Monday, 13 June 2016

Jawaharlal Nehru University


Young people in the 42-year-old, goes universities, which has lent strength and energy of the Jawaharlal Nehru University is the vision that the ideas are the area for adventure and experimentation and continued pursuit of a large and diverse views inception. In the early 1970s, when it opened its doors to JNU teachers and students, and disciplinary boundaries and new perspectives in the old disciplines it was brought to the Indian university system. And an excellent teacher and student ratio at 1:10, and the development of education, which encourage students to explore their own creativity instead of re-production of knowledge received, and it was an internal evaluation exclusive new experience on the Indian academic scene. This stood the test of time.

The rugged terrain once the Aravali hill range, where the campus is located 1000 -acre now lush green. Parts of it dense forest hosting, and the sustainability of paradise birdwatcher and some forms of wildlife.

JNU campus is a microcosm of the Indian nation, attracting students from every nook and corner of the country and from every group and layer of society. To make sure that this is the case, it conducts the annual admission tests simultaneously in 37 centers spread across the length and breadth of the country, and special care is taken to draw students from the poorer classes and ethnic groups, book 22.5 per cent of seats for them. Students abroad accounts for about 10 percent of the annual intake. Interspersed students houses and blocks of faculty housing with each other, which confirms the vision of a large Indian family.

Even in the classroom teaching, working in the library, laboratories have a stake in the way of teaching and personal interaction between students and teachers and among students themselves constitute a very important and vital means of generation and transfer of knowledge.