BNCA Team visits Liverpool John Moores University under British Council’s Going Global Partnership programme
Going Global Partnership program aims to bridge the skill gap in construction industry
Pune (Voice news service):- MKSSS’s Dr. B. N. College of Architecture, Pune has received funding of around 33000GBP under British Council’s Going Global Partnership program. An Academia-industry consortium is formed among Liverpool John Moores University, UK; MKSSS’s Dr. B. N. College of Architecture, Pune, Pune Construction Engineering Research Foundation, and Rohan Developers Pvt. Ltd. The objective of the Going Global Partnership program is to promote collaboration and innovation in teaching and learning and facilitate Transnational Education in Higher Education Institutions between India and the UK. The overarching aim of the Going Global Partnerships program is to catalyze new teaching and learning partnerships that will allow more Indian students to experience the UK education system and global learning approaches. Dr. Anupa Manewa from LJMU, UK, the applicant and Dr. Vaishali Anagal, BNCA, Pune, co-applicant had applied for research funding.
Under this program, a one-year postgraduate diploma course will be developed to offer an apprenticeship program offer a combination of education and skills to the student, and create an innovative employer-funded financing model. In a way, linking higher education degrees to learning-by-doing and learning while earning will be possible to make higher education more inclusive and demand-driven. The National Education Policy India (2020) endorses apprenticeship schemes while claiming that the unemployability of graduates is higher than that of other youth.
The program aims to develop a knowledge and skills hub and a top-up degree course to cater to the skill crisis in the Indian construction sector. The curriculum will be developed by identifying the skills gap through initial research in the construction industry. The apprentices will be given the option of completing their degrees either in India or the UK. The course will be open for students from both cognate and non-cognate disciplines. Students from deprived and disadvantaged communities, and differently-abled, will be encouraged.
Under this research project, a Training the Trainers program at Liverpool John Moores University UK was organized for BNCA faculty and industrial partners by Dr. Anupa Manewa from Liverpool John Moores University. The team including Dr. Anurag Kashyap, Principal, BNCA; Dr. Vaishali Anagal, project coordinator, Dr. Sujata Karve and Dr. Sharvey Dhongde as Indian Academic partners and Engg. Jayant Inamdar as a representative of Industry partner, PCERF, Pune visited LJMU, UK for the training program. Dr. Vaishali Anagal presented the findings of the research at LJMU, UK during the training program.
The training of the trainers’ program offered BNCA faculty and industry representatives insights into construction practices, technological advances, integration of digital technologies in construction, safety parameters, and construction project management practices adopted in UK. It also offered exposure to advanced technologies used for teaching and learning at undergraduate, and post-graduate programs and for research.
