Delhi University to offer seven vocational courses from this session

NEW DELHI: Delhi University has decided to launch seven vocational courses with 350 seats in subjects like news production, printing technology, software development

NEW DELHI: Delhi University has decided to launch seven vocational courses with 350 seats in subjects like news production, printing technology, software development and web designing from the current academic session onwards.

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The new courses will be offered at four colleges — Kalindi College, Ramanujan College, Jesus and Mary College and Maharaja Agarsen College.

The registration process for these courses is likely to start from September 1, officials said.

The university’s academic council had last year given a go-ahead to Maharaja Agrasen College, Kalindi College, Jesus and Mary College and Ramanujan College, to introduce these courses.

“The courses being offered at Maharaja Agrasen College will be two-year advanced diploma courses. At the other colleges these will be three-year courses. The university shall announce the detailed schedule for registration and admission to these courses very soon,” said JM Khurana, dean of students’ welfare, Delhi University.

There are 50 seats in each course. “The duration for these courses will be three years and the fee will be similar to other courses like BA (programme) and B.Com,” said officials.

Kalindi College will be offering Bachelors in Vocational Studies courses in printing technology and web designing while Ramanujan College will have Bachelors in Vocational Studies courses in banking and financial services and insurance sector (banking operations) and software development.

At Maharaja Agrasen College, students will have advanced diploma courses in TV programming and news production.

“Jesus and Mary College will offer Bachelors in Vocational Studies courses in healthcare management and retail management and IT,” officials said.

Financial assistance of up to Rs 1.85 crore is also provided by UGC to each of the colleges, which are approved to offer the Bachelors in Vocational Studies programme as under the National Skill Qualification Framework.