1st Higher Education Leadership Awards – HELA 2018

Venus International Foundation, a well-known educational society has recognised the services of Mr.Gaurang Patkar, HOD-Computer Engineering, Don Bosco College of Engineering and conferred the Young Leader award in the International Higher Education Leadership Meet 2018, held in Chennai.

The Centre for Leadership Development (CLD) of Venus International Foundation (VIF) organized a full day Higher Education Leadership Meet on 6^th January 2018. It was the 1^st Meet and was attended by 60 participants (representing 5 Countries: from Oman, Jordan, UAE, Malaysia, India and Uzbekistan) employed in a higher education sector at the capacity of Department Chair/Division Head, Vice Principal, Principal, Dean and Director’ and working in the frontiers of (i) Agricultural Science (ii) Engineering (iii) Health and Medical Sciences (iv) Humanities and Social Science (v) Management (vi) Science (vii) Veterinary and Animal Science. The Leadership Meet provided an opportunity for participants to share knowledge and explore the Groundbreaking strategies, Influential Trends, and best practices that define effective leadership at the College and University levels today. In the Inaugural session , Mrs. M. S Sudha – Program Chair of the meet welcomed the gathering. Dr. Arockiasamy S, University of Nizwa, Sultanate of Oman delivered the presidential address. Further, Prof. (Dr.) Debadatta Panigrahi, RAK Medical and Health Sciences University, United Arab Emirates and Dr. Mubashir Bashir Angolkar, KLE University, India delivered the special address.