Apart from a few short-term programmes, academic staff colleges set up for teachers' training basically offer

Academic staff colleges chiefly offer both subject-specific refresher courses and general orientation programmes for teachers.

Subject-specific refresher courses alone are only part of what they provide.

General orientation programmes alone likewise form only one part.

A blanket denial does not apply because real programmes are offered.

These colleges support the professional development of college and university teachers.

They are now often reorganised as Human Resource Development Centres.