The University Grants Commission (UGC) has approved 28 teaching position in the Central University Jamia Milia Islamia for their 4 new departments of studies. The 4 new departments which are, Hospital Management & Hospice Studies, Foreign Languages, Design & Innovation and Environmental Sciences.
The UGC has approved 7 teaching positions in the above mentioned 4 departments of JMI. The positions include 1 post for a Professor, 2 Associate professors and 4 Assistant Professors.
On 29th October 2019, the Vice-Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia, Ms Najma Aktar informed that the 4 departments will be functional shortly while addressing the 99th foundation day of the university.
She has thanked the UGC for approving the 4 new departments which are highly focused to produce employable students in various sectors. The courses will help students to be ready for multiple job-oriented sections as per the current market needs. She also added that in future, the university will take initiatives to add more job-oriented course like these.
Jamia Millia Islamia is hailed as one of the institutes with eminence for its high quality of academics in various sections.
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Previously, she expressed her will to add new-age technical courses such as Big Data, Blockchain, Internet of Things (IoT) and upgrade the courses which are already existing in the university. Talking about introducing the future-oriented course, Ms Aktar spoke about introducing women-oriented course like Nursing so that the female student’s percentage in the university goes up to 50% than the existing 36%.