The National Education Policy 2020 seeks to transform higher education by focusing
on skill- based education to meet needs of the industry and the economy. Further, the NEP also
recommends integrating vocational education with general education and strengthening industry-academia
collaboration in HEIs. For skilling of youth at the optimum level, learners are required to think like
employers and employers are to think like learners. Towards this, the UGC has taken a new initiative to
bring the industry and other professional expertise into the academic institutions through a new
category of positions called “Professor of Practice”. This will help to take real world practices and
experiences into the class rooms and also augment the faculty resources in higher education
institutions. In turn, the industry and society will benefit from trained graduates equipped with the
relevant skills.
Guidelines for Engaging Professor of Practice in Universities and Colleges
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