ROLE OF FDP WORKSHOPS IN ADVANCEMENT, DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSMISSION OF KNOWLEDGE OF HIGHER EDUCATION FACULTY MEMBERS.

The Indian government is continuously introducing reforms to improve the standards of education, to meet the changing needs of the students, and to satisfy the demands of the workplace. Professors today are required to display different types of roles and responsibilities for their professional growth. Time requires the change as with time composition of students, technology and environment is changing with which professors have to adapt with. Keeping all this in mind faculty development programmes are arranged. Researcher has tried to find out effectiveness of FDP workshops through a questionnaire filled from ninety (N=90) faculty members who attended FDP workshops in Delhi which were selected conveniently and purposely from the three workshops organized in Delhi at different times and at different locations thirty members from each were selected as subjects. It was found that FDP workshops have significant positive effect.