University Grants Commission Chairman Jagadesh Kumar has underlined the importance of the guidelines recently issued by the UGC for preparation of Institution Development Plan (IDP) for higher educational institutions.
In a video message posted on the official Twitter handle of UGC India, the UGC chief highlighted that every educational institution has two missions – social mission and academic mission.
He explained that the social mission includes providing students access to high quality education and preparing them for the various professions they may wish to pursue. Whereas, the academic mission includes a focus on academic excellence, research and innovation, leveraging digital technologies and international collaboration, among other aspects.
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The Chairman said that to achieve these missions, all educational institutions should prepare an Institution Development Plan that is unique to their respective missions. The UGC Chairman said, these guidelines include some enablers which include academic excellence enabler, research enabler, capacity building enabler, digital technology enabler and more.
Kumar urged the leaders of all educational institutions to read the guidelines and prepare a roadmap to ensure that their respective institutions are taken up a notch.
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According to ugc guidelinesThere are 10 major objectives that are to be achieved through IDP. These are as follows:
- To articulate a clear vision and mission of the Institute and align them with the National Education Policy 2020, NCRF, SDGs and the educational and research activities and social objectives of the Institute.
- To assess institutional developmental needs through extensive consultative processes.
- Identifying capacity (human, material and financial) and organizational gaps based on goals and priorities.
- Develop annual activity/capacity building plans to build capacity and address gaps.
- To establish a transparent system for holistic, inclusive growth and development of HEIs through the application of all relevant tools, technologies and opportunities (especially digital technologies) to ensure optimum utilization for overall balanced development.
- To establish an ethos of holistic lifelong learning and an operative framework to promote better employability and entrepreneurship by integration of skills in higher education.
- Develop an operative framework to promote internationalization of education, international equivalence and exchange of faculty and students.
- To ensure meaningful participation of all stakeholders in the development and implementation of its IDP.
- To set the goals of the institution using indicators and time bound targets and implementation plans.
- To review from time to time and take appropriate measures for continuous curriculum improvement and further improvement.
