SRINAGAR: Cluster University Srinagar has officially commenced its first batch under the Design Your Degree (DYD) programme while officials of the university interacted with the newly enrolled students.
Designed in alignment with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, the programme aims to offer students flexibility, creativity, and real-world application through curated, interdisciplinary learning.
As per details, the Vice Chancellor Cluster University Srinagar, Prof (Dr) Mohammad Mobin, Controller of Examinations, Prof Khursheed Ahmad Mir, and Dean Academics, Prof (Dr) Seema Naz, interacted with the first batch of students registered for the innovative DYD programme in the Cluster University Srinagar.
The programme will be conducted from Amar Singh College and Government College of Education (IASE), the two constituent colleges of Cluster University Srinagar.
In order to run the DYD programme in its letter and spirit, it necessitates broader and deeper collaborations between the constituent colleges of Cluster University Srinagar, including other lead institutions in the UT and outside.
Prof (Dr) Mohammad Mobin, the Honourable Vice Chancellor, while alleviating the concerns about the DYD programme, assured the students full support from the University in order to meet the needs and demands of this course.
“The programme is in line with and represents the real spirit of NEP-2020 in its curricular, pedagogic and assessment domains,” the Vice Chancellor said. “It is no wonder,” the VC added, “that the students registering for this programme too must have the required attitude for immersing themselves wholeheartedly in this programme.”
Prof Khursheed Mir, Controller of Examinations, congratulated the students for joining the first-of-its-kind innovative DYD programme offered by Cluster University Srinagar.
He said that the programme will surely prove to be a game changer in the lives of students because it is very much attuned to the needs of the present times.
“This programme is unconventional, in itself a disruptive programme in the array of conventional programmes offered by universities around the world,” he said. “In short, it’s doing away with dead theory classrooms and bringing in a real-life curriculum into the university ecosystem,” he concluded.
Prof (Dr) Seema Naz, while highlighting the key features of the programme, said, “The programme curriculum is curated and devised in such a fashion that it would trigger the critical and creative capacities of learners.”
“This programme,” she added, “will also test our institutional capabilities, since its ‘out of the box’ courses like critical thinking, disruptive technologies, digital humanities and problem solving in everyday life are knit with the day-to-day activities of life.” The real-life problems, she continued, “while being brought to the classroom will invoke and incite diverse potentialities and capabilities in learners towards a focused and functional knowledge construction under the guidance of the mentors from diverse backgrounds.”
The official source from Cluster University informed the press that 30 students have already registered for the programme and as soon as the admission formalities are completed, the programme will begin in the designated constituent colleges of the Cluster University as per the specified date. (JKNS)
