The principals of around 1,024 schools of the Capital are going to be trained at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. Delhi Government signed an MoU with the institute to provide specialised training to the heads of schools run by the Directorate of Education for a course of 18 months.
A statement from the Delhi Government said that under the MoU, IIM-A will administer an intensive course for all principals on school leadership. “After a tie-up with the University of Cambridge, UK, and the National Institute of Education, Singapore, this is another collaboration with premier institutions from around the world for upgrading Delhi’s Government school ecosystem,” the release said.
Praising the step, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said, “The Heads of Schools functioning in Directorate of Education schools have a rich wealth of experience in managing schools. Their capacities to run an academic institute should be supplemented by professional training in leadership, especially in the field of school education. The Government is serious about building skills and capacities of all principals, teachers working in our schools, and I am a confident this step will go a long way towards improving the way individual school managements function.”
The AAP Government said the transformation of Delhi’s Government schools has been its top priority and it believes that investing in education is investing in the future of the country. “Several steps are being taken to improve the quality of schools in terms of infrastructure, teaching-learning methodology, narrowing the learning deficits, etc”.
“Principals are the pillars of every school and for a school to do well, it is important to strengthen school leaders. The IIM-A’s Right to Education Resource Centre will conduct the sessions with Delhi Government school principals over a period of one and a half years,” added the statement.