UGC HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT CENTRE

UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI

 Rated as a Performer by NAAC, All India Rank VII

VISION

To transform the teachers into inspirational role models for the young and impressionable students, who in turn will create a just and equitable society that will be progressive and secular. 

MISSION

Our UGC Human Resource Development Centre will be an institute that will strive continuously to achieve academic excellence through its programmes - an institution committed to preserving and enhancing the core values of the teaching profession.  Through our programs, we will equip the teachers with necessary skills to meet the ever mounting challenges of higher education and inculcate in them the pride of belonging to this noble profession and become role models for generations to come. 

OBJECTIVES

The main objectives of our HRDC are to enable the teachers:

• To understand the significance of education in general and higher education in particular in Indian and global contexts.

• To acquire and improve basic skills of teaching and also the use of ICT in teaching learning process.

• To be aware of the latest developments in their specific subject.

• To understand the link between education and economic, social and cultural development of the country.

• To develop one's personality and creativity and become inspirational role models for the students. 

PHILOSOPHY

The main philosophy of UGC for Human Resource Development Centre is to keep in mind that the teacher is central to the system. While it is universally accepted that the teacher is the pivot of the educational system, our system does not provide adequate opportunities for their professional development. It is, therefore necessary to develop inbuilt mechanisms to provide opportunities for teachers within the framework of knowledge society. It is also accepted that a teacher must not be confined only to transmitting information; she/he must also orient students to meet the challenges of life, to not merely become a trained professional, but also a better citizen. 

BACKGROUND OF UGC HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT CENTRE

In pursuance of the National Policy of Education 1986 and its Programme of Action, the University Grants Commission had identified 48 Universities for setting up Academic Staff colleges (presently known as HRDC) in the country in the year 1986 - 87 to cater to the training needs of teachers in the higher educational system. University of Mumbai was one of these Universities identified for setting up of University Grants Commission's Academic Staff college and it was established in the year 1987. The UGC Academic Staff colleges are distinct entities in faculty development in tertiary education conducting specially designed Orientation Programmes and subject based Refresher Courses for College and University teachers. 

PROFILE  / Novel features of UGC Human Resource Development Centre, University of Mumbai

Our UGC Human Resource Development Centre (UGC HRDC), University of Mumbai is located in the heart of Mumbai - the commercial capital of our country. Mumbai, by virtue of its position, is the most cosmopolitan of our cities and we can say that Mumbai is the very microcosm of our country. Thus, we are uniquely placed in the composition of our teacher participants and in the availability of resource persons. Hence, we get participants with widely varying backgrounds, and their coming together in our programmes provides a unique opportunity for the exchange of ideas which, in turn, results in all-round development of the teachers. We are also able to draw our resource persons from renowned institutions like TIFR, TISS, BARC, BSE, IIT, ICT and from other industries, government bodies, cultural centres, in addition to faculty from the University Departments. These unique features make our programmes attractive and widely appreciated by our teacher participants.

Since its inception, UGC HRDC, University of Mumbai has so far offered 113 Orientation Programmes, 266 Refresher Courses and other Short Term Programmes benefitting more than 15,000 teachers.  Our HRDC attracts participants from all over the country as we have been able to impart quality training through our Orientation Programmes, Refresher Courses and Short Term Courses  and now it has blossomed into a centre of excellence.

This was also acknowledged in the recent NAAC review wherein we have been ranked 7^th amongst 66 Human Resource Development Centres in the country and rated as Performer with score of 62 which is the highest amongst all the Human Resource Development Centres of the Western States of Maharashtra, Goa and Gujarat.