Category: Education

MANUU Launches Online Learning Channel

Hyderabad: Launching learning into cyberspace, Hyderabad-based Maulana Azad National Urdu University’s YouTube channel for higher education went live recently. The channel, an initiative of the university’s Instructional Media Centre (IMC), is expected to reach over 80,000 students who have enrolled in various courses which are in different stages of completion in the distance mode. University…

Diploma in Unani Pharmacy at Jamia

New Delhi: In a first for a Central University, Jamia Millia Islamia has started a Diploma course  in Unani Pharmacy and has also launched a Unani medicine laboratory and a mobile van dispensary in recognition of the services rendered to the field of Unani Medicine and to the university by one of its founders, the renowned Hakim…

Uttarakhand Madrassas to Teach Sanskrit

Dehradun: The lower committee of Uttarakhand Madrassa Education Board (UMEB) has given its nod to a proposal seeking inclusion of Sanskrit and Computer Science as optional subjects in madrassas all over the state from the next academic session. At present, madrassas in the state offer Maths, Science, Ayush and Social Science as optional subjects. A…

Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN)

Not even a single course proposal was submitted by Jamia Hamdard and MANUU under the Global Initiative Program. At least 187 different universities across India submitted hundreds of proposals to conduct different courses under the Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN) in order to garner the best international experience into the educational system in the…

Software Freedom Marathon

Jodhpur: The Maulana Azad University here organized a Free Software Marathon in the third week of September to lend its support to universal plea for free access to software. Mr. Puneet Rao, Director, Technosoft and Secretary, Software Technology Association of Rajasthan was the chief guest at the meeting held at the occasion on September 16.…