Thirdly the student experience about co-curricular activities, student life and experiential learning should be as per international norms.

Secondly, the academic Institutes must ensure that travel and Visa requirements for International students are handled efficiently for a smooth experience. This will give the credibility to the Indian degrees offered and will ensure international acceptance. For Indian Educational Institutes to attract more students firstly it is important the Qualifications offered are internationally accredited and recognized. Timely action based on the situation, feedback and resourcesĪns.: Educational tourism is a very popular concept that all the countries are adopting to attract the student body that will ensure revenues to their economies.Seeking regular feedback from all stakeholders.Adequacy of both human and ICT resources.Preparedness of faculty members at all times.Engagement of students with online environment.The following need to be addressed by educators to respond to any pandemics/ challenging situations: In my opinion, while responding to the pandemic, the academic leader, in any institution, should balance the Health and safety requirements with teaching and learning environment as per the suggested model below: All educational institutions had to resort to alternate methods of delivery and most importantly switching from face to face to online mode in a very short span of time. The most important challenges were ensuring safety and wellbeing of all stakeholders, continuity of operations and maintaining academic standards.

Closure of university premises lead to suspension of classes. Editor & Publisher of JTA, took the opportunity to have the deliberation with her on the Educational Leadership and the Pandemic.Īns.: All educators faced challenging circumstances due to recent Pandemic. In these Pandemic times, increasing focus on the education, the role at the academic institutes with maintaining the standards of their teaching, Mr. Before taking up the role of Academic Vice President she was the Dean for College of Art & Design for over six years. Mona Suri was teaching at Lady Irwin College, Delhi University, New Delhi, for twenty years and joined the Royal University for Women in September 2008 and in the last thirteen years, has been contributing the academic and corporate life of RUW. She has many publications, presentations and awards to her credit.ĭr. She has been actively involved in research and teaching and has successfully supervised six PhD and 45 Master’s students. She completed her studies in Fabric and Apparel Science from Delhi University, India. Mona Suri, Associate Professor, is the Academic Vice President at Royal University for Women (RUW), PFHEA, Higher Education Academy, UK, with a teaching experience of more than 31 years.

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