State college heads awarded intl diplomas

SHILLONG: Three college principals of the State – Dr C. Massar, Principal, Lady Keane College, Dr V. Kharmawphlang, Principal, College of Teacher Education and D. Chowdhury, Principal, Women’s College, Shillong – were awarded the International Diploma in Educational Leadership – Higher Education at a solemn function held at the India International Centre, New Delhi, on December 22 last.
This international diploma programme was conducted under the banner of Society for Education and Economic Development (SEED), Centre for Higher Education Studies and Training, New Delhi.
The international diploma is awarded to those who successfully complete a one-year rigorous course on various facets of the changes taking place in the domain of higher education and its content covers areas such as Strategic Planning, Funding Issue, Regulatory Mechanisms and ICT enabled higher Studies in the format of Massive Online Open Courses (MOOC) that are in place in the field of higher education across the developed and developing countries.
Planned as an intensive discourse on corporate learning, this international diploma course required these college heads to attend three workshops at New Delhi, a ten-day international Summer School at Paris and a workshop at Netherlands, at the Maastricht Institute of Management, an institute that is listed among the top 200 universities of the world.
During the summer school, the participants had the opportunity to interact with international leaders in the field of academia and had discourses with the leaders of higher educational units of UNESCO, OECD and IIEP, amongst others.