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MHRD LAUNCHES FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES LEAP & ARPIT
Nov. 16, 2018

A unique initiative of online professional development of 15 lakh higher education faculty using the MOOCs platform SWAYAM, Annual Refresher Programme in Teaching (ARPIT) was launched.The ministry of human resource development also launched Leadership for Academicians Programme (LEAP) which will be implemented through 15 top institutions like IITs, TISS, DU, JNU and IISERs and also include a week training in a foreign campus of the likes of Harvard University, Oxford University, Purdue University and NTU Singapore, among others.

Leadership for Academic Program (Leap)

  • Its aim is to prepare second-level academic heads to take the leadership role in the future.
  • It is a Leading Leadership Development Training Program for three weeks (two week domestic and one-week foreign training) for the people of second level academic field in government high institutions.

Arpit (annual refresher program in teaching)

  • The Annual Refresher Program in Teaching (ARPIT) is a major initiative for the online professional development of 5 million higher education faculty using the MOOC platform itself.