Jawaharlal Nehru University Distance Education

The Jawaharlal Nehru University is barely thirty years old inspired by ideals and values that make it stand out as an exceptionally different place of learning. It is a learning place which cherishes ideas as field of adventure, experimentation and respect for diversity of opinions. When formed, the university sought to revolutionize the traditional disciples were formulated with fresh perspectives in the Indian university system.

The Nehruvian ideals and objectives form the bed rock of the university's values which include national integration, social justice, secularism, the democratic way of life, international understanding and scientific approach to the problems of society. However, there is no Jawaharlal Nehru University Distance Education. The University, a 1000 -acre campus is located on the Aravali hill range which was once rugged terrain but now a lush green expanse. Some parts of it host has forests, sustaining a varied species of birds and some forms of wild life.

The JNU campus draws students from all parts of the country and from every group and stratum of society. This is well facilitated since the annual admission tests are simultaneously held at 37 centres spread across the length and breadth of the country, it is also ensured that students from the underprivileged castes and ethic groups are drawn by reserving 22.5 per cent of seats for them. Overseas students are also admitted and their number constitutes some 10 percent of the annual intake. All admission forms can be downloaded, though Jawaharlal Nehru University Distance education courses are not conducted. The Undergraduate Courses of the Jawaharlal University include famous courses Foreign Language courses. Master Degree Courses such as MA, MSc, MBA etc. and Advanced Postgraduate Diploma Courses are of excellent standards with a dedicated faculty for teaching them. Jawaharlal Nehru University School of correspondence has not been established yet.

The Category-C constitutes admission of JRF holders to M.Phil. / Ph.D. and Pre-Ph.D. /Ph.D. programme in Science Schools. The University has only a limited number of seats and the students are directly admitted to Ph.D. programmes. This is either on the basis of viva-voce or written examination and viva-voce both as may be decided by the University both in Monsoon and Winter Semesters in all Schools/Centre.

Jawaharlal Nehru University correspondent courses are not conducted as all the classes are held from the campus. Jawaharlal Nehru University Distance education results are not announced since there are not any correspondence courses. Additionally, direct admission to Ph.D. is also offered in Centre for Comparative Politics and Political Theory, Adult Education, Women's Studies and Study of Discrimination and Exclusion.

Candidates have to check the availability of seats in each Centre/School before they apply for admission in Winter Semester. The admission announcements of the concerned notifications are made separately by the university. Category-B includes direct admissions. Jawaharlal Nehru University correspondent courses admissions are not available. The syllabuses of all the courses are comprehensive, but the Jawaharlal Nehru University Distance education syllabus is amiss.

Besides class room teaching and, library and the laboratories study, it is the personal interaction between students and teachers and among students themselves form an extremely important and lively medium of generation and transmission of knowledge. The annual Students Union elections conducted entirely by students is an important event at the campus with fierce poster and cartoon wars, verbal duels and competitive yet peaceful group meetings.

A number of Centres in the University have been declared by the UGC to be Centres of 'Excellence'. These include Centre for Historical Studies, Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Centre for Political Studies, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Centre for the Study of Regional Development, all in the School of Social Sciences. Additionally, three Science Schools--School of Physical Sciences, School of Life Sciences and School of Environmental Sciences have also been recognized by the UGC as Centers for Excellence. Admission to Jawaharlal Nehru University Distance education is not discussed as there are no correspondence programmes operating from the University.