The Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Raipur, in its pursuit to contribute for the quality improvement in higher education on Monday inaugurated the third Faculty Development Programme (FDP) here.
The programme has been organised for faculty members at different levels of seniority from 15 engineering institutions from five States on Monday. Participants from West Bengal, Odisha, Jharkhand, Tripura and Chhattisgarh are taking part in the event. This six-day programme is the second phase implementation of Technical Education Quality Improvement Program (TEQIP) — a initiative by Union Ministry of Human Resource Development.
Inaugurating the program, Prof BS Sahay, Director IIM Raipur discussed various faces of existing challenges to higher education in India and stressed upon attaining excellence at par with international universities in order to develop competitive advantage for the nation. He further observed, “Many things can be done even in this constrained environment and this required a mindset and courage to execute.”
Discussing with participants, Prof Sahay delivered a talk on ‘Achieving Academic Excellence’ in a separate session and discussed about the Indian position in academic arena and highlighted various areas of scholarships and academic leadership. This session was designed to provide a roadmap for achieving excellence and elaborate multifaceted problems Indian institution encounter.
Earlier, briefing about TEQIP, Professor Sanjeev Prashar, Coordinator TEQIP II informed that the six-day programme has sessions on themes ranging from Participant Centred learning , Developing Research Capability, Improving teaching learning processes, Improving Communication and Interpersonal skills, Student counselling and mentoring etc.