Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 15: In the 15th Academic Council Meeting of Central University Jammu, which was held today under the chairmanship of Vice Chancellor Prof Sanjeev Jain, several key initiatives were ratified.
The Academic Council ratified the initiative to make students self-reliant and develop their creativity and skills during their stay in the university through Earn While You Learn (EWYL) scheme wherein hands-on experience will be given to students to develop them for future jobs and to encourage them for diversification of activities beyond the syllabus. EWYL has been introduced for meritorious and needy students enrolled in the Central University of Jammu.
Other notable decisions ratified in the meeting, included e-content development to enhance access to University’s academic programs by leveraging information and communication technology for massive outreach, through high quality teaching pedagogy by the university faculty and implementation of Moodle learning management System (LMS) to enhance teaching-learning process.
Further, decision regarding Research internship with the aim at providing hands on training in advanced research tools, techniques, methodologies, equipments and learning various other aspects in pursuing quality research was also ratified. The AC ratified the introduction of NCC as elective course and Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala to act as a mentor for the dual degree Engineering Courses.
Dr Yashwant Singh, Registrar, presented 23 items in the meeting. Ratifying various items, the 15th AC also confirmed the minutes of the 14 meeting of Academic Council.
In his opening remarks, Vice-Chancellor Prof Jain shared his vision of attaining institutional excellence and underscored the relevance of National Education Policy (NEP 2020) which transcends disciplinary boundaries and empowers the learner to imbibe learning through innovative inter-disciplinary and trans-disciplinary process. He also extended a warm welcome to Prof Varun Sahni, Member Expert and other members of AC for guiding and working relentlessly for the growth of CUJ.
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