, college
management committee reviewed it precisely and put their comments on the report. All the department
heads also put their corrections in the report. Again the SSR preparation team incorporated the comments
by management team and made final draft of the report. Finally the College Board read the report and
made some necessary correction. A final report is submitted by the team with several corrections from all
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Policy and Procedures
The college is trying to provide the quality education for the students admitted from different parts. The
mission of this college is to make global citizen who can compete in the modern world. So our mission
guides us to carry on commitment and dedication in the field of education. SWSC wants to make its
students academically sounded and socially responsible citizens from various ways of learning
backgrounds like research and social activities.
In this criterion the college considers how it recognizes and understands the missions and how strategic,
operational and administrative processes are being supported by the following vision, mission and goal.
Vision our students to become a self-directed, self-confidence, leadership development, academically
sounded, intellectually engaged, and socially responsible citizens, who understand and respect the
diversity in the nation and aboard. Our faculty and students will increasingly collaborate in Teaching,
Research, and Social Activities.
Mission SWSC inspires its students to form themselves intellectually and personally and to prepare for
meaningful and ethical work in problem solving, case analysis capacity in global society. Working
together with passion and commitment, we encourage learning, broaden knowledge, and improve the
positive culture through academic innovation.
Goals
We would like to produce the best students through quality education, practical education, and researchled teaching and learning process, which students will be ethical, employable and capable in global
market.
Objectives
s;
-led teaching and learning.
Administrative structure
SWSC is a private organization and it is governed by the team of professional in the field of education.
But indirectly students, parents and the community of the different districts of Nepal are involved in this
organization. This college has Executive Board with seven members. The executive board has formed a
College Management Committee consisting 4 members comprising: Principal, Vice- Principal, Program
Director and Program Coordinator. The Principal is the Member Secretary of Executive Board. He
communicates the issues and problems to the College Management Committee in the Monthly Board
Meeting. He takes main responsibility of the College Management. Vice- Principal looks after the Science
faculty and media coverage. Program Director looks after Management faculty and Accounts and Finance
and Program Coordinator looks after Humanities faculty and Exams. Beside that, there are three Shift In
charges in the college who looks after the Bachelors and Master Program, Science program and +2
management and humanities programs respectively. The college has different subject committees and 60
heads also. These subject committees help in developing lesson plans, class management and research.
These subject committees work under the guidance by College Management Committee on regular basis.
Moreover SWSC has an internal and external monitoring and evaluation scheme. The internal monitoring
and evaluation scheme is done by Principal himself accordingly to internal quality assurance. But the
external monitoring is done by Executive Committee. Beside this, SWSC evaluates the performance of
faculty members, staffs on regular basis. Principal along with all the Board Members evaluate the
performance of faculty members and staffs about their academic excellence, work proficiency,
punctuality, active class room participation and research activities. Faculty members and administrative
staffs are rewarded based their performance on regular basis.
To enhance academic excellence, the college had provision of providing different types self financing
professional courses such as accountancy training from London Chamber of Commerce and Industry
(LCCI) and communication skills.
The college provisioned collecting suggestions from the community, parents, guardians, students, and
teachers and through suggestion box, periodic suggestion collection through specific format and online
system as well. Even the college has appointed a team of experts as Advisory Board Members to develop
and acquire some feedbacks for the management plan. They frequently advise us to adopt participatory
management, research led teaching and presentation classes. The college has formed a Student Quality
Circle by collecting Class Representatives (CR). They inform the college administration about their
opinion on teachers‘ performance, classroom activities and evaluation of the college experience.
SWSC believes that quality education is impossible without research. The management team of SWSC
has established a research center named Southwestern Academic Research Center (SWARC). Faculty
members and students are exposed in research activities by the SWARC. It regularly conducts different
workshops and trainings to increase professionalism, leadership skill and presentation skills to the
students and teachers. SWARC has taken initiatives to promote partnership with external organizations by
launching outreach programs involving different GOs ans I/NGOs.
Curricular Aspects
SWSC has been consistently running with its vision, mission, goals, and spirits to manage practical
education through research led teaching and social activities in the societies. Also we have Internal
Quality Assurance Cell in the college and the subject committees take care about the quality control
process and practices.
There are different areas of studies open for the aspiring students. Various optional and elective subjects
are offered according their choices. BBS, BBA, BA in social work (BSW) and MBS are currently running
at this college, PhD facilitate where as BSc, and A level course by Cambridge University are in pipeline.
Students can choose different elective subjects according to their interest and availability in the college.
SWSC has conducted programs in the morning shift and day shift to facilitate the needs of students. So
the college offers elective, optional, horizontal mobility and time frame matching students‘ convenience.
We are planning to run further classes in morning and evening shift too. Overall we give importance to
the involvement of faculties, communities, students and stakeholders to achieve goal and objectives of the
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Except the regular course works, SWSC provides quality education by enhancing the competency based
skill and self sustaining as well as career development programs like time management, leadership,
motivation, skill development and proficiency development by using information and technology. It has
also been running different extra curricular activities like quiz contest, debate competition, elocution,
poem writing competition, speech, volleyball and basketball matches to create socio-cultural and national
political awareness in students. It has also developed relationship with media houses, industries and
information and technology related organizations as network to create harmony and mutual sharing of
manpower.
SWSC has been organizing different subject wise interaction programs collaboration with other higher
education institutions. These programs are organized to review existing curriculum, put substantive
feedback and discuss about the loopholes for strengthening the ongoing teaching learning methodologies.
SWSC has been linked with different organizations like HSEB, Tribhuvan University for Bachelor Level,
Southwestern Cooperative, International A levels program from Cambridge University, Management
Association of Nepal (MAN) ,HISSAN, LCCI, BMTRADA (organization to provide ISO) and different
other international institutions. Beside we have very good intercollege relationship with other colleges in
this area.
SWSC is aware about its responsibilities. Its motto is research, teaching and social activities. Generally
social work students are mobilized in social work activities. They identify problems in different
communities and do the activities to solve these problems. Frequently they are given civic education
classes as a part of regular class twice a month. Because of this, they learn lots of things. It includes all
round development of the students from that type of programs they learn about time management,
leadership skills, motivation, life skill development, mass communication and social awareness. From
these all they can get ideas about moral and ethical values of education in the societies in real life
situation.
Teaching-Learning and Evaluation
SWSC is committed to expose its students in international standard of teaching and learning system so
that they can easily cope with their further studies at any corner of the world. Some of the main objectives
of adopting different widely accepted teaching and learning approaches are to make students used to in
this highly competitive job market. This college formally announces the admission in its different level to
enroll students. College notice board, website, different social medias and sometimes commercial medias
are used to flow the information regarding the admission. Interested students are requested to fill the
admission form with necessary documents in the specified time. They are admitted mainly on merit basis
and their performance in the entrance test. Previous track records, intelligence, potentiality in any
particular sector, socio-cultural and geographical heterogeneity etc are some other basis of selecting
students for the enrollment. Needy students are provided full and partial scholarships as per the rules. We
give high priority to maintain the social and cultural diversity to form the sections although academic
performance is the major factor in this regard. Newly enrolled students are given counseling and
orientation classes before their classes are commence. They have to receive the oath by college so that
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As we persuade the students with better achievements in their previous degree from the educational
institutions from rural areas where English is not the medium of teaching to enroll, the college manage
extra English language classes to the needy students with free of cost. Students are exposed in reading and
writing practices in English in these classes. Similarly, the college manages extra tutorial classes to the
weak students during the exam periods nevertheless our aim is not only to pass our students in exam. In
today‘s context, Nepalese graduate students are compelled to join several professional trainings like
accounting, report and proposal writing, etc. so as to get better jobs in the market once they passed their
academic degree from the college. SWSC advocates for the enhancement of both knowledge and skill
during their academic course. In this regard, college has regular schedule of such professional trainings.
Till date, trainings on civic education, time management, report writing, proposal writing etc were
organized. Thematic experts are the invited as the facilitator in such trainings.
Each teacher has to attend one day workshop organized by the college for the preparation of yearly lesson
plan before the commencement of their classes. Regular presentations by the students either through
multi-media or other tools are compulsory in each class. Sometimes cross classes are managed in all
possible subjects. A single teacher is not responsible for a whole course in any classes. Cross correction
of assignments is provisioned in the college. Initially students check their mate‘s assignment as per their
capacity and then teacher put their comments and suggestions to both submitters and checkers. Students
have to participate in different level of discussions, interactions and social activities organized by the
college with its partner organizations. Specially the students of social sciences are exposed in critically
reviewing the books, articles, papers etc and present their views towards the readings. Internet based
assignments are also managed in the college. However it depends up on the subject and teachers too.
Faculty members in this college are qualified, experienced and professionals. Their experiences,
qualification and capabilities are mainly evaluated during the recruitment. Most of the faculty members
are fulltime where as some are part time too. Besides the fulltime professional faculties; professors,
researchers, senior managers, I/NGO professionals, bankers, writers, lawyers also are in the college as
visiting faculty members. Their experiences have been supporting students for the better performance.
The college has managed three internal exams namely first terminal, second terminal and pre board exam.
Re exams are managed to those students who become failed in any of these three exams. They have to
appear in such exam until they passed in the failed subject. Regular feedbacks are given to the students in
their performance in the exams. Besides, surprise test and unit test are also managed as per the necessary.
Necessary handouts are given to students from the respective subject teachers. Student‘s assignment
basically the reports, term papers and thesis are kept in library which could be used as the reference
materials by other students. Student at SWSC are given the opportunities of publishing their short articles
in the regular publications of SWSC. Some of their selected papers are published in Southwestern
Education Hub- a trimester journal published by the college where as short articles are being published in
the monthly newspaper. Performance based award system is being implemented in the college. Students
who secure the first position in internal exam are awarded an installment waiver in the fee.
Extracurricular activities are being organized in regular basis which are listed in the college yearly
calendar. Students with better performance in such activities like sports, music and other academic
activities are given national and international platforms.
College management and faculty members are committed to enhance student‘s academic and cocurricular achievements. Infrastructures for the sports (indoor and outdoor games) are built in the college
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premises. College organizes the inter and intra-college sports tournaments, dance and music competitions,
poem competitions, quiz contest, extempore speech, debates etc on regular basis. Students have been
enjoying these as the platform for their exposure. Sometimes experts in the respective fields are managed
to guide students for their better performance in such activities. College management and faculties are
committed being actively participated in this kind of learning process at SWSC. College has put its efforts
to establish the friendly environment both physical and academic. Classes have been managed as per the
necessary. Guest lectures and experts are invited by college as per the faculty member‘s demand and
recommendations.
Research, Consultancy and Extension
Teaching, research and social
Coordinator
activities are the motto of this
college. SWSC has been
promoting the research led
teaching in the class room.
Especially the students
enrolled in social science
subjects like sociology, social
work, mass communication as
well as in marketing etc. are
exposed in research along with
faculties. Southwestern
Academic Research Centre
(SWARC) is a part of this
college to lead the research
based activities collaborating
with college and other partners.
It is in the sense that a separate
Autonomous Body with the
concept of Auto-Run has been
formed which will be totally
responsible for the research
related aspects. The reason
behind this separate entity is
simply to let the Research
Body work widely and openlywhile providing the
opportunity of grabbing and
earning direct and indirect
benefits of one another.
Following is the team
composition in this center. Dr.
Jaya Hari Raj Pandey
Prof. Dr. Abadesh Thakur
Member
Dr. Krishna Bahadur Karki
Member
Mr. Bijaya Sagar Pradhan
Member Secretary
Er. Basu Dev Bista (Chairman Honorary Member
of the College)
Dr. Rajendra K.C. (Principal of Honorary Member
the College)