Vision, Mission, Goals and Objectives
With a view to provide/make access to quality education among interested persons and producing visionary and dynamic leadership on development and social engineering the vision, mission, goals and objectives of SDSE are as follow.
Vision
The School of Development and Social Engineering is to be developed as a Centre of Excellence by leading the contemporary academia in the higher education of development and social engineering thereby producing capable human resources with dynamic leadership capability which is dedicated to sustainable human development and social justice in accordance to the goal of Pokhara University of being one of the leading universities in South Asia.
Mission
The mission of the School of Development and Social Engineering is to advance, promote and propel the social, economic, political, cultural, governance, and environmental development of the Nepalese society through teaching, research and study, innovation, training, community and public services, and intellectual leadership in the field of development and social engineering by providing students, researchers and knowledge aspirants a window to the nation, South Asia region and the whole world through development and social engineering.
Goal
Both society and development take the path of evolution and their studies and stock of knowledge take scientific approach, i.e. achieving intellectual insights as well as technical and practical skills needed for the dynamic structure, process and behaviour of development and society through understanding, observation and experiment. Thus, the study of development and society will bring immense stock of knowledge from contemporary disciplinary subjects like economics, geography, law, management, political science, sociology and anthropology as well as natural and environmental sciences into contemporary focus on development and social engineering to address the future need of the professional and academic human resources for development and societal transfiguration. Considering this future requirement of the society, the goal of the School of Development and Social Engineering is to produce professional and academic leaders on development and social engineering with scientific knowledge, intellectual insight, technical know-how, and practical skill (SITP) by cultivating among these leaders the capability and quality of independent thinking, critical analysis, self-awareness, professional competency and academic proficiency, which are based on disciplinary clarity, multidisciplinary distinction and interdisciplinary comprehensiveness. The path of the School of Development and Social Engineering (SDSE) to these goals is to develop it as a Centre of Excellence by excelling teaching, research, publication and outreach and produce junior, mid- and expert level quality human resources that is capable to provide leadership to the contemporary development and social engineering thereby enabling the nation to achieve the desired end of sustainable development and social justice.