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JAMMU: Four-week long UGC HRDC General Orientation Course for college and university teachers commenced here on Monday in the Department of Home Science, University of Jammu.
On the occasion, Prof Rahul Gupta, Dean Mathematical Sciences, University of Jammu, was the Chief Guest.
Speaking on this occasion, Prof Rahul Gupta stressed on the need of updating knowledge, enrichment and experience sharing through organised systematic work. He stressed on the need of organising and attending such courses on regular basis to get varied experiences and broad understanding of various subjects.
Prof J.P.S Joorel, Director, HRDC, University of Jammu, deliberated on the specification regarding the orientation course and assured all help to the participants. He also apprised the participants about the need of attending all the sessions, as this is a prerequisite of the course. If a participant fails to complete the requisite contact hours, he/she has to make up for the backlog in the other programme by HRDC, he added.
Prof Rajni Dhingra, Senior faculty member of Department of Home Science and former Dean Faculty of Science, motivated the participants especially the outstation participants to participate in such courses to benefit from the varied experiences.
Prof Neeru Sharma, HoD Home Science emphasised on the need of active participation of all attending teachers. She mentioned that the department will render all help and facilities to the participants.
Earlier in her welcome address, Dr Samridhi Arora, Course Coordinator apprised the participants with various facets and issues to be covered as part of the course like research and teaching ethics, plagiarism, quality assurance, value education, holistic health, women empowerment and development, administration and financial/service/leave rules and regulations, examination reforms (CBCS), environment, research methodology, communication skills and IT and professional development of teachers in higher education.
Dr Sarika Manhas, Course Co-coordinator underlined the importance of regular updating of academic knowledge by teachers.
Ranjeet Kalra, Assistant Director, UGC HRDC, JU presented vote of thanks. The programme was conducted by Sonali Sharma, Research Scholar of the Department of Home Science.
