UGC General Orientation Course begins at KU

Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Dec 21: Academic Staff College of  University of Kashmir  started  a four week long UGC- General Orientation Course (GOC) for University and College teachers  on  the campus Hazratbal Srinagar .
Registrar Kashmir University Professor  Zafar A Reshi  was the chief guest at the inaugural function. He said that the main objectives of Academic Staff Colleges all over the country are to conduct specially designed Academic Staff Orientation programmes for the newly appointed teachers and Refresher Courses for serving teachers to keep abreast of the latest advances in various subjects, exchange expressions with their peers and learn mutually from each others.
Dr Farooq Fayaz, Director, Academic Staff College in his address pointed out that several innovations were incorporated into this orientation course to provide the participants an opportunity to experience teaching-learning pedagogy in different settings and get accustomed to the advancements in multimedia, library and information sciences.