Faced with an acute shortage of good academic leadership across several educational institutes, including IITs, NITs and central universities, the human resource development ministry is set to rely on a pool of over 200 select academics it has trained and assessed on leadership qualities with the help of top Indian and global institutes.
Senior HRD ministry officials confirmed to ET that the high scorers on the Centre’s leadership for academicians’ programme (LEAP) will be considered for leadership positions across institutes. Around 46 of these academics have scored high ratings so far and are likely to be among the top contenders for leadership positions, ET gathers.
Launched in November 2018, LEAP has helped create this ‘pool’ of academics who have been graded on leadership parameters such as crisis management, communication and organisational skills, problem solving skills and teamwork, besides administration and financial management of higher education institutes.
LEAP is a government funded leadership development programme to train second tier academic leadership –– senior faculty such as deans, heads of department –– for future governance roles.
Source: Economic Times
