As part of the Group’s ongoing commitment to provide the best education possible, Wilsonia saw a need to provide quality education at the graduate level where the medium of teaching would be English. The city has some very good colleges but most of them concentrate on Hindi Medium of education .l Not all students with English school background can migrate to the colleges in other cities because of various pressures. So, to provide both young men and women of Moradabad a better college experience, in an atmosphere conducive to the proper development of students, was the aim of stating the Wilsonia Degree College.
Rohilkhand University was established in 1975. In August 1997, the prefix ‘Mahatma Jyotiba Phule’ was appended before the name to honour the great figure from India’s Freedom Struggle. The University has 74 affiliated Colleges and 12 Faculties. With the headquarters at Bareilly being not so far away, the co-ordination between the College and the University becomes an easy and effective process.
Wilsonia Degree College has the unique status of being the only completely English Medium College in Western U.P. Besides this, the College is very fastidious regarding issues of discipline and values which puts W.D.C. in a very elitist bracket of Colleges. To build in the youn g adults who come through these portals values for a better life is the mainstay of this College. With this in mind a morning Assembly is conducted every day which is a time to feelowship as well as a means of meeting of the Management, Staff and Students. This practice does build a feeling of brotherhood and a family like atmosphere within the College.
Regular classes are conducted and the University’s requirement of minimum of 75% attendance of lectures is strictly adhered to. Besides this WDC also aims at bringing about an overall development in each student. There are immense opportunities to participate in a load of co-curricular activities and events throughout the session, such participation helps in building a strong character of the student, helping the student become ore self-confident as well as appreciative of others in true sportsman spirit.
To make the student a better person is the Focus of Education is Wilsonia Degree College!
Rated B by National Assessment and Accreditation Council in the year 2016
Wilsonia Degree College is recognized by the University Grants Commission under Section 2 (f) and 12 (B) of the UGC Act, 1956.
From ancient Bharat to modern India, higher education has always occupied a place of prominence in Indian history, attracting students not only from all over the country but from far off countries like Korea, China, Burma (now Myanmar), Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Tibet and Nepal. Today, India manages one of the largest higher education systems in the world.
The present system of higher education dates back to Mountstuart Elphinstone’s minutes of 1823, which stressed on the need for establishing schools for teaching English and the European sciences. Later, Lord Macaulay, in his minutes of 1835, advocated “efforts to make natives of the country thoroughly good English scholars”. Sir Charles Wood’s Dispatch of 1854, famously known as the ‘ Magna Carta of English Education in India’, recommended creating a properly articulated scheme of education from the primary school to the university. It sought to encourage indigenous education and planned the formulation of a coherent policy of education. Subsequently, the universities of Calcutta, Bombay (now Mumbai) and Madras were set up in 1857, followed by the university of Allahabad in 1887.
The Inter-University Board (later known as the Association of Indian Universities) was established in 1925 to promote university activities, by sharing information and cooperation in the field of education, culture, sports and allied areas. The first attempt to formulate a national system of education in India came In 1944, with the Report of the Central Advisory Board of Education on Post War Educational Development in India, also known as the Sargeant Report. It recommended the formation of a University Grants Committee, which was formed in 1945 to oversee the work of the three Central Universities of Aligarh, Banarasand Delhi. In 1947, the Committee was entrusted with the responsibility of dealing with all the then existing Universities.
Soon after Independence, the University Education Commission was set up in 1948 under the Chairmanship of Dr. S Radhakrishnan “to report on Indian university education and suggest improvements and extensions that might be desirable to suit the present and future needs and aspirations of the country”. It recommended that the University Grants Committee be reconstituted on the general model of the University Grants Commission of the United Kingdom with a full-time Chairman and other members to be appointed from amongst educationists of repute.
In 1952, the Union Government decided that all cases pertaining to the allocation of grants-in-aid from public funds to the Central Universities and other Universities and Institutions of higher learning might be referred to the University Grants Cmmission. Consequently, the University Grants Commission (UGC) was formally inaugurated by late Shri Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, the then Minister of Education, Natural Resources and Scientific Research on 28 December 1953.
The UGC, however, was formally established only in November 1956 as a statutory body of the Government of India through an Act of Parliament for the coordination, determination and maintenance of standards of university education in India. In order to ensure effective region-wise coverage throughout the country, the UGC has decentralised its operations by setting up six regional centres at Pune, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Bhopal, Guwahati and Bangalore. The head office of the UGC is located at Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg in New Delhi, with two additional bureaus operating from 35, Feroze Shah Road and the South Campus of University of Delhi as well.
The UGC has the unique distinction of being the only grant-giving agency in the country which has been vested with two responsibilities: that of providing funds and that of coordination, determination
The UGC’s mandate includes:
• Promoting and coordinating university education.
• Determining and maintaining standards of teaching, examination
• Framing regulations on minimum standards of education.
• Monitoring developments in the field of collegiate and university education; disbursing grants to the universities and colleges.
• Serving as a vital link between the Union and state governments and institutions of higher learning.
• Advising the Central and State governments on the measures necessary for
NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR MINORITY EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
Wilsonia Degree College has been awarded the certificate declaring the institution to be a Minority Educational Institution by the National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions, Government of India.
The certificate states:-
‘On consideration of the Documentary Evidence Produced Before the Commission, the Commission is Satisfied the Wilsonia Degree College, Ashiana Phase II, Kanth Road, Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, Managed by the Wilsonia Degree College Society, is a Minority Educational Institution within the Meaning of Section 2 (g) of the National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions Act 2004. Consequently, it is Hereby Declared that
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