IIT to train edu chiefs in mgmt, leadership

While the education department is all set to implement several important policies like the Right to Education (RTE), the eight directors of education from primary to secondary will receive lessons in strategic management and leadership skills, from the Indian Institute of Management in Lucknow, announced a senior education official.

One of the biggest departments in the state administration, the education department, is geared up to introduce a lot of important policies this year from the improving the standards of Kasturi Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas, to conducting activity-based learning in the city.

Now, to turn its heads into better leaders, they will be taught to tackle problems and become effective managers and leaders.

“Such programmes will be extremely useful for the directors of education. Today, our department is one of the biggest and we need to bring in efficiency. With the department taking on important projects, we need the directors to don the roles of leaders,’’ said V Radha, director of the Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyaan.

The state government has recently formed a taskforce for the implementation of the RTE. Secretaries from all the departments of education are members of the taskforce.

“Co ordination with other departments is going to be crucial in implementing RTE,’’ Radha said.