Long-term Objectives
The Project supports the Country Partnership Strategy and addresses the three engagement areas of integration, transformation and inclusion. These engagement areas foresee increased agricultural productivity and support quality improvements of higher education to create a more skilled workforce that continuously improves the productivity of key sectors, including agriculture. The proposed Project is also a multi-Global Practice collaboration (Agriculture and Education) and is expected to support activities and results directly related to cross-cutting strategic areas of climate change, jobs and gender.
The proposed NAHEP would contribute to the achievement of four Sustainable Development Goals, namely:
Project Development objectives
The objective of the Project is to support Participating Agricultural Universities and ICAR in providing more relevant and higher quality education to Agricultural University students.NAHEP addresses quality by supporting interested AUs to propose and implement technically sound and verifiable investments that increase faculty performance, attract better students to these AUs, improve student learning outcomes and raise their prospects for future employability, particularly in the private sector.
I. Project Beneficiaries
NAHEP would target institutions that form the ICAR-AU System, consisting of State Agricultural Universities, Deemed Universities, Central Universities with Agricultural Faculty and Central Agricultural Universities.
Students would benefit from:
(a) a movement from teaching to learning-centered education, leveraging ICT and external partnerships
(b) Piloting effective stakeholder participation in curricula development, pedagogy options and course evaluation
(c) Increased equity in educational access through vocational and technical certificate programs
(d) An overall improvement in the learning and academic environment that would both expand and sharpen their skill set needed for future employment.
Faculty would benefit from:
(a) Increased collaboration among Indian AUs and with other universities globally to raise research quality and its linkage to educational quality and relevance
(b) Training and capacity-building to improve the delivery of education and its learning outcomes.
Institute would benefit:
(a)Governance &transparency
(b) Infrastructural development
(c) Productive campus culture and Intensive use of technology enabled learning
II. Results Indicators