"Even organisations like Unicef, Plan India and the World Bank have requirements of experts on childhood care. Now in the private sector, with pre-nursery and playschools growing, the need for childhood care is immense," added Kaul.

The other courses introduced at AUD are MA in social entrepreneurship and M.Phil in development practice at the higher level.

"Social entrepreneurship is meant to produce entrepreneurs in the social sector. This course will produce job creators and teach students about basic business skills," Kuriakose Mamkottam, director, School of Business Public Policy and Social Entrepreneurship at AUD, told IANS.

Theory apart, students will also have to do two months of field work and prepare a plan for their entrepreneurial ventures that can be supported (with resources and finances) by AUD's Incubation Centre or by a pool of venture capitalists.

For the M.Phil in development practice, students will spend eight of the 24 months of the course in the villages of Jharkhand, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Rajasthan and Bihar in collaboration with NGO Pradan, which seeks to enable poor, rural families to lead a life of dignity.

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