As part of its innovative teachers training initiative, the Delhi government will soon send 90 government school principals to the renowned Cambridge University in the United Kingdom for a leadership training exercise. Officials said that in this regard, Cambridge University’s two officers, Jaydeep Prabhu and Harold Chi, met deputy chief minister and education minister Manish Sisodia at the Delhi Secretariat on Monday.
“The Delhi government has allocated Rs102 crore for international training of principals and teachers in the budget for the current financial year. As a first step, 90 principals will be sent to the Cambridge University in three batches. This training or education leadership programme will span over ten days. Apart from visiting the Cambridge University, principals and teachers will also be sent to other top institutions and universities like Oxford, Harvard, IITs and IIMs,” an official statement said.
The statement added that during their meeting with the deputy CM, the officials from Cambridge revealed that the principals going for training would also be visiting the local schools to understand the education system of UK in detail. “In addition, they will also have an opportunity to interact with the teachers of Government schools there,” the statement said.
Government officials said that it has been agreed that the teachers conducting leadership training exercise in Cambridge University would also be visiting Delhi and would interact with the principals of Government schools in Delhi to formulate the next steps of training programme.
