About the Founder

Prof Sugan C Bhatia

Sugan C Bhatia,  founding Coordinator, Director and Head of the Department of Adult, Continuing Education and Extension (since 1991 April to 1994 31st March), a doyen of the extension movement in higher education institutions in India. He played a key role in creating and shaping university based 108 Departments/Centers of Adult, Continuing Education and Extension. Besides being a trained linguist, he developed an empathy for socially and economically marginalised groups of people and worked relentlessly for them.

About the Department

The Department was established as a full-fledged department under the Faculty of Social Sciences in 1985. It commenced in 1978 as a Cell with activities connected to the mission programmes of the Government of India and grew into a ‘Center for Adult Continuing Education and Extension’ with the introduction and conduct of non-credit, non-evaluative, short-term courses in areas of promoting personal interest, income generation, and skill development. In order to establish a University-community interface, the Department has been consistently designing and developing programmes in the field of Literacy, Science and Sports Journalism, Legal Literacy, Public Interest Litigation, Sports Medicine and Physiotherapy, Human Rights, Life Skills – Health and Hygiene, Volunteer Management, Guidance and Counseling, Travel and Tourism Management, Cyber Security, Rapid Reading, Radio-Broadcasting and English Language Proficiency Course from time to time. This is a multidisciplinary department- offering Master's programme in Lifelong Learning and Extension and Ph.D. Programme in diverse academic areas touching upon the lives of the people in society. Thereafter, there is a dynamic Placement and an International Cell being manned by our students, functional in the department, under the supervision of the faculty Dr. Kumar Ashutosh as the Convenor.

Besides, the department also offers various SELF-FINANCING SHORT-TERM COURSES such as-

• Travel and Tourism Management
• Counseling & Guidance
• English Language Proficiency course.

Under the extension programmes and services, the Department continues its interaction with the Community by offering need-based services and gaining insights into the real-life issues of the people in and around the University. One of the recent initiatives has been the organization of the "International Autumn School" for students and faculty from different countries on "European and Asian Perspectives of Adult and Continuing Education". The Department has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the University of Wurzburg, Germany in July 2015 under which students and faculty are undertaking mobility and exchange programmes and there have been other significant MoUs signed with the Asia Europe Meet (ASEM) Lifelong Learning Hub.

The department's name was changed to the Department of Continuing Education and Extension in December 2023.

Prof. Prakash Narayan
Head of Department
Department of Continuing Education and Extension (DCEE)
Faculty of Social Sciences
University of Delhi
Delhi-110007
India

E-mail: head@ace.du.ac.in
Contact No. : 011-27667280