IIT-Kharagpur is setting up an Academy of Leadership

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur is setting up an Academy of Leadership. The academy is going to develop innovative programmes that would combine the core curricula in science and engineering disciplines with philosophy, reasoning, and liberal arts. The institute has already received donation of $1 million from Partha S Ghosh, an alumnus and a management consultant.

“It is indeed an opportune time to expand the scope of the value proposition of the academic excellence at IIT Kharagpur by developing the next phase education process. This is to be based not only on scientific and technical training, but the teachings of ancient philosophies, reasoning, intuitive thinking, systems engineering and the past successes and failures of humanity,” said P P Chakrabarti, director, IIT Kharagpur.

“I firmly believe that in the next 25 years the world economy will undergo profound changes which civilization has never experienced before. Industries and governments will need to reinvent the basic tenets of capitalism implying fundamental transformation of industry and economic models,” said Ghosh, currently teaching faculty at Tufts University.