The Indian Institute of Management Raipur (IIM Raipur), in its pursuit to contribute to the ongoing efforts in improving quality of technical education and enhancing existing capacities of the institutions began its 6th six-day Faculty Development Programme (FDP) on Monday here. The programme is being held for 29 Professors, Associate Professors and Assistant Professors from 16 Engineering institutions from states of Maharashtra, Hayrana, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Gujarat, Delhi Tamil Nadu Punjab and Chhattisgarh.
The six-day programme from March 23 to 28 is the 6th Faculty Development Programme (FDP) in the series of FDP organised under Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP-II), an Initiative of Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India (GoI). The day began with Ice-breaking session conducted by Prof Sanjeev Prashar.
The participants became acquainted with each other through game playing methods so as to break the communication and other barriers that exist among strangers. He urged the participants to allow the facilitators to work on them so that they can take maximum benefits of the six-day programme. After the Ice-breaking session, Prof Prashar introduced the participants to the structure of the six-day programme, the background of the TEQIP-II and what could be the key takeaways from this programme.
Prof Parikshit Charan took the next session on ‘Vision, Mission and Strategic Reconciliation in the Academic Institutes, wherein importance of setting aspirations was highlighted and why organisations need aspirations. Further, the connection between aspirations and strategy was highlighted, and why there is a need for strategic reconciliation was stressed upon. The session stressed on the fundamental inter-connectness of human kind, of societies and education at large, and how broad and systemic crises had arisen from a failure of wider vision.
In the post lunch session, Prof Anagha Shukre delivered lectures on Changing Roles of Professors in Higher Education. Her focus was on how should the professors develop themselves in this digital age and be the academic leaders. She enlightened them about creating their specific portfolios and enhancing their thinking processes.
The subsequent session was handled by Prof Satyasiba Das, which dealt with ‘Adapting to Fast Changing Needs’ of the academic institutes. He enlightened the participants on the fast changing scenarios of education while suggesting several methods and urged participants to adapt to the fast changing needs of the education system in connection with achieving academic excellence. The day concluded with project workshop through group activity. The participants were grouped into five groups and two faculty facilitators were assigned to each group for guidance.