Quality education is the need of the hour - AMU professor

Quality education is the need of the hour - AMU professor


Aligarh: The concluding session of the 110th Orientation Programme of the University Grants Commission (UGC) Academic Staff College, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) was held recently with Professor C.P.S. Chauhan, Dean Faculty of Social Sciences presiding over the function.

In his presidential address, Professor Chauhan, while outlining the higher education scenario in the country emphasized the need for quality education.

He said that in the age of internet, hard information or subject knowledge alone cannot make one a good teacher. Rather, University/ college teachers should hone their teaching skills and serve as mentors for their students.

The Orientation Programme commenced on March 10, 2010 and 43 participants from Uttar Pradesh, Assam, Maharashtra, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Delhi and Madhya Pradesh attended the course.

Professor A.R. Kidwai, Director, UGC Academic Staff College felicitated the course participants and urged them to gain multiple skills and broaden their mental horizon.

He exhorted them to imbibe and promote the abiding message of social justice, communal harmony and peaceful co-existence as professed and practiced by Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, founder of the AMU and other architects of modern India.

Professor C. P. S. Chauhan gave away certificates to the course participants. The certificates and prizes for good performance in the Essay Writing Competition on "Communal Harmony" were also distributed on this occasion.

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