AIU - Academic and Administrative Development Centre

About AIU - Academic and Administrative Development Centre

 

As the third largest Higher Education (HE) system in the world, Indian HE not only caters to students in diverse locations across the sub-continent but also is in the process of achieving 50% GER by 2035. While this requires elaborate infrastructure in place and enabling policies of inclusiveness, there is a need to create pathways of continuous learning and updating of skills and new knowledge among faculty in order to make HE quality futuristic. The Human Resource Development Centres (HRDC) set up by the University Grants Commission and the AICTE Training and Learning (ATAL) Academy offer Faculty Development Programmes (FDPs) of varying durations for newly recruited as well as for mid-career professionals. In spite of these efforts, there is still a gap between the number of courses on offer and number of faculty to be trained. Further, there have been very few programmes for the upskilling of administrative staff in the HE system so as to prepare them for the changing e-governance requirements.

It is in this context that the Association of Indian Universities (AIU) has set up Panjab University Academic and Administrative Development Centre (AIU-PU-AADC) in August 2024. While the AIU will provide a seed money of Rupees Two Lakhs to set up the AADC, the programmes will be conducted on a self-sustainable basis.