In continuation to its ‘TEQIP-II Conclave’ held in the month of May this year, the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Raipur will be holding a six-day ‘Faculty Development Program’ at Hotel VW Canyon here from August 4 to 9.
The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) has entrusted IIM Raipur with the responsibility of bringing improvement in technical education.
The MHRD launched the “Technical Education Quality Improvement Program of Government of India (TEQIP)” in December, 2002, which aims to upscale and support ongoing efforts in improving quality of technical education and enhancing existing capacities of the institutions to become dynamic, demand-driven, quality conscious, efficient and forward looking, responsive to rapid economic and technological developments occurring both at national and international levels, an IIM press release issued here stated.
The program was conceived and designed as a long term project to be implemented in 10-12 years in 3 phases to support excellence and transformation in Technical Education in the country.Based on the achievements made during TEQIP Phase-I, Technical Education Quality Improvement Program (TEQIP) Phase - II is being implemented as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme (CSS) with the assistance of the World Bank.
“The demand of quality education amongst the heads of institutions has increased over the years and it is important for the higher educational institutions to earn a place for themselves in the world rankings. The FDP program of IIM Raipur is aimed to identify the gaps and lacunae in the present system, processes and infrastructure; and to develop benchmarks for the delivery of education and resources management.” said Prof BS Sahay, Director, IIM Raipur.
Forty Professors and Associate Professors from engineering colleges across the States of Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Tripura will attend the program.Amit Agrawal, Secretary, Technical Education, Government of Chhattisgarh, along with Prof BS Sahay will inaugurate the program on Monday (August 4).The theme for the first day is ‘Understanding Institutional Needs and Self’ and multiple sessions are scheduled to be conducted on this theme by the faculty members of IIM Raipur.
The first session will be conducted by Prof Sanjeev Prashar. Prof BS Sahay will conduct a session on ‘Achieving Academic Excellence’, whereas Prof Satyasiba Das will take a session on ‘Accreditations and Washington Accord’.live workshop with specialised experts will also be conducted to train the faculty members around issues like counselling and mentoring.The institute is also working on several projects related to improvement of technical education in India which are listed below:
Project- 1- ‘Accreditation and Washington Accord’ (Faculty Coordinators- Prof. Satyasiba Das and Prof. Pankaj Singh), Project 2- ‘How to achieve Academic Excellence’ (Faculty Coordinators- Prof. Vinita Sahay and Prof. Saurabh Pandya), Project 3- ‘Academia-Industry Partnership’ (Faculty Coordinators -Prof Sanjeev Prashar and Prof Vinay Goyal), Project 4- ‘Teaching Pedagogy’ (Faculty Coordinators- Prof PRS Sarma and Prof. Manojit Cahttopadhyay) and Project 5- ‘Reasearch and Publications’ (Faculty Coordinators-Prof Sumeet Gupta and Prof M Kannadhasan).