Share your story and shine at JK Monitor!🌟 Welcome to JK Monitor, where every story matters and every achievement is celebrated! We invite you to share the remarkable journey of your life and showcase your accomplishments to the world. Join our exclusive interviews that honor exceptional individuals just like you. JAMMU: The Central University of Jammu in the Board of Studies (BoS), meeting of the Department of Educational Studies, got approval by NCTE to run two Integrated Teacher Education Programs (ITEP) with B.Sc., B.Ed. & B.A., B.Ed., for the secondary level for the upcoming academic session 2026-27. Keeping in view of the ITEP & its nature, rigorous discussion sessions have been organized by the department, under the dynamic leadership of Hon’ble Vice-Chancellor Prof. Sanjeev Jain, by including all the Heads of the Departments of allied disciplines such as Science, Humanities and Social Sciences.
Prof. Jain conveyed his message about the significant meeting, and emphasized that the ITEP is a flag-ship initiative of Government of India, launched under the National Council of Teacher Education (NCTE) in alignment with NEP-2020. It is a dual-major bachelor's degree program, with one major in Education and the other in a disciplinary/interdisciplinary branch of knowledge. He further pointed out that this program is more apt for preparing competent teachers and also to inculcate required capacities such as problem solving, critical thinking, creative thinking, communication skills, ethical and moral reasoning, etc.
Prof. Jain stressed that the higher education of India goes with multidisciplinary programs with the collaboration of inter-departmental involvement by generating more skill-based and employability courses. He appreciated the Department for the new initiative by designating the classrooms as Samvad Kakshas and the Guru-Shishya Parampara. Now the classrooms will be known as Samavad Kakshas and prominent ancient Rishis and their shishyas.
Prof. Asit Mantry, Head, briefed the agendas of BoS and achievements of the department with experts and invited delegates, and also took their consent and constructive suggestions in tuning the schemes of programs of Integrated B.A., B.Ed., & B.Sc., B.Ed. for lucratively executing in the forthcoming session. The aim of the department is to produce competent and good humane teachers, Prof. Mantry said. He also expressed his gratitude to all the heads & faculty members of concerned disciplines for their interest and support in teaching of multidisciplinary courses in the department. Prof. J.N. Baliya, convener of B.Sc., B.Ed. program, has presented about the scheme and its credits across all the semesters. Prof. Suri, CoE, also reflected on the criteria of marks for Major and minor courses to include in the certificates of the program.
During the discussion, Prof. Suram Singh, Dean Academics, reflected on the scheme of programs and also appreciated the way it was designed. Prof. Uday Pratap Singh, Associate Dean, spoke on the eligible criteria and admission procedure through NCET. The experts of BoS who joined through online approved agendas and also appreciated the efforts and achievements of the department under the close monitoring of the Dean and Prof. Jain, Vice-Chancellor.
The experts of BoS Prof. Rajeev Rattan, Prof. Gyanendra Rout, Prof. Laxmidhar Behera approved the agenda points and also praised the concern and commitment of Heads of the allied departments. The Heads of the various Departments such as Prof. Vinay Kumar (Physics), Dr. Sujata Kundan (Chemistry), Prof. Kamlesh Kumar (Mathematics), Prof. Bharat Bhushan (Hindi), Prof. Dinesh Kumar (CSE), Prof. Santap Sanhari Mishra (PPPA), Prof. Niranjna Bhandari (Director, CCRC), Dr. Jai Bhawani Singh (Member), and Dr. Rajesh (English), actively participated and shared their opinions for aligning the course time-tables with their departments to teach courses efficiently without any constraints.
The BoS meeting witnessed active and enthusiastic participation of the faculty members- Prof. J.N. Baliya, Prof. Ritu Bakshi, Dr. Kiran, Dr. Aman, Dr. Ravi Vanguri, Dr. Yad Ram, Dr. Mohan Galgotra, Dr. Nidhi, and Dr. Ravail Singh. The event concluded with the vote of thanks delivered by the convener, Prof. Asit Mantry, Head, Department of Educational Studies.
