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Urdu medium school at Jamia Millia soon

Parul Sharma

NEW DELHI: Hoping to accommodate Muslim girls who have had to discontinue their studies and fall out of mainstream education for different reasons, Jamia Millia Islamia here will soon start an Urdu medium school exclusively for young women.

To be named “Jamia Girls’ Senior Secondary School”, the new facility is proposed to be started by April this year.

A pet project of Vice-Chancellor Mushirul Hasan, the proposal for the new school from Class IX-XII was cleared by Jamia’s Academic Council at its meeting on February 19.

“There will be no bar on the upper age limit of the girls. It will not matter how much gap has been in their studies. This way we can pick up those who have fallen by the wayside in mainstream education. This initiative has been taken under the Academy for Professional Development of Urdu Medium Teachers at Jamia. The target will be those Muslim girls who appear as private students in Jamia’s schools as well as those studying in madrasas,” said the University media coordinator.

All-girls school

The all-girls school will be housed in the new building coming up in the Jamia school campus. Currently Jamia is running three schools – all of them co-educational — under its umbrella. The new school will recruit only women in both teaching and administrative positions. There will be an entrance test in Urdu for the students as well as their educators.

“From April 2008, admissions will be open for classes IX and XI to begin with, which will have four and three sections respectively. Both students and teachers will be tested in the Urdu language since it has been found that the standard of Urdu medium schools is weak because often teachers are not from the Urdu medium backgrounds,” she pointed out.

The new school will follow the syllabus as prescribed by the Central Board of Secondary Education and use books of the National Council of Educational Research and Training prepared in Urdu.

Details like fee structure, number of teachers and their salaries are still being worked out and will be decided shortly.

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