Leadership-training Programme Launched

Updated on: Saturday, September 24, 2011

GEMS Education, K-12 (Kindergarten to class 12, K-12) private education provider, founded by Padmashri recipient and Dubai-based Indian business man Sunny Varkey, has announced its partnership with The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) to undertake a leadership-training programme, wherein 10,000 school principals will be trained globally.

The first phase of the programme will involve India, Kenya and Ghana. Over a period of four years 10,000 school principals will be trained in these countries. In India, 3500 principals will be trained under the ‘Leadership Programme’.

In developing countries like India, there is very little or negligible training programme for school principals, which in many ways has hampered the effective delivery of education. Therefore, there is an urgent need of leadership training for principals that will help them improve their skills in school management and, thus, enabling them to innovate and offer much more effective and efficient learning at all level of education – benefiting thousands of teachers and millions of students.

GEMS Education will undertake this leadership-training programme through its not-for-profit organisation – The Varkey GEMS Foundation, which is established to improve access to education for 10 million underprivileged children worldwide. This initiative is part of the Varkey GEMS Foundation’s commitment to action the ’10,000 Principals Leadership Programme’, announced by former president of United States of America, Bill Clinton at the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting in New York, USA, on September 22, 2011. Bill Clinton is the honorary chair of the Varkey GEMS Foundation.

Leadership-training Programme Launched

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