Every new faculty member in higher education will be required to undergo a four week Orientation / First level Programme which will be focused on some broad area of knowledge spanning a few allied disciplines.
The objective of the orientation programme is to make teachers an agent of socio economic change and put them in centre stage of national development.
The programme shall have the following components:
These will be mainly focused for those faculty members who have already undergone through the Orientation/First Level Programme in an identified broad area. The programme will be discipline specific with advanced developments in an identified subject under the concerned broad area. In addition, there will be Refresher Programmes, geared towards emerging cross discipline advanced studies to enable the participants of relevant disciplines to work together or contemporary application of new knowledge for industrial and social development and other allied aspects. The goal would be to equip and motivate the participants with advanced knowledge to accept challenges of quality teaching and research.
These will be organized for shorter duration of one week (6 working days, 36 contact hours) and will be covering mainly for capacity building of academics, administrators and other stakeholders.
Short-term course of 3-6 days duration especially on research methodology and specialised themes of interest.