| |19 December 2017HIGHERReviewYoga Science for which the process is already started with the consent of Ministry of Ayush," opines Prof. Singh. Among the 1000+ students getting enrolled annually, the large numbers of them mainly consist of Arunachal Pradesh including few from the other parts of Northeast.Blend of Bloom's Taxonomy and Gurukul MethodHonored after Benjamin Bloom, Bloom's Taxonomy is in active practice by academicians abroad. Apparently, the mode adopts the objective of remember, understand, ap-ply, analyze, evaluate and create to deliver the most holis-tic learning experience. Given in India, APU is amongst the first to introduce this method of teaching compre-hending its tremendous popularity across the globe. This teaching strategy, however, require integrating multiple disciplines apart from specializing in specific subjects, that is aptly undertaken by the team of 30 facul-ty members, maximum of them are PhD holders. The ex-emplary student-teacher ratio of 1:12 is also an attractive factor when comes to compare APU with other existing institutions in the region.APU also boosts to merge Gurukul tradition in the teaching-learning culture along with Bloom's Taxonomy as the goal of the management is to confer balanced signif-icance to the modern and traditional way of learning. "It is quite an innovative step we took keeping in account the demand of generating individual with high values along with substantial skills," pinpoints Prof. Singh.Arunachal Pradesh being overspread by abundance of Mother Nature, the management encourages the stu-dents to learn from nature. "As it said nature is the best teacher, we are pretty fortunate to have our campus in a location where nature has immense offerings," says Prof. Singh. Besides curricular, APU is distinctly concerned in co-curricular activities, for which ample of workshops, science exhibition and guest lectures are organized in the premises. A youth festival `Jalwa' is also held yearly, stim-ulating students from diverse institutions to participate in the same.Exemplifying EffortsProf. Singh is not only improving the educational scenar-io of the area, he also took a supplemental shot to pro-vide stipend to each and every student studying at APU with the help of the Arunachal Pradesh Government. "If calculated, the fees of our courses are comparably lesser and our students are only after paying 10-20 percent of the fees including scholarship and stipend," claims Prof. Singh. Excluding this, there are numerous added assets for the learners studying at APU. Situated in a place where most of the students belong to the scheduled tribe who are more inclined to Gov-ernment jobs, as getting these jobs are easy for them on grounds of governmental norms for ST. APU understand the fact and offers free coaching to students for several competitive exams. "We are keen to outset counseling our students on the decision of coming out from their co-coon and touch the sky instead of prioritizing government jobs," says Prof. Singh. Being in the early stage, APU is driven to be among the country's best university by the year 2020 through fostering wisdom and integrity. "We aspire to transform the lives of people in India through innovative and sus-tainable solutions and empower the youths through access to quality higher education," concludes Prof. Singh.
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