• Geetha. A
• Gayathri M S

Faculty Improvement Program is the order of the day because of the growing competencies in the field of education. FIP’s are essential to upgrade the faculty members in making them effective teachers. FIP’s includes seminars, workshops, refresher courses, orientation program, NIMHAN’s training and other short-term courses. The objective of FIP’s is to create a positive impact on their teaching profession, teaching methodology, aids to be used while teaching, enhancing their skills, empathy, positive influence on their psychological behavior and so on., which in turn leads to effective learning on the part of the students. In this digital era, Technology is an inevitable discipline and the faculties are to be trained keeping this in view. FIP’s are important in making faculty to adapt themselves for their changing roles and modifying themselves to the changes in the curriculum. The aim of FIP’s is to support teachers in adapting themselves to the challenges in the field of higher education, improving their teaching skills and in gaining confidence. Though training is inevitable at the initial stages of teaching, however it is needed at all stages of their profession. To study and measure the objective behind, 50 samples were used. Statistical tools like mean, standard deviation and reliability test were used to measure the effectiveness of FIP’s Cronbach alpha output revealed for the sustainable teaching needs adopting more and more FIP’s in an Educational Industry. The benefit of the FIP’s should not be restricted to a particular period, but it has to be carried out throughout their career. Present day students looks for studying teacher rather than studied teacher. It has been found from the present study that there should be more importance for FIP’s for not only improving the academic excellence of the faculty but it should also aim at fostering the social, cultural and ethical values which helps them in moulding the students.

Competencies, Empathy, Inevitable, Moulding, FIP’s

"Faculty Improvement Programmes- its impact on Higher Education", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no.30-42, March-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRDL06007.pdf

"Faculty Improvement Programmes- its impact on Higher Education", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no. pp30-42, March-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRDL06007.pdf