Every year at least 2,000 teachers will be given offline training and 10,000 teachers will be provided online training, Dr.C.N.Ashwatha Narayana, the Minister for Higher Education, said on Thursday.
Speaking while inaugurating the NEP-2020 supplementary programs charted out by Vijayanagara Sri Krishnadevaraya University and Bellary Institute of Technology & Management in association with Bharatiya Shikshana Mandala (Ballari North Division), faculty training will be given priority as per the guidelines of National Education Policy-2020.
Higher Education Academy, Dharwad will train 2,000 teachers physically (offline) every year and Infosys will train 200 teachers in each batch on regular basis on its’ Mysuru campus. In addition to this, the Universities of Gulbarga and Mysuru also will involve in training the teachers. This is in addition to 10,000 teachers of higher education being trained through online mode, he explained.
“Actions have been taken to upgrade the quality of higher education. In engineering, marks for Internal assessment have been increased to 50 marks in each subject and the same will be introduced for other degree courses also. In addition to this, 1 hour of regular class will be divided into 45 minutes of teaching and 15 minutes of internal assessment” he explained.
Later in the interaction held with faculty and students, Minister Narayana told, that the government had entered into an agreement with ‘Unacademy’ to facilitate students of the state to better prepare for All India level competitive examinations and training would be given in colleges at free of cost.
As part of the event an MoU between Vijayanagara Sri Krishnadevaraya University and NASSCOM/IT-ITeS sector skills council, NASSCOM was inked for undertaking skill development training in emerging technologies.
B.Sriramulu, Minister of Transport and ST welfare, GoK, Somashekhara Reddy, MLA, K.C.Kondaiha, MLC, Pradeep P., Commissioner, Dept. of Collegiate & Technical Education, Prof. Siddu P.Alagura, Vice-Chancellor, Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Prof.Gopalakrishna Joshi, ED, State Higher Education Council, Dr.Yashwant Bhupal, Chairperson, BITM, Ballari and others were present.
Over 12K faculty in higher education will be trained every year: Dr.C.N.Ashwatha Narayana
Ballari: Every year at least 2,000 teachers will be given offline training and 10,000 teachers will be provided online training, Dr.C.N.Ashwatha Narayana, the Minister for Higher Education, said on Thursday.
Speaking while inaugurating the NEP-2020 supplementary programs charted out by Vijayanagara Sri Krishnadevaraya University and Bellary Institute of Technology & Management in association with Bharatiya Shikshana Mandala (Ballari North Division), faculty training will be given priority as per the guidelines of National Education Policy-2020.
Higher Education Academy, Dharwad will train 2,000 teachers physically (offline) every year and Infosys will train 200 teachers in each batch on regular basis on its’ Mysuru campus. In addition to this, the Universities of Gulbarga and Mysuru also will involve in training the teachers. This is in addition to 10,000 teachers of higher education being trained through online mode, he explained.
“Actions have been taken to upgrade the quality of higher education. In engineering, marks for Internal assessment have been increased to 50 marks in each subject and the same will be introduced for other degree courses also. In addition to this, 1 hour of regular class will be divided into 45 minutes of teaching and 15 minutes of internal assessment” he explained.
Later in the interaction held with faculty and students, Minister Narayana told, that the government had entered into an agreement with ‘Unacademy’ to facilitate students of the state to better prepare for All India level competitive examinations and training would be given in colleges at free of cost.
As part of the event an MoU between Vijayanagara Sri Krishnadevaraya University and NASSCOM/IT-ITeS sector skills council, NASSCOM was inked for undertaking skill development training in emerging technologies.
B.Sriramulu, Minister of Transport and ST welfare, GoK, Somashekhara Reddy, MLA, K.C.Kondaiha, MLC, Pradeep P., Commissioner, Dept. of Collegiate & Technical Education, Prof. Siddu P.Alagura, Vice-Chancellor, Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Prof.Gopalakrishna Joshi, ED, State Higher Education Council, Dr.Yashwant Bhupal, Chairperson, BITM, Ballari and others were present.