Prof. B.R. KUKRETI
Dean,
Faculty of Education and Allied Sciences,
Department of PGDCA
MJP Rohilkhand University Bareilly.
Message
The First and the grandest asset the man could ever have on the earth is
education which helps him realise significantly concrete difference in social
and ethical manifestations when compared with non-human creatures. Nothing but
it is the only education that enables men and women to have a sense of
perception, appreciation, deflection, differentiation in various walks of life.
To say in capsule, it is education that brings life and justifies our existence.
Accordingly after having had a little of this grandest asset, I take it my
privilege with immense pleasure to elucidate the faculty of education & Allied
Sciences which , as also indicated earlier in conceptual perspective, has the
credit of being looked different on the floor of academic height, in minds of
not only classes but masses too.
Of the many faculties existing in MJP Rohilkhand University Bareilly, the
faculty of Education & Allied Sciences resorts to special name and fame on
national map at various avenues with respect to not only need based courses for
the students but also to that of academic zenith. The human and non -human
resources of the faculty have rigorously endeavoured with such an unique
co-ordination and team spirit during the period of merely less than a decade
that it has the prestigious credit of being accredited with A+ grade by the
NAAC. Having a motto of students' benefit at the top, a number of courses find
due place like teacher education with special/ social needs, general education
strengthening social fabric, enabling education with Yoga and information
-communication technology, diagnostic education etc., which by and large reveal
the real meaning of education in general minds of not only classes but masses
too. Like an umbrella the faculty opportune numerous courses of education and
allied nature with a view to helping the youth earn their bread and butter;
develop personality and strengthen the bond of national solidarity.
The faculty has harmonious and exquisite composition of seven
departments/courses which, in turn, inculcate the spirit of real education
through head , hand and heart. As such the faculty is a light falling on the
prism and thereby manifesting seven fascinating colours of happiness and health;
these seven colours are nothing but the departments / courses viz.1) Teacher
Education 2)Social work 3) Applied & Clinical Psychology, 4)Computer Application
5) Applied Philosophy 6)Applied English and 7) Mass communication & Electronic
Journalism. All these are tending with enthusiasm for the fullest development of
student's personality in the modern world of international understanding and
cosmopolitan outlook.
The formal emergence of this faculty with new face comes
in the year 1995, when the then administration of University undertook the
process of restructuring the faculties existing at the campus. But the actual
roots of this faculty in real sense starts in 1986 with a small postgraduate
department (M.Ed.) of education by the active efforts of the then
Vice-Chancellor Prof. B.B.Singh Bisen. It was his keen and untiring endeavour in
the form of a seed sown in soil that in due course of time became colossal to
give too many the bread & butter. Initially this M.Ed. department offering M.Ed.
course started with one reader and one lecturer to accord the decision of the
then Executive council held on May 12,1987. It will not be irrelevant to mention
that in beginning the departmental functioning including office and class were
being smoothly run in single room. In Qualitative perspective the number of
students was only 10.The encouragement of Prof. B.B.Singh Bisen the then Vice
-Chancellor and who was usually known more for his own style of administration
than as a person, was such that motto and aspirations were not at all thwarted
by space-crisis. The qualitative activities went on and the department produced
first N.E.T. Scholar in 1991. It was rigorous effort of the then faculty while
day and night in the field of teaching , research and projects that the
department was commendably up-graded to I.A.S.E. in 1995 by Ministry of Human
Resource & Development.
It was the remarkable year 1995 when faculty was re-structured in the face of
education and allied sciences. From here the tree of faculty began to see
significant growth in not only academic branches but also in terms of massive
facilities including human resources and infrastructure. Needless to say various
allied courses came up one by one for the students who were seen longing to
quench their thirst. During the course of two years older departments were
opportuned to add new curricular wings in the form of Special Education on the
one hand and younger departments / courses came into existence e.g. Applied
Philosophy, Applied English, Social Work, Applied & Clinical Psychology,
Computer Applications and Mass Communication & Electronic Journalism; on the
other hand ; all of these are marching ahead on their path with the motto of
drawing out the best in student. The prestigious credit of A+ grade award by
NAAC is the result of academic contribution of all the departments/courses of
the faculty in team spirit with ready co-operation of whatsoever capacity they
possessed. Here the faculty of education & allied sciences earnesty records the
sincere contribution of our previous Deans namely Prof. Beena Shah, Prof.
Girijesh Kumar & Prof. N.N. Pandey and betroths to keep on the traditions and
spirit glowing. Apart, the faculty and other staff is highly co-operative and
venturing towards academic height with goal and dedication. In nut shell , it is
hoped that faculty will again realise its latent power and move ahead to
concretize its mantra (Not words but only action help acquisition of goals)
which seems to have no substitute for the search of peace, prosperity health&
happiness in present age of international understanding & cosmopolitan outlook.