Empowering teachers and students through value-based education, inclusion, mental well-being, and skill development while promoting equality, diversity, and active participation in building a peaceful, sustainable, and progressive society.
To assist teachers in realisation of the larger context of education and the role of a teacher in society. Some illustrative topics to be covered could be development of humanistic, ethical, constitutional, and universal human values, scientific temper, mental well-being, psychological health, citizenship values, life skills, lessons in seva/service and participation in community service programmes.
To empower learners to become aware of and understand global issues and become active promoters of more peaceful, tolerant, inclusive, secure, and sustainable societies. In addition to that the centre shall cover topics on Secularism, National Integration, Multiple Cultures, Equality, Indian Tradition, Creation of Indian Identity, Human Rights, Sustainable Development, Public Interest Movement.
To focus on aspects of understanding the details of mind and mental systems, emotional intelligence, methods of mind training to encounter and regulate the destructive emotions, importance of realization of the positive emotions, importance of mindfulness in maintaining peace of mind, social emotional learning necessary for educating youths to regulate their mind while encountering adverse situations.
To enable higher education institutions in becoming sensitive and creating zero – tolerance to all forms of caste, religion, and gender – based discrimination in the campus.
To impart training programmes on gender related topics (including trans-gender students), equipping female teachers as leaders and to create opportunities for women teachers in higher education.
To focus on sensitizing the participants towards person with disability through sensitization of physical and neuro-development disabilities, rights, and legal frameworks for persons with disabilities, understanding inclusion, emotions vs facts, understanding assistive technologies, and taking inclusion to the classrooms.
To sensitize the faculty on equality, dignity, and the right to live, work and study without fear of discrimination and harassment.
To operate as a cross-cutting theme in all the training programmes to encourage HEIs to build a conducive environment for students from diverse backgrounds so that they can access and enrol in HEIs. To sensitize the faculty on equality, dignity, and the right to live, work and study without fear of discrimination and harassment.
To support the Institutes in organizing career guidance programmes and various training programmes on enhancing the reasoning, aptitude, and quantitative skills of students. These training programmes shall equip students with skills and groom their personality.
To assist the universities in organizing workshops such as resume writing, communication skill development, and mock interview by the Higher Education Institutes in collaboration with Centre, to instil confidence and develop the right attitude in students.
To assist HEI’s in setting up student clubs which shall be instrumental in developing co-curricular skills among students. It shall also assist HEI’s in identifying prospective areas for development of new subjects and curriculum.
