JMC receives quality certificates

Kathmandu, Dec. 25

Janamaitri Multiple Campus, one of the first campuses in the Kathmandu Valley to receive the quality assurance certificate from the University Grant Commission (UGC), has announced that it will support the students from the deprived community in pursuing their higher education.

"Janamairti is a non-profit and community-based higher education institution which aims at developing knowledgeable and skilful human resources," Chief of the campus Bhola Nath Ojha said at a press conference organised to inform about the Quality Assurance and Accreditation (QAA) Certification from the UGC.

The campus has received the quality certification for the quality infrastructure and facilities, and teaching-learning activities, therefore, it is the student who will be ultimately benefitted, he said.

Janamaitri Campus was established about three decades ago and has been offering programmes on social work, mass communication, psychology, management, computer application, ICT and business for graduate and post-graduate level. About 1,500 students from 63 districts are currently pursuing their higher education in the campus.

The campus that had lost all its buildings in the devastating earthquake in 2015 had shown resilience and managed the required teaching-learning infrastructure, including building and labs within four years after the quake.

Chairman of the Campus Management Board Dr. Dilli Raj Khanal said that the campus had proved it best in terms of education policy and process, curriculum, teaching-learning and evaluation, research, consultation and extension, infrastructure and learning resources, physical facilities, student guidelines and information system.

Janamaitri is one of the first two campuses that received the QAA certification in the Kathmandu Valley.

Jana Bhawana Multiple Campus in Lalitpur, Kabhre Multiple Campus in Kavre and Kanchan Bidya Mandir in Kanchanpur have also received the certificate. The UGC had awarded them the certificates in a programme organised at its office in Bhaktapur on Monday.

QAA is a process of quality assurance whereby a programme in an institution is critically apprised at intervals not exceeding five years to verify that the institution or the programme meets the norms and standards prescribe by the QAA Committee.

The UGC said that the QAA provided opportunities for institutions and their programmes to assess their performances and weaknesses.

Published in The Rising Nepal daily on 26 December 2019.