As a part of the task undertaken in the second phase of implementation of Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme, IIM Raipur inaugurated a six-day program on ‘Faculty Development for Technical Education’ on Monday.
Amit Agarwal, Secretary, Department of Technical Education Government of Chhattisgarh besides a number of eminent personalities attended the inaugural programme.
Prof BS Sahay, Director IIM Raipur, in his welcome note emphasised on the lack of employable graduates and the degrading quality of education.
He encouraged the participants to engage in mutual learning to do something collectively about these problems.
Dr Sanjeev Prashar, Program Coordinator, introduced the session program, the faculty coordinators and the participants.
He congratulated the participants on being a part of the Technical Department who have changed the image of India in the world from that of a land of snake charmers to that of “technical drivers”.
Parashar explained the evolution of a university and highlighted the problems in the Indian education system.
He stressed upon the fact that supply has ceased to be an issue; however the real issues are quality and consumer choice.
Prof MK Kannadasan, Program Co-ordinator, proposed the vote of thanks.
The theme for the first day of the FDP program was ‘Understanding Institutional Needs and Self’.
Prof BS Sahay conducted an exclusive session on ‘Achieving Academic Excellence’ with the participants. Post his session, participants worked on the projects along with their faculty coordinators.
The theme for the second day of the program will be ‘learning Teaching Methodology’ and participants will attend sessions on ‘Participant Centred learning’ by Prof Vinita Sahay, ‘Improving Teaching learning Process’ by Prof PRS Sarma, ‘Evaluation and Assessment Techniques’ by Prof M Kannadasan and ‘Using Feedback for Self Development’ by Prof PRS Sarma.