UGC approves guidelines for leadership development program for higher education institutions

UGC approves guidelines for leadership development program for higher education institutions

“Ultimately, the objective is to create academic leaders who can steer HEIs toward sustainable growth and future readiness, ensuring their institutions thrive in the modern educational ecosystem,” the guidelines said.

The aim of the intervention to develop leadership should be to create an ecosystem of practicing leadership that prepares the faculty and also trickles down among the students through capacity building on leadership.

The overall objective for this leadership development should be broadened to ensure that the faculty members and non-faculty members are also prepared to play the role of leaders considering the future readiness of the modern workplace.

They should contribute towards the larger goals set out by the higher education ecosystem.

The guidelines stress the requirements for leadership development roles by highlighting that faculty members should be equipped with diversified skill sets such as teachers, researchers, mentors, coaches, and excellent administrators to create holistic institutions.

They should develop entrepreneurial skills to respond to the volatile uncertain complex and ambiguous (VUCA)/brittle, anxious, non-linear, and incomprehensible (BANI) world, take risks, and drive performance excellence to make their institution ‘future ready.’

Cultivate a visionary mindset to gain long-term and sustainable development of the institute by creating robust strategic objectives for self and the entire workforce.

Also, learn contemporary technology and trends to enable the institute to make hybrid and digitalized spaces for learning and research.

They should also share the best practices available nationally and internationally to benchmark themselves and create an implementation plan for their respective institution.

Hone their administrative skills to manage and set up world-class, futuristic systems and processes for the institute; be prepared to deliver on interventions necessitated to prepare a generation of student citizens with a new mindset and not just skill sets that could be socially useful as well as financially rewarding and should be active contributors to the goal of nation-building, and inspire the same spirit among the students

As a part of the capacity building programme for leadership, two modes of training programmes are designed - iGOT (Integrated Government Online Platform) Training Programmes Module and Online Leadership Training Programme Module, it said.