Dr.Shyam Sunder Pancholi is presently serving as Executive Dean, Faculty of Pharmacy & Faculty of Science at Ganpat University, Guni. With a blend of industrial, academic and research experience exceeding 25 years, he has worked in different capacities contributing to syllabus design, quality teaching and accreditation processes, and leading the team for ISO and GMP certification in industry. He has to his credit 2 Indian Patents published, and is on Editorial and advisory board of scientific journals of repute and is active life member of APTI, ICS and IPA. 

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How would you describe your leadership style?

“Establishing participation and innovation”

I believe in leading by example and empowering each team member to accomplish the desired objectives so that everyone enjoys the successful achievement of institutional goals and derives satisfaction out of it. The decision-making is mostly participative, and objectives are mutually agreed and accepted as team goals. At our University, the staff members and even students are given freedom to innovate while executing the plans. As a leader I believe that the unique qualities of each team member should be identified and appreciated. I see to it that each team member excels by providing all needed support to achieve the best against all odds.

What are your opinions on the New Education Policy 2020?

“Futuristic transformation of Indian Education System”

The NEP declared in 2020 foresees many innovations in teaching-learning and examination pedagogies. The focus is shifting from making every student knowledgeable about all subjects superficially to help them attain specific competencies and skills. The emphasis is on empowering the learner with desired knowledge and providing practice opportunities to master the skills. We are witnessing an enormous level of digital involvement in industries including pharmaceuticals with a surge of AI and ML innovations. 

What approaches do you bring in apart from the curriculum to train the students?

“Frequent industrial exposure and subject training”

The teaching and training in pharmacy aims to provide understanding of fundamentals and developing ability to apply the knowledge in real situations. The pharmaceutical products are highly sensitive and need utmost precision during all stages of manufacturing, distribution, storage and dispensing as well as usage. We instill the concepts in the students by exposing them to real-time production environments in the FDCA approved manufacturing unit functioning within the college premises. The group discussion on the problem handling situations and presentations of outcomes before the industry experts helps them appreciate different aspects of formulation or process issues. The regular visits to industry and panel discussion, expert talks of renowned professionals help the students in keeping abreast with latest developments in the pharma arena. The innovations are supported and rewarded, students are mentored to express and present their ideas on different platforms.

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What do you think should be the University's top priority over the next 10 years?

“Improvement in quality, innovation, opportunities and environment”

The higher education institutes in India owe a responsibility to improve the quality of education to meet the global standards and make it accessible to masses. We are working forward to improve student recruitment by offering options of financial sustainability and enrich the academic curriculum based on sound analysis of the needs of students and future employers, and make that workforce driven. Also, we aspire to embrace next generation technologies and develop modes of delivery that are

more effective and readily acceptable to students. The industrial and research collaborations for taking up projects addressing the issues of food, health, digital infrastructure, genetics and environment are already in the pipeline. We are giving due diligence to evolve a culture that is mutually supportive and fuels a passion for lifetime learning.

What would you say are the best practices in the course you’re offering?

“Student-oriented teaching and industrial pedagogy”

Pharmacy education in India is among the most advanced globally accepted industry-oriented courses, developed and regulated by Pharmacy council of India. We at Ganpat University believe in student first philosophy with a motto of serving the society through education. We implement the curricula in such a manner that it inculcates social responsibility among students along with learning at state of art facilities. Our teachers under mentoring responsibility of each student to counsel on a one-to-one basis to resolve individual academic as well as career planning related issues. We offer every student exposure to advanced instruments in well-equipped laboratories. A unique feature of our institute is provision of shop floor training to students at our in-house FDCA approved fully functional pharmaceutical manufacturing unit. We also allow our students to work on Government and industry sponsored projects.

How do you tend to establish a healthy environment in your University?

“Cooperation, communication and social assistance”

The soul of the University is our culture of nurturing a family like teacher student relation. The mechanisms are established to ensure a warm welcome and handholding to new entrants in the campus by involving them with senior students and teachers during various celebrations. Student support services are very well developed at our institute. Voluntary service activities are organized regularly whereby students reach out to the nearby community to make aware rural people about health, hygiene, and other social issues. The students are encouraged to sharpen and display their talent in art, cultural, social and scientific field with a compassionate handholding. The parents of students and alumni of the college participate in different committees and contribute to establish a healthy environment.

How do you plan to cope with the increasing competition in the outside world?

“Upgrading facilities and skills of faculty with the changing environments”

Pharmacy education has to evolve and match with the futuristic expectations of the healthcare industry to contribute to faster discoveries of safer new drugs. We are updating ourselves and equipping the facilities to enable our students to develop competencies and skills to handle newer computational drug design and clinical research methods based on in-silico experiments. We also motivate faculty to upgrade their skills and help students understand and win over the challenges of the future. Ganpat university harbors several industry supported Centers of excellence, Pharmacy faculty is also collaborating with healthcare and pharmaceutical industries to establish one such CoE in Pharmaceutical research to support nearby micro, small and middle scale enterprises in surrounding region. 

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Any suggestions you would like to give to the aspiring students?

“Your decisions lay foundation of your future, choose wisely”

The young students confronting the situation of selecting a career path and choosing an appropriate course to pursue should give diligent thought to their own interests and capabilities. One should not make such a significant decision looking at the majority of prevailing trends. Every branch of higher studies requires a pre-knowledge of certain subjects and offers an opportunity to specialize and prepare you for taking up a certain career path. Professional education is undergoing a transformation and therefore needs you to adapt to challenging demands, prepare yourself well. Make a well informed decision while selecting a course to pursue not only looking to the future prospects in that field but also your own interest and adaptability to the condition of employment in that sector.