LEAP is an initiative conceived by the Ministry of Human Resource Development to hone and equip the senior faculty members of higher educational institutions with leadership skills and roles. As the global competition gets stronger, the role of Higher Education is a key factor in India’s growth strategy and capable academic leaders who will take the Institutions forward. As an attempt to face the myriad challenges and opportunities in Higher Education, LEAP is being organized by the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli in collaboration with the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and with IIIT, Sri City as the organizing partner. The rogramme has an exclusive activity based outbound experiential learning module during the weekend. It is pertinent to mention that NIT Tiruchirappalli is the only institution chosen for conducting the program.
The event spans over three weeks from February 4 to 23 with the participants visiting the Nanyang Technology University, Singapore in the last week. Through a participative learning mode, the programme will equip 23 participants from 16 different universities across the length and breadth of the country – Assam to Uttarakhand to Surat down to Karaikudi and Calicut to take up leadership roles. The MHRD mandate on participant’s profile was to ensure diversity, accordingly professors from fields ranging from Science, Engineering to Animal
biology to plant protection are attending the programme.
The programme has 31 renowned and prolific speakers from institutes of national reputation and the industry. Industry visits and immersion during the 2nd week at IIIT Sricity leveraging the ecosystem at Sri
City followed by international immersion at NTU ranked amongst top universities in the world.
The programme is planned to create an opportunity to consolidate best practices created at the national level, benchmark them with international practices and eventually provide a structured approach for institutional transformation. The LEAP programme at NIT Trichy is expected to provide the required insights on emerging international and national contexts of higher education and necessary learnings for taking up leadership roles in institutions such as IITs, NITs, IIITs, Central/State Universities, etc.
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