Fulcrum Of Institutional Excellence Will Come From Faculty Members, Says AICTE Chairman

New Delhi: All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) chairman, Anil Sahasrabudhe said that faculty members are the most important pillar in educational institutions and contribute to the fulcrum of institutional excellence. He said this while addressing an event hosted by the NorthCap University in Gurgaon on Saturday.

“The fulcrum of institutional excellence will come from faculty members because they are constantly associated with an educational institution for a very long time. A faculty spends around four decades in the academic sphere, hence they become the most important pillar to achieve excellence in education,” Sahasrabudhe was quoted as saying by news agency PTI.

The technical education regulatory body chief spoke on the need to adopt technology in education and detailed the AICTE’s initiatives to empower faculty members during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“We have trained over 1.65 lakh teachers in courses like AI, IoT, ML, Blockchain, AR and VR, etc with the help of over 948 programs available online under the AICTE’s Training and Learning Academy. The AICTE plans to train over two lakh teachers through 130 programs during this year,” Sahasrabudhe said.

Deputy Dean (Academic Affairs), NorthCap University, Rekha Vig highlighted the continuity of the education process through the COVID crisis. “The Indian education fraternity has embraced the online system more than willingly, meticulously, and ardently. During the lockdown, when everything was closed, education institutions were open and students were studying,” Vig said.

“Online teaching has changed the way the world learns now. Thanks to COVID, education is never going to be the same again. It’s not just the transformation itself but the pace at which it has happened is rather more intriguing,” she added.

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