The University of Delhi has offered an opportunity to its faculty members to go abroad and pursue their Master’s in seven different courses by funding their higher education. “This year, a batch of 24 faculties will go to different universities in the United Kingdom in September,” said Professor Anand Prakash, Dean of International Studies, DU, on Thursday.
The DU will sponsor the course fee and travel expenditure of 24 faculty members who have been selected. “The expenditure per candidate will sum up to around Rs17 lakh, which the university will pay,” the official at International Studies confirmed. The selected faculties will pursue their Master’s in Chemistry, Botany, Mathematics, Economics, Commerce, Zoology and Biotechnology.
The partner universities where the faculties will be going are Nottingham Trent University, University of Birmingham, Nottingham Trent University and Glasgow Caledonian University. All the central Universities are in United Kingdom.
last year, a total of 35 faculty members were sent by the University to pursue their Master’s Degree in International Accountancy, Bio-informatics, Quantitative Genetics, Actuarial Mathematics, Advance Genomics, Nanotechnology , Applied Chemistry and Web Management.
“The selected teachers will have to sign a legal bond with the University according to which they will be bound to complete their course in the stipulated time,” said a source.
“The teachers who are selected will gain expertise in their core areas with the researches during their course tenure abroad and after coming back to varsity, they will use their experience and enhanced knowledge while teaching the DU students,” said a selected teacher.