CUK V-C inaugurates workshop on ‘faculty dev for SIE, DIET functionaries’

 Vice-Chancellor of Central University of Kashmir (CUK) Prof Mehraj ud Din Mir Monday said the relevance of education imparted at the schools, colleges and universities is being questioned on the reasoning that these institutions are churning out graduates and professionals, majority of whom are not employable.

“We have to address this concerning issue before it gets too late,” Vice-Chancellor said in his presidential address during the inaugural session of the weeklong workshop “faculty development for SIE and DIET functionaries,” organised by the School of Education at Nowgam campus of the university.

   

He however said that there have also been several instances wherein the graduates from Indian universities and colleges have achieved tremendous success in both private and public institutions of other countries and are heading the same. 

Prof Mehraj ud Din Mir said this is the first weeklong workshop organised by the CUK’s department of Teacher education for ‘faculty development of DIET and SIE functionaries.’ 

He said all the topics to be discussed and deliberated during the workshop are important not only for DIET and SIE, but for teachers at every level. He said the workshop is of utmost importance as the universities get their product from the colleges who in turn get the students from the higher secondary schools. “Unless you are not in a position to provide quality education in schools, the product coming out to receive admission in the colleges and subsequently in the varsities, won’t be good enough to make their mark in their respective fields,” Prof. Mehraj ud Din Mir added. 

In his keynote address, Dean School of Education, Prof. N A Nadeem, said this is a very rare occasion, wherein senior functionaries of SIE, DIET, Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education (JKBOSE) and Directorate of School Education Kashmir (DSEK) have assembled together to discuss their problems and issues and will try to resolve them for the betterment of the education system. 

State Governments across the country would be also adopting the same mechanism very soon. He said that there has been some kind of systemic failure in school education system despite having huge potential and infrastructure.

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