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New faculties for Jamia Millia

In her capacity as Visitor of Jamia Millia Islamia, President Pratibha Patil recently gave her approval for creation of two new faculties on the campus.

Ms. Patil assented to amendment of the existing Statute 17 of the Jamia Millia Islamia Act, 1988, for creation of a Faculty of Fine Arts.

Until now the Department of Fine Arts existed under the Faculty of Education.

It will now be a full-fledged faculty in its own right.

A further amendment to Clause (3) of Statute 20 has also been approved by the President for addition of the following new departments in the newly created Faculty of Fine Arts: the Departments of Painting, Sculpture, Applied Art, Art Education, Graphic Art and Art History and Art Appreciation.

The President has also given her assent for creation of a Faculty of Dentistry.

With this, the number of faculties at Jamia Millia has gone up to nine from the existing seven.

Delhi University’s Daulat Ram College celebrated its 47th Annual Day early this week and Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit graced the occasion. Vice-Chancellor Deepak Pental was the guest of honour.

Ms. Dikshit released the college magazine and inaugurated an exhibition.

She also gave away prizes to the meritorious students and position holders in the University.

NIIT, Asia’s Number One trainer and leading global talent development corporation, has been conferred the “Top Training Company Award 2007” by the Cybermedia group.

NIIT CEO Vijay K. Thadani received the trophy at a ceremony in the Capital recently.

Indian School of Business and Finance held a debate recently on the proposed Indo-US nuclear deal on its campus. Eminent personalities like senior Congress leader Salman Khursheed, Samata Party leader Jaya Jaitley and Jawaharlal Nehru University professor Chintamani Mahapatra participated in the debate.

“The idea behind organising such debates is to get the students involved in issues of national importance and help them establish independent thinking,” said ISBF director J. S. Chadha.

The Korea Labour Education Institute (KLEI), Kwangju, Republic of Korea, signed a memorandum of understanding recently with the International Management Institute (IMI) on collaborating and providing education to the interested parties in the Asian region.

Both institutes have agreed to cooperate in developing a new project of education and training for sound labour-management relations and sustainable economic development in their countries.

International Management Institute director C. S. Venkataratnam and KLEI president Sun Han Seung agreed to establish a cooperative relationship according to their respective roles and competencies.

Parul Sharma