Bharathidasan University’s UGC-Malaviya Mission Teacher Training Centre is conducting a week-long programme on Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS) for college teachers from across higher education institutions.

The UGC-sponsored online short-term programme is being held from August 18 to 24, with around 100 teachers from government, government-aided and self-financing colleges and deemed universities participating. The participants represent different academic disciplines.

The programme is part of the University Grants Commission’s wider push to familiarise faculty members with Indian Knowledge Systems and explore ways of incorporating them into classroom teaching. The UGC's IKS faculty-training guidelines call for teachers to understand IKS and identify ways to integrate it into teaching across disciplines.

The UGC's IKS framework covers areas including Indian philosophical traditions, mathematics, medicine, astronomy, linguistics, agriculture, architecture, ethics and the arts. Its training framework also covers the sources and classification of IKS knowledge, traditional texts and methods of inquiry.

Bharathidasan University has previously conducted programmes focused on integrating IKS into higher education curricula. In February, its Malaviya Mission Teacher Training Centre held a six-day capacity-building programme for faculty members and research scholars, with sessions on different dimensions of IKS and its integration into undergraduate curricula.

The university's teacher training centre operates under the UGC's Malaviya Mission Teacher Training Programme, which aims to strengthen faculty capacity and teaching practices in higher education. Bharathidasan University is accredited A+ by NAAC and was ranked 36th among Indian universities in the NIRF 2025 rankings.