BHU inks MoU with Competitiveness Mindset Institute to train students on ethical leadership

BHU has already launched the FLY training program across faculties for the academic session 2024-25.

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Banaras Hindu University (BHU) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Competitiveness Mindset Institute – India to train students on ethical leadership.

The Finding Leader in You Scholar (FLY Scholar) programme is an initiative that has significantly benefited hundreds of students of the university, BHU claims.

Over 1300 students have received the FLY training over the past one and a half years, since the start of the programme in BHU. The training, being conducted in collaboration with Competitiveness Mindset Institute, ‘aims to foster a new generation of leaders who are not only skilled and knowledgeable but also deeply committed to ethical principles and social responsibility,’ BHU said in an official release.

As part of the understanding, the institute will teach and build the Big Five Competitiveness non-cognitive skills to students in order to improve effectiveness and performance in class and in the workplace. The institute is hoping that this training will help in building the foundation of skills for ethical leadership and facilitate them in acquiring competitive mindset in order to improve employability.

As part of the MoU, over the course of the next three years, students will also be offered training to develop advanced communication skills.

During various sessions of the day-long programme, participants were given several tasks, including identifying various issues and challenges they see as potential problems, defining the problems, taking measures to address the issues. The activities also included making an assessment of the scenarios when measures were taken and when no measures were taken. Senior members of the university shared their insightful inputs as they pondered on various issues they face on a daily basis.

BHU has already launched the FLY training programme across faculties for the academic session 2024-25. Currently, three cohorts are underway in Mahila Mahavidyalaya, the Faculty of Social Sciences, and the College of Nursing, with 120 participants. The batches comprising 110 students in the Institute of Management Studies have already completed their training. Prof. Lalita Vatta, Coordinator for FLY programs in the university, informed that training for three batches comprising nearly 120 students of the Institute of Agricultural Sciences will be taking place from August 4 to 7.