Message from the Director Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the
mind to think. – Albert Einstein The Higher Education of the country has been in news during the
recent years for both its productive and nonproductive dimensions. As
reasonable stakeholders, this scenario compels us to think of the shifts and
transformations which are immediately needed for change, progress, development
and excellence. In fact, a lot of attention has now been paid towards improving
the status & standards of the contemporary Educational system by adopting
the NEP (New Educational Policy 2020) which primarily focuses on affordability, accessibility, quality, equity, and
accountability in order to ensure continual learning. Already the ambitious scheme of RUSA (Rashtriya Ucchatar Shiksha Abhiyan) has given impetus to higher
education all across the country. In the union territory of Jammu & Kashmir,
the higher education sector has also expanded heavily during the previous
decade as numerous colleges and university campuses have been set up in every
nook and corner, which has made higher education accessible to all sections of
the society. But, this has adversely affected the quality of education in these
institutions. Though various new and market-friendly courses are offered in these
institutions of higher learning, yet the supply of skilled manpower is not
fulfilling the demand of the society. At Present, North campus, University of Kashmir, offers Six
programmes for study and research. All these
Programmes are market-friendly and have a lot of potential in the job market of
the country and abroad. We are in the process of offering more such courses so
that our youth gets easily employed. For this purpose, the campus needs infrastructural
development in all its various departments. The biggest asset of this campus is
its dedicated and learned faculty and ever enthusiastic students. We have
initiated very healthy practices of learning and research from this academic
session. Our aim is to develop all the faculties in our scholars and students
and make them proud citizens of the nation who can bravely and wisely face all
challenges. Sports activities, debates, seminars, guest lectures, workshops
have to be a hallmark of the campus as these enhance self confidence and self
esteem among our learners and also provide a conducive aura to the teachers to
evolve. The North Campus has a freestanding Research Centre headed by
the senior most faculty member of the campus. It strives to conduct the original
and updated research in Humanities, Computer Sciences, Management, Teacher
Education, and Computer Science & Engineering. Indeed, the researchers and
the scholars of this Centre come from diverse backgrounds for conducting
research which has an academic, industrial and societal relevance. The campus aims to provide accommodation to all the desirous
students, scholars and the faculty members, and preparations are afoot in this
direction with the concerned authorities. It is hoped that with the cooperation of all stake- holders, North
campus of the University will eventually become a center of excellence especially
in research and all those learners who particularly come from far flung areas
shall feel proud to be a part of this institution of higher learning. Finally, I wish this institution to emerge soon as North Kashmir
University. Sd/- Prof. Bashir Ahmad Ganai Director