The Kashmir Pulse

SRINAGAR — The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Kashmir, Prof Nilofer Khan on Monday chaired the Admission Advisory Committee to review the varsity’s preparedness for admissions to various PG programmes and other professional courses for the academic session 2023.

In her opening remarks, Prof Nilofer said the University’s admission process is recognized in academic and social circles as completely transparent and it is, therefore, important to maintain this benchmark through and through.

Asserting that the standard of the admission process has a direct bearing on the reputation and image of the institution, the Vice-Chancellor emphasized the need to make greater use of technological advancements to ease the admission process right from submission of online applications by the aspirants to declaration of the results.

After threadbare discussions on various issues, the Advisory Committee decided that the University’s Directorate of Admissions and Competitive Examinations (DACE) will invite online application forms for admission to all programmes offered through the University of Kashmir in the 3rd week of March 2023, following which the Entrance Test shall be conducted in the last week of April 2023.

For the convenience of aspirants hailing from far-off areas of Jammu and Kashmir, the Vice-Chancellor instructed that besides the main campus, the entrance examination shall be conducted at all satellite campuses of the University including South Campus (Anantnag), North Campus (Baramulla) and Kupwara Campus for the session 2023.

“Our endeavor should be to take the admission process to the doorsteps of the aspirants,” she said.

Calling for close monitoring of the Entrance Test by observers on the entrance test days, Prof Nilofer instructed that efforts should be made to ensure that the entire admission process culminates within the set timelines so that the academic session starts in time and the degrees are eventually awarded to the students in time.

The meeting was attended by the Dean of Academic Affairs, Prof F A Masoodi; Dean of College Development Council, Prof Khurshid A Butt; Registrar, Dr. Nisar A Mir; Director of Admissions, Prof Farooq A Mir; Controller of Examinations, Dr Majid Zaman; In-Charge Director IT, Dr. Maroof Qadri, besides other members of the Admission Advisory Committee.

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SRINAGAR — Indira Gandhi National Open University has started the admission process for its various academic programs for the July 2022 admission cycle. Some of the recently launched programs are MSC in Environmental Science (MSCENV), Masters in Journalism and Mass Communication (MAJMC), MSC in Information Security (MSCIS), Masters in Urdu (MAUD) and various undergraduate Honours programs in several academic disciplines.

The university has also got approval from UGC and AICTE for four new MBA programmes; MBA Human Resource Management (MBAHRM), MBA Marketing Management (MBAMM), MBA Finance Management and MBA Operational Management (MBAOM).

Besides, the university has already been running MBA in Banking and Finance, MBA (General) in Open and Distance Learning (ODL) mode and MBA (General) in online mode, the university said in a statement to the news agency Kashmir Dot Com, adding that there is no need to appear in any entrance test to take admission in any of these seven different MBA programmes.

The statement said the revised programme of Masters of Computer Applications (MCA) has also been launched with the approval from UGC and AICTE and will now be of two years duration. "The eligibility for the programme has also been relaxed in terms of having Mathematics as one of the subjects at the UG level and there is also no need to appear in any entrance test to take admission in this programme," it said.

Information regarding the newly launched and other programs offered by IGNOU is available on the official website of IGNOU (www.ignou.ac.in) in a common prospectus, which is also available on the IGNOU Regional Centre Srinagar website (www.rcsrinagar.ignou.ac.in).

Desirous students can use the Samarth portal of IGNOU (https://ignouadmission.samartha.edu.in) to take admission in any of the programmes offered by the university for the July 2022 admission cycle. "The last date for the submission of admission application forms is 31st July 2022," the university said.

For any query, students can visit IGNOU Regional Centre Srinagar or call on 0194-2953017 or send mail to rcsrinagar@ignou.ac.in. "Re-registration for the July 2022 session is also going on and the last date is 30th June 2022," the statement added.

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