• Sumathi P

The higher education system in today’s scenario is faced with many challenges like competitiveness, management, financing and quality maintenance. Higher education can be used as a powerful tool to build knowledge based society. Higher education should be viewed as a long-term social investment for the promotion of social cohesion, cultural development, economic growth, equity and justice. Indian higher education system can address itself to the global challenges through maintaining the right balance between the need and the demand of the society through channelizing teaching, research and extension activities. The needs and expectations of the society are changing at a faster rate and hence the quality of higher education needs to be enhanced at a higher level. Quality of the higher education would depend on the quality of all the parameters and stakeholders, be it the students, faculty, staff, infrastructure etc. For attaining quality in these regards, all the processes, systems and policies have to be clearly directed towards making improvements in all the relevant dimensions in a sustained manner. Faculty development is essential for maintaining and developing the skills of higher education employees Faculty development is an indispensable component of institutional effectiveness in higher education. Faculty development will require a larger investment of imagination and resources in order to strategically plan for and address new developments. The developments and changes over the last five decades require a fresh look at the professional development of teachers and teaching. This paper, examines the status of faculty improvement programmes in higher education. The overall discussion in this paper makes an attempt at providing an understanding of the role and the status of faculty improvement programmes in terms of quality higher education. A set of tools has distributed to the teachers and the responses were valued. The data will be analysed using descriptive statistics.ie mean and SD. The results are deducted mainly from the responses of the teachers in higher education. The status of faculty development programmes of higher education has been analysed. A consolidated status also has been deducted and reported. It is felt that the findings of this study will help the institutions, and policy makers to take up necessary action and to move ahead to enrich the teachers and making the higher education better.

Faculty Development, higher education, quality teaching. Globalization.

"status of faculty development programmes of Higher education in Karnataka.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no.14-21, March-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRDL06004.pdf

"status of faculty development programmes of Higher education in Karnataka.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no. pp14-21, March-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRDL06004.pdf