No academic institution can have faculty that can teach all types of courses well. There will be areas of strength and there will be areas of weaknesses. But we want our students to pick up knowledge from diverse fields. How do we manage this. Different universities solve this problem in different ways. The simplest way is to ask a faculty who cannot do justice to the topic to still teach it anyway. It is alright to do this for basic set of courses. Most good faculty members can do a reasonable job if not an excellent job of teaching courses which are not in their area of research but in the same broad discipline.  Since Covid, when we all got used to online teaching and learning, some universities are allowing students to earn credits from Swayam and other online portals.  Another unique way in which this is achieved at JK Lakshmipat University is by encouraging student mobility . Students, particularly in Engineering, spend a semester or two at some IIT or other fine instit...