Four Week General Orientation Programme concluded at GNDU

Amritsar,  January 11 (Punjab Post Bureau) – A “Four Week General Orientation Programme-100” concluded here today at the UGC-Human Resource Development Centre of the Guru Nanak Dev University. As many as 45 University & College teachers from diverse disciplines from various parts of the country participated.

Prof. S.S. Dhillon, Registrar presided over the valedictory session. Prof. Dhillon in his valedictory address shed light on the various challenges being faced by the higher education in the present scenario. Expressing his deep concern over the increasing number of students opting for higher education abroad, he labelled it as one of the major challenges for all the stakeholders. Firstly it is the duty of the teachers of today to rise to the occasion and to amend the syllabi and curricula in consonance with the rapid changes in order to prevent the younger generation from going abroad for higher education. One of the major challenges is to get rid of malaise, he opined. All the stakeholders need to put their act together to bring the quality of higher education in the country at par with international standards, so that the brain drain in the form of young generation is halted, he continued. And the sooner, the better, he emphasized. We haven’t managed to establish a system of higher education even after seven decades of independence, which genuinely meets the aspirations of our youth, he rued. He concluded his address by exhorting the young faculty members to shoulder this responsibility to the best of their abilities in order to do full justice not ony to their profession, but also to the society at large.

Prof. Amarjit Singh Sidhu expressed his profound pleasure over the successful completion of the Programme and felicitated the participants on this occasion. Although such programmes are meant to fulfill the mandatory conditions for the academic furtherance of the teachers, but at the same time they are designed in such a way that the pedagogical skills, competence, expertise of the participants are also enhanced to a large extent, he added. The participants profusely thanked the entire team of the HRDC this endeavour and shared their experiences.  Earlier the Chief Guest was accorded a floral welcome by Prof. Amarjit Singh Sidhu & Dr. Mohan Kumar. At the end the certificates were distributed to the successful participants by the Chief Guest. Dr. Mohan Kumar proposed the vote of thanks.