In terms of the number of seats and programmes offered, GGSIPU is only second to DU. Are you planning to introduce some new courses from this academic year?
MBA and BBA courses in financial management have already been introduced and the new ones will be introduced soon are: Master in pharmacy, M Tech in food processing technology and diploma in education management. We decided to offer these courses taking into consideration of the nation's need and the ample opportunities that exist in all these fields.
What special facilities do you provide to the students?
As IPU is a university with a number of affiliated colleges, it plays a double role. On the affiliated colleges’ front, we have made it mandatory for them to provide in addition to class room teaching, good library, computing, canteen and extra-curricular facilities for the benefit of the students studying on those colleges. Whereas the students studying in the campus schools, has hostel facilities for 400 boys and 400 girls enrolled in 11 different schools. They are also provided with all short of indoor-outdoor games facilities, facilitating environment to perform and conduct different cultural activities etc. There are two canteens on the campus and each of the four hostels has their own messing facilities which are managed by the students themselves.
Is IPU taking steps to promote girl education?
More than 50 per cent students enrolled in the University are girl students and over 50 per cent faculty members are women. The all-girl student- Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology will soon be converted to Women's University of Technical Education by the government of NCT, New Delhi.
Brief us about the educational challenges India is facing presently.
Everyone is talking these days how to increase our country's gross enrollment ratio from presently 17 per cent to 32 per cent. But then the major challenge is how to achieve it with the assurance of quality education. Otherwise we may open up colleges under PPP mode but they may shut down due to non availability of students. No student would like to study in a below standard educational Institutions. The second major challenge is how regularly to augment effective faculty members to these institutions.
Do you have any educational programmes for University teachers?
There are programmes wherein we send our teachers for training to various educational institutions within the country. We are now working with the number of foreign universities and are likely to send 20-25 faculty members abroad for a period of three to six months. This will help them gaining experience, international exposure, academic work culture and be better equipped to teach our students. We are also in the process of organising faculty development programmes in the GGS IP University campus for the university and affiliated college teachers.
Now that you are at a new and a much larger campus at Dwarka, are there any plans for expansion in the offing?
When IPU was at Kashmere Gate, it neither gave the look or the feel of an established university. But at Dwarka campus, there are available built up space to set up more classes and state of the art laboratories. As this campus is close to Gurgaon, our students can get the benefit of corporate interactions. Moreover, its proximity to the international airport adds to the location advantage. Plans are underway for an auditorium and, at least, two to three more buildings to establish new centre of excellence for research. As IPU has another campus in Surajmal Vihar, East of Delhi we intend to shift there the College of Architecture and Planning and to start the School of Design and that would be done as and when the construction of the buildings would be over.
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