S. Vishnu Sharma
JNU academic affairs seems to have witnessed some noteworthy developments. Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) is said to have brought out academic calendar and the exams are expected to witness completion by 31 July.
Sources say that the academic calendar has received complete approval by all the deans of schools and chairperson of special centres.
JNU academic 2020
Going further, JNU academic activity is expected to pick up pace by end of June. The students are expected to come back to the university by about 25 to 30 June so that they can complete their academic activities.
After the remaining JNU academic activity is over, exams can be held. The resumption of classes is being planned so that students can complete their academics and go for examinations.
Once examinations are over, students will be able to move to the next phase. These exams are to witness completion likely by 31 July.
The next semester for students who are continuing will begin from 1 August. That’s not all about JNU academic activity, sources say that even if the results are not announced by end of July, students can register for the next semester.
The motive behind this is to ensure there is no wastage of time anymore. Already, a lot of time on JNU academic front has gone owing to the lock down, so wasting anymore time is a thing that cannot be done now.
As far as monsoon semester is concerned on JNU academic front, sources say, students can register online, they can register even from their residences.
Another point with regards to JNU academic matters is the the deadline is said to have been extended to 31 December for research scholars. They can submit their research notes by 31 December.
This academic calendar is said to be tentative and depends on how the lock down comes to an end and the guidelines that are received from University Grants Commission.
JNU academic calendar is said to be in line with the calendar brought out by UGC. JNU academic activity in the present time is said to comprise online classes.
The well-known educational institution is said to be conducting online classes for students and also teacher training programmes.
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Entire nation went into a lock down more than a month ago to regulate the problem posed by corona virus outbreak. Matters came to a standstill on the economic front, academic front also had to stall most of its activities.
JNU academic activities too was not an exception. However, with as the restrictions turned flexible in the recent times things are looking towards a restart at the well-known educational institution.
Jawaharlal Nehru University is the foremost university in India, and a world-renowned centre for teaching and research.
Ranked number one in India by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) with a Grade Point of 3.91 (on a scale of 4), JNU was ranked no 3 among all universities in India by the National Institutional Ranking Framework, Government of India, in 2016 and no 2 in 2017.
JNU also received the Best University Award from the President of India in 2017. Still a young university, established by an act of Parliament in 1966, the strength, energy, and reputation of Jawaharlal Nehru University result from the vision that ideas are a field for adventure, experimentation and unceasing quest, and that diversity of opinions are the basis for intellectual exploration.
JNU is the place for the intellectually restless, the insatiably curious, and the mentally rigorous, giving them the space to grow amidst the calmness of an oasis, a green lung within the hustle and bustle and the crowds of the capital city of India.
Coming into being in 1969, three years after its establishment by Parliament, JNU brought frontier disciplines and newer perspectives for old disciplines to the Indian university system.
The excellent teacher-student ratio at 1:10, the mode of instruction which encourages students to explore their own creativity instead of reproducing received knowledge, and of exclusively internal evaluation, were also new to the Indian academic landscape and have stood the test of time.
The very Nehruvian objectives embedded in the founding of the University – ‘national integration, social justice, secularism, the democratic way of life, international understanding and a scientific approach to the problems of society’, had built into them constant and energetic endeavor to renew knowledge through self-questioning.