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September 16, 2019
India's Human Resource Development Minister launches Leadership for Academicians Programme (LEAP) - 2019
Photo: India’s Minister for Human Resource Development, Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal’ Nishank’, at the launch of the Annual Refresher Programme In Teaching (ARPIT) and Leadership for Academicians (LEAP), in New Delhi on 16 September 2019.
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New Delhi, 16 September 2019 — Union Human Resource Development Minister, Ramesh Pokhriyal’ Nishank’, launched Leadership for Academicians Programme (LEAP) - 2019 and Annual Refresher Programme In Teaching (ARPIT) - 2019 under Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching (PMMMNMTT) in New Delhi today.
The Minister said that teachers are the base of the education system. ARPIT is an excellent platform for teachers to learn about the latest developments in their field and develop their teaching qualities. He said that for better results, we need to increase the participation of teachers in this program.
He said that we have a vision and mission. We need better coordination, such as between the University Grants Commission (UGC) and All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE).
The Minister appreciated the LEAP program and said that we could develop administrative capabilities and leadership for organizations through this program. He further said that the leaders thus produced would have the responsibility of bringing institutions to the world ranking.
• Leadership for Academicians Programme (LEAP) -
The Leadership for Academicians Programme (LEAP) develops leaders for Higher Education Institutions.
LEAP is a three weeks leadership development program (2 weeks domestic and one-week foreign training) for second level academic functionaries in public-funded higher education institutions. Its main objective is to prepare the second tier academic heads that are potentially likely to assume leadership roles in the future. The Government is implementing LEAP through the following 15 institutions:
- Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
- Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
- Banaras Hindu University
- Jamia Milia Islamia
- Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
- Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Kolkata
- University of Hyderabad
- NIT Trichy
- University of Delhi
- Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
- Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Indian Institute of Technology, BHU
- TISS, Mumbai (CALEM)
- AMU (CALEM)
- NIEPA (CALEM)
The mandatory eligibility conditions are a minimum of eight years of experience as Professor, three years of administrative experience, Impeccable Integrity, and high academic standing.
A maximum of Rs. 10 Lakhs per participant (including foreign training) is approved and each training institution signs MoUs with its international counterpart. LEAP training institution prepares information brochures with relevant information, such as the Structure of the Program, Curriculum, Resource Persons, Pedagogical aspects, Assessment and Evaluation, and Scheduled Dates for Indian & Foreign training. Each training module has a batch of 30 trainees. At the end of the training, the program evaluates the trainees on ten critical leadership attributes, namely, visioning & strategizing; communication skills; people management; conflict management & handling stress; decision making; teaching & learning research and innovation; financial planning and management; administrative skills; understanding students; and collaboration. In 2018-19, out of 15 LEAP approved Institutions, 12 have completed LEAP training with 280 participants.
In 2019-20, a centralized online selection process has been put in place and is now open for applying. The last date of registration is 25 September 2019, and the institution-wise selections would be available by 27 September 2019. The tentative LEAP (2019-20) Training Schedule is as follows:
LEAP Training Institution - Tentative Dates - Proposed Foreign University
- IIT, Roorkee - 29 March to 4 April 2020 - University of Michigan
- The University of Hyderabad - 28 October to 16 November 2019 - Cornell/Yale/Duke University, USA. Kyoto University, Japan
- Jawaharlal Nehru Univ. - 2 to 13 December 2019 - NTU Singapore
- AMU - February 2020 - Monash University
- TISS - 20-31st Jan 2020 - University of Pennsylvania
- NIEPA - 6 to 20 November 2020 - Oxford University, UK
- Banaras Hindu University -16 to 21 March - University of Chicago
- IIT Bombay - 24 February to 31 March 2020 - Cambridge /Oxford Univ/LSE/Kellogg School of Management
- NIT Trichy - 2 to 7 March 2020 - NTU Singapore
- IIT Kanpur - January/February 2020 - NTU Singapore
- IISER Kolkata - July 2020 - Details awaited
- IIT (BHU) - Dec 2019 to Jan 2020 - Details awaited
- Jamia Milia Islamia - February/March 2020 - Oxford University UK/ University of Virginia, USA
- IIT Kharagpur - 6 to10 Jan 2020 - University of Cambridge, UK
- University of Delhi - February 2020 - Ross Business School, University of Michigan
• Annual Refresher Programme In Teaching (ARPIT) -
Ministry of Human Resource Development launched the Annual Refresher Programme In Teaching (ARPIT) in November 2018. ARPIT is a unique initiative comprising the online professional development of 1.5 million higher education faculty using the MOOCs platform SWAYAM.
The ARPIT program first identifies the discipline-specific National Resource Centers (NRCs). These NRCs are then tasked to prepare online training material with a focus on the latest developments in the discipline, new & emerging trends, pedagogical improvements, and methodologies for transacting revised curriculum.
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