Jamia Millia Islamia University in Delhi gets 1ST woman VC

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NEW DELHI, April 12, 2019 (BSS) – The government of India on Thursday
appointed Professor Nazma Akhtar from the National Institute of Educational
Planning and Administration (NIEPA) as the Vice-Chancellor of Jamia Millia
Islamia University.

With the appointment, the university, which made its modest journey in
1920 at Aligarh, has got a woman Vice-Chancellor in its four-decades old
history, reports said.

Akhtar succeeds Talat Ahmad, who is now serving as the Vice-Chancellor
of the University of Kashmir.

A gold medalist from Aligarh University, Akhtar studied in institutes
such as the universities of Warwick and Nottingham in UK and IIEP-UNESCO in
Paris. She finished her PhD (Education) from Kurukshetra university.

She worked as a consultant with UNESCO, UNICEF, DANIDA (Danish
International Development Agency) and other international organisations.

Ms. Akhtar has four decades of academic scholarship in educational
leadership. She is known for spearheading international educational
administrators’ course for senior officials from 130 countries for more than
15 years at National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration.

Jamia Millia Islamia has become an ensemble of a multilayered
educational system covering all aspects of schooling, under-graduate, post-
graduate, M.Phil/ Ph.D and post-doctoral education.

With nine faculties of learning, 38 teaching and research departments
and over 27 centres of learning and research, the university attracts
brightest young minds from all over the country.

The emergence of Jamia was supported by Gandhiji and Tagore who felt
that Jamia could shape lives of hundreds and thousands of students on the
basis of a shared culture and worldview.

Jamia Millia Islamia will be completing hundred years of its existence
in 2020. In Urdu language, Jamia means University, and Millia means National.
The university is now located at Jamia Nagar in New Delhi.