Community College

• Create skilled manpower for industry requirements at various levels. The scheme provides for vertical mobility from short term certificate courses to full-fledged post graduate degree programme, shall also include courses which are offered under the Community College Scheme and B.Voc. degree programme of UGC.
• Formulate courses at postgraduate level keeping in mind the need of i) Industry in specialized areas; ii) Instructional design, curriculum design and contents in the areas of Skills Development; iii) Pedagogy, assessment for skills development education and training; iv) Qualified faculty in the areas of skill development; and v) Entrepreneurship; etc.
• Work for coordination between the higher education system and industry to become a Centre of Excellence for skill development in specialized areas.
• Network with other such centres and universities and colleges imparting vocational education under the scheme of Community Colleges and B. Voc degree programme in their region and coordinate with them for targeted development of skill oriented education.
• To find the areas related to skill education & development , entrepreneurship, employability, labour market trends etc. at the post-graduate and research level.
• Provide for Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) framework for job roles at NSQF Level 5 onwards by conducting assessment and certification with respective Sector Skill Councils (SSCs)/ Directorate General of Employment and Training (DGET)/Partner Industry
• Maintain 'Labour Market Information' for respective regions in coordination with other government agencies and industry associations.
• Develop and aggregate curriculum, content and learning materials for skills development in different sectors.

Events and Workshops Organised-

About Aligarh Muslim University-

The university now has 12 faculties comprising 98 teaching departments, 3 academies and 15 centres  and institution. University offers more than 300 courses in the traditional and modern branches of edu-  cation. It draws students from all states in India and from different countries, especially Africa, West Asia  and Southeast Asia. There are 19 halls of residence for students with 80 hostels.

In some courses, seats are reserved for students from SAARC and Commonwealth Countries. The uni-  versity keeps pace with the nations growth by offering facilities for specialized learning in areas of  technical, vocational and inter- disciplinary studies. It has more than 28,000, students, 1,342 teachers  and some 5,610 non-teaching staff on its rolls.

The university has opened two new centres of study outside Aligarh w.e.f. 2011 at Murshidabad, West  Bengal and Mallapurum at Kerala state. Games and sports have been a distinctive feature of the AMU.  The Cricket, football, hockey, Tennis, Basketball, Skating and Horse Riding teams have excelled at the  inter-University level. Perhaps this is the only university with a Horse Riding Club.

The General Education centre is the nucleus of most of the extra-curricular activities and caters to the  cultural environment. This centre organises these activities through its various clubs viz., the AMU  Drama Club, The Hindustani and Western Music Club, the Literary Club,Eco-Club and the Hobbies  Workshop etc.

The university grew out of the work of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, the great Muslim reformer and states-  man, who in the aftermath of the Indian War of Independence of 1857 felt that it was important for  Muslims to gain education and become involved in the public life and government services in India.  Raja Jai Kishan helped Sir Syed in establishing the university.

The intense desire to ameliorate the social conditions of Indian Muslims led Sir Syed to publish the periodical, 'Tehzibul Akhlaq' .

In 1877, Sir Syed founded the Muhammadan Anglo Oriental College in Aligarh and patterned the college after Oxford and Cambridge universities.

His objective was to build a college in tune with the British education system but without compromising its Islamic values. It was one of the first purely residential educational institutions set up either by  the government or the public in India. When viceroy to India Lord Curzon visited the college in 1901,  he praised the work which was carried on and called it of "sovereign importance".

The college was originally affiliated with the University of Calcutta and subsequently got affiliated  with the university of Allahabad in 1885. By 1920 the college was transformed into the Aligarh Muslim   University.