Faculty Achievements

• Dr. A. Catherine Anna Pushpam secured Top 1% in the NPTEL course on “Soft Skills” offered by IIT Roorkee from July 2023 to October 2023
• Dr. A. Sulochana secured Top 5% in the NPTEL course on “Soft Skills” offered by IIT Roorkee from July 2023 to October 2023

• Dr. S. Vijayakumar – Award of Excellence in Implementation of Innovative Pedagogy- Awarding Body – Research Education Solutions in Association with IMB, Approved and recognized by AICTE. Date of Award- March-5, 2023. https://drive.google.com/file/d/18IfrJFsDU2mYhlrHE171W8RNkX2KxPGO/view
• Dr. S. Vijayakumar – Best resource person award – Awarding Body-Lavender Literary Club Reg 44/2013. Awarded on March 2021. https://drive.google.com/drive/u/2/search?q=awards
• Dr. S. Vijayakumar, Assistant Professor of English was the resource person for the session on “Art of Publishing in a High Impact Journal” held at Loyola College, Chennai on September 14, 2022

• Dr. A. Shahin Sultana, Professor of English, was awarded the “Extra Mile Award” for Continuous Excellence by Cambridge Assessment English on 22.11.2019 at the Annual Coordinators’ Conference at Hotel Rain Tree, Chennai. The award was given in recognition of the special efforts taken by her as the Coordinator of Business English Certificate Courses in conducting the courses and the exams well and producing good results consistently. The award was presented by T.K. Arunacahalam, Regional Director, South Asia Region, Cambridge Assessment English.
• B. S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology, which has been functioning as the Preparation and Exam Center for Business English Certificate Courses and related exams, has been given the award “Preparation Centre Award 2019-2020” by Cambridge Assessment English at the Annual Coordinators’ Conference held at Hotel Rain Tree, Chennai. The award was given in recognition of this center for training the students to acquire the qualification Business English Certificate Courses and the faculty members for administering the BEC exams as per the standards set by Cambridge Assessment English successfully and attaining good results consistently.
• Dr. S. Vijayakumar – Springer Best Paper Presentation Award for the research paper titled “Treating ADHD Using Blended Pedagogies” at the International Conference on Learning and Teaching at Coimbatore on 3rd November 2018. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cP17a3fUvKFgm7KBbmKq1zd2d1qXdAck/view
• Dr. S. Vijayakumar – Appreciation for outstanding contribution as a reviewer for JALT-CALL, a Scopus-indexed Journal ISSN 1882-4215 for Vol.14 No.1 December 2018. https://drive.google.com/open?id=11-5VQwPC1H12DF-2fqrRIfTn08187mVX
• Mrs. A. Catherine Anna Pushpam qualified for UGC- NET (2018)
• In 2016, Dr. A. Shahin Sultana was awarded – “Best Staff of the Year – All Rounder” by Cambridge Assessment English at the Cambridge Partners’ function held at Hyatt Regency Chennai in recognition of her contributions towards Business English Certificate Courses and the multi-task role played by her in preparing and training the speaking examiners and administering the exams successfully and achieving good results every year. She was instrumental in starting Business English Certificate Courses and signing MoU. The university became the first private university in South India to have signed the MoU.
• Dr. P. Rathna: Best Paper Award by the International journal IJEL (2016)
• Dr. A. Shahin Sultana: Best staff of the year 2015-2016 and All-rounder
• Dr. P. Rathna: Most Collaborative Participant award by Cambridge English Language Assessment (2015)
• Mrs. A. Catherine Anna Pushpam: First Prize-English in the Classroom competition by Cambridge English Language Assessment (2015)
• Professors A. Catherine Anna Pushpam and P Rathna of B S Abdur Rahman University have won awards under the Cambridge English Language Assessment, a program developed by the University of Cambridge, England. They won awards for their classroom activity initiatives. The program held competitions for English teachers in India on September 5. While Pushpam won the first prize, Hindustan University’s Balakrishnan won the third prize in the higher education category. Rathna, an Associate Professor at Abdur Rahman University, was awarded for being the most collaborative participant.
• Dr. Revathi received a scholarship offered by the WORLD CALL organization to attend and present a paper at the WORLD CALL Conference in Fukowa, Japan, in 2010.
• Dr. Revathi Viswanathan won an award offered by Cambridge ESOL for doing a two-week course in Cambridge in 2009.