FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

The University Grants Commission has been making proactive efforts to upgrade the knowledge and skills of faculty members in the institutions of higher education. For the purpose of organising orientation and refresher courses for in-service faculty members, the UGC has established and funds a network of 66 Academic Staff Colleges across the country.

Besides, the UGC has also identified as many as 5 universities/institutions to organise and conduct refresher courses for faculty members in their chosen areas of specialization.

FDP OF MAHATMA GANDHI UNIVERSITY

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USEFUL REFERENCES

Mahatma Gandhi University, one of the major Universities in Kerala, is a premier educational institution that strives to fulfill the higher educational needs of the people of Central Kerala. ... At present, MGU offers research programme in forty disciplines through its own schools as well as its approved research centres. PRDS College is affiliated to MG University

Government of Kerala

The University Grants Commission (UGC) came into existence on 28th December, 1953 and became a statutory Organization of the Government of India by an Act of Parliament in 1956, for the coordination, determination and maintenance of standards of teaching, examination and research in university education.

Education Department, Government of Kerala

Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) was created on September 26, 1985, through the 174th amendment to the Government of India (Allocation of Business) Rules, 1961. The Ministry of Human Resource Development, formerly Ministry of Education, is responsible for the development of human resources in India. 

The National Assessment and Accreditation Council is an organization that assesses and accredits higher education Institutions in India. It is an autonomous body funded by the University Grants Commission of Government of India headquartered in Bangalore.

The National Institutional Ranking Framework is a methodology adopted by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, to rank institutions of higher education in India. The Framework was approved by the MHRD and launched by Minister of Human Resource Development on 29 September 2015

Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievements (ARIIA) is an initiative of Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Govt. of India to systematically rank all major higher educational institutions and universities in India on indicators related to “Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development” amongst students and faculties.

University of Kerala, formerly the University of Travancore, is an affiliating university located in Thiruvananthapuram, capital of the state of Kerala,

Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit is a research-oriented public university located at Kalady near Kochi and Kottayam in the Indian state of Kerala. The university is named after the sage and philosopher Adi Sankaracharya and was established in 1993.

The University of Calicut, also known as Calicut University, is a state university in India run by the state of Kerala. It is headquartered at Thenjipalam in Malappuram district. Established in 1968, it is the second university to be set up in Kerala after the University of Kerala.

Cochin University of Science and Technology is a government-owned autonomous science and technology university in Kochi, Kerala, India. It was founded in 1971 and has two campuses

Kannur University is a multi-campus public university established in 1996 to provide development of higher education in Kasaragod, Kannur, and Wayanad districts of Kerala, India. It was established after the passing of Act No. 22 of 1996 of the Kerala Legislative Assembly

Thunchath Ezhuthachan Malayalam University was established in 2012. T The University is came in to being on 1st November 2012

Kerala Kalamandalam, deemed to be University of Art and Culture by the Government of India, is a major center for learning Indian performing arts, especially those that developed in the Southern states of India, with the special emphasis on Kerala.

The National Academic Depository is a digital database of academic awards provided by the Government of India. NAD is an inter-operable system for storage, retrieval, authentication and verification of academic awards. NAD allows the logging of academic awards.

SWAYAM PRABHA is an education learning platform initiated by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) available 24x7 through 32 DTH channels. This initiative provides an educational program on Television on multiple time zone. The content provider is NPTEL, IITs, UGC, NCERT, etc.

Union Cabinet has approved a programme titled Global Initiative for Academic Networks (GIAN) in Higher Education aimed at tapping the talent pool of scientists and entrepreneurs internationally to encourage their engagement with the institutes of Higher Education in India so as to augment the country's existing