Human Resource Development has become the primary task around the world. In the past few decades in order to increase the quantity, HRD activities has been shared in the private sector too. With the private participation the quantity has gone up considerably while the quality remains the same. The growth in higher learning institutions has been considerable particularly with the involvement of Information Technology and Information Technology Enabled services.

In the teaching-learning process, it has been a teacher centric and with the advent of Information Technology and IT-enabled services, teaching-learning process has undergone a sea change. Changing complexities of Teaching – learning process, the changing complexities in the definition of student and obsolescence that pervades the teacher, new solution is needed which is student-centric. Changing educational environment makes the learning process more complicated.

Distinguished academicians have joined together under the umbrella of Commonwealth Science and Technology Academy for Research (C-STAR) and proposed to ensure a new dimension in the teaching-learning process in order to make the learning process a dynamic one and a process to offer a viable alternative that would meet the challenges that are being confronted in the educational process.

In order to achieve the desired objectives in the field of Science and Technology, the academy would promote undertaking of research in the academic institutions, thereby strengthening the foundations of educational process.

The institutions which are willing to tackle the challenges in the teaching-learning process may join this Academy in order to improve the quality of education and to improve the standard of research to strengthen the foundations of educational process.

With the present day advancements in technology and with the evolution of new technologies and innovations, this academy steps into the educational process at the right time in order to provide a long lasting solutions which are strong in foundations and dynamic in nature.

This academy is the pool of scholars, teachers, innovators, policy makers and students which in other terms, a commonwealth of Knowledge to achieve solutions for the complex challenges that the educational institutions are confronting with.

Evolving sustainable solutions to continuously improve the quality in educational process would be the motto of the academy. Scientists across the globe have evinced keen interest in this Himalayan task and are willing to join this academy in achieving the set goal. There are many institutions who have shown keen interest in taking part in the activities of the academy in order to raise the quality and standard of academic institutions.