In its latest offering, Jamia Millia Islamia has introduced new undergraduate programmes in German Studies and Japanese Studies, along with an Advanced Diploma course in Child Guidance & Counselling, for the academic session 2025–26.
Online admissions forms for these three courses – FYUGP for German Studies (Self-Finance), FYUGP for Japanese Studies (Self-Finance) and Advance Diploma in Child Guidance & Counselling (Self Finance) are open for application by interested candidates until September 06, 2025.
Aligned with the National Education Policy (NEP 2020), the two new self-financed undergraduate programmes – B.A. (Hons.) in German Studies and B.A. (Hons.) in Japanese Studies under the Four-Year Undergraduate Programme (FYUGP), go beyond conventional language teaching to offer a multidisciplinary curriculum.
These courses integrate language proficiency with cultural studies, translation and interpretation, and industry-oriented applications with the aim to equip students with the skills and global outlook necessary to thrive in today’s interconnected world.
The Advanced Diploma in Child Guidance & Counselling course which is accredited by the Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI) paves the way for a rewarding career as an RCI approved counsellor. This recognised certification is highly valued by employers across sectors, enabling the Diploma holders to pursue upcoming careers in educational institutions, healthcare facilities, hospitals, and clinics, government organisations, national and international NGOs among others.
Expanding Jamia’s academic horizons: VC
Vice Chancellor, JMI, Prof Mazhar Asif, and Registrar, JMI Prof Md Mahtab Alam Rizvi, said the objective behind introducing these programmes is to expand JMI’s academic horizons in foreign language education, on the one hand and to make new forays and meaningful intervention in the challenging and significant area of Child Guidance & Counselling, on the other.
Admission forms for the these three courses are available at the following link:
Admission test date
The admission test date for the three courses is September 14, 2025.
By introducing these futuristic and popular courses, JMI has once again demonstrated its commitment to offering globally relevant and industry-oriented programmes, said the university. The university firmly believes these initiatives will not only broaden its academic offerings but also strengthen India’s cultural and professional bridges with Europe and Japan.
Furthermore, Jamia trained certified counsellors in the pertinent area of child guidance and counselling can join a select group of qualified professionals equipped to make a real difference in children’s lives while enjoying excellent career prospects across the country, it said.
The admission test date for the three courses is September 14, 2025.
Jamia organises workshop at Premchand Archives
In another development, Jamia’s Premchand Archives and Literary Centre (JPALC) at Jamia Millia Islamia, has been conducting a series of workshops and masterclasses on Digitization, Photography and Archives as part of the Digitization project titled Marginal Histories: The Founding of Jamia Millia Islamia and the Struggle for India’s Independence funded by the Endangered Archives Programme (EAP) Grant of the British Library.
On August 20, 2025, the teachers and students of PG Diploma in Still Photography and Visual Communication, AJK Mass Communication Research Centre (MCRC) participated in a workshop that introduced them to the entire process of digitization and meta data creation.
The material that the JPALC seeks to preserve predates 1950 and falls into two broad sets. The first set comprises collections belonging to the founders and early pioneers of JMI who were also prominent national leaders. The second set of materials are the collections of literary stalwarts whose works provide a rich and vibrant account of the socio-cultural-political milieu in which Jamia was born.
Unique collection
These holdings are rare and unique to the collection of JPALC. The first set includes the collections of Maulana Mohd. Ali (1878-1931), Dr. M. A. Ansari (1880–1936), Maulana Shaukat Ali (1873-1938), Hamid Ali Khan, A. M. Khwaja (1885 – 1962) Dr. Zakir Husain (1897-1969) and Shafiqur Rehman Kidwai (1901-1953). The second set seeks to digitise the collections of literary stalwarts Munshi Premchand, (1880-1936), Devinder Satyarthi (1908-20003) Pandit Banarsi Das Chaturvedi, Hamid Hasan Qadiri (1887- 1980), Begum Anis Kidwai (1906-1982) and Prof. Khwaja Ahmad Farooqui (1917-1986).
Comprising letters, diaries, correspondence, registers, scrapbooks, photographs, convocation addresses, newspaper clippings, certificates, magazines, journals, notepads and rare books, these collections bear testimony to the role played by the founders and early pioneers of Jamia Millia Islamia.
The workshop conducted last week for PG Diploma in Still Photography and Visual Communication, AJK MCRC students and teachers which introduced them to the entire process of digitization and metadata creation was coordinated by the Course Coordinator and Associate Professor, Sohail Akbar who had previously also played an important role in training the digitization specialist in the use of NIKON cameras.
Prof. Shohini Ghosh, Director (Offg.), welcomed participants and resource persons, providing an overview of the JPALC and the EAP project. The programme included a guided tour of the JPALC led by archivists Syed Mohd Amir and Shraddha Shankar. Archivist Snigdha Roy explained the digitization workflow with a focus on handling fragile documents. Akif Sattar (Digitisation Specialist) highlighted the unique challenges of archival photography, while Mohsina Akhter (Metadata Creator) outlined the standards for creating robust and accurate metadata. Participants also gained valuable hands-on experience of the process.
This workshop marked an important step in JPALC’s efforts to preserve fragile cultural heritage while training a new generation in archival practices.
Established in 2004, the British Library’s Endangered Archives Programme (EAP) was established to preserve and make accessible vulnerable archival materials from around the world. Its mission is to safeguard cultural heritage that is at least more than fifty years old and is at risk of loss through ageing, deterioration, conflict, or environmental damage or degradation.
The programme does this primarily by funding projects that digitise endangered collections such as manuscripts, rare printed works, photographs, and sound recordings. The JPALC staff worked rigorously to prepare and submit a detailed proposal and successfully cleared several evaluation rounds to secure the prestigious grant. The mandate of the EAP is not only to preserve fragile archives but also build local capacity through workshops and master classes. It is in this spirt of capacity building that the workshops on Digitization, Photography and Archived workshops are conducted.
