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Chennai shocks teachers, parents; say need to handle carefully

siteadmin — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:28:57 +0000

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The Chennai incident has stunned the teaching community as well as students and parents. While teachers are scared about the incidents parents are saying there must be a huge communication gap between student and teacher and their parents’ and their aspirations. Parents also say that this is not a normal incident so it should be treated as abnormal psychological crime than a normal incident.
Parul Gupta, a resident of Noida and mother of two schoolchildren, says that the incident is so serious that we need to see all the aspects in it. Where did communication gap started between student and teacher and student and his parents. This is a serious incident and need to be handled very carefully, she adds.
On the other hand, S. Prakash, a teacher in Delhi University says that it is a scary incident and this indicates that teachers should understand its students and their family background very carefully so that they could be dealt delicately and their complexity of thinking process could be unfolded.
However, things are not so easy. As an academic counselor of Delhi’s prestigious school says “Students are not just affected by teachers or parents only. They are influenced by their peer group, friends, local neighbours, TV serial, movies, books, internet and so many things. In such a situation, it is important to understand all these socialization issue to unfold complexity of a student. But, the incident is very abnormal and it should be treated very delicately even by media too, she adds.
It is notable that Uma Maheshwari, a teacher of St. Mary’s Anglo Indian Higher Secondary Scool, Chennai was killed in a ghastly incident of stabbing by class-IX student on Thursday while she was in the classroom preparing for her class.

Only 90% result for IGNOU’s term end examinations

siteadmin — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:48:31 +0000

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Despite all tall claims the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) could not declare complete results of December 2011 Term End Examination (TEE). Results of only 90% students could be declared despite all the efforts. According to IGNOU a record 4,17,047 students were appeared for 2045 courses at 803 examination centres including 40 international.
As per the ordinance, the exam results are meant to be declared within the stipulated time period of 45 days. Decentralized the evaluation work to seven evaluation centres were taken place in different parts of the country.
The evaluation centres, under their supervision, tied-up with the local reputed educational institutions/ universities, if available, for evaluation of the answer scripts in their premises under the supervision of the evaluation centre, IGNOU says in a release. This type of arrangement was done where there were a large number of answer-scripts to be handled, it added.

Notification for JNUSU elections soon

siteadmin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:15:11 +0000

Campus Brief

JNU entrance test from 22th May

Admission process in JNU will start from this month with the selling of forms from 6th February. Entrance tests will be conducted on 22nd to 25th May for different undergraduate and postgraduate courses and other programmes at 52 centres. Interested candidates should contact the university for further details.

Notification for JNUSU elections soon

University administration has given nod to issue notification to hold elections for JNU students union (JNUSU). According to university sources the administration may issue notifications for the elections this month considering continuous pressure from the different students’ outfits and university students.

Anugoonj at IP University

Three-day annual festival “Anugoonj” started at Dwarka campus of Indraprastha University on Thursday. Kiran Seth, founder director, Spic Macay, was presented on the occasion. Students of various universities and colleges of Delhi are participating in the festival. Several competitions, music show and dance shows will be organized on the occasion.

DUTA General Body to open front against VC

siteadmin — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:29:24 +0000

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Teachers of Delhi University are ready to open fronts against Vice Chancellor Dinesh Singh during the General Body meeting of Delhi University Teachers Association (DUTA). Already confronting with various issues including evaluation of semester papers and other issues DUTA will try to get mandate for agitation to press their demands.
“University administration has been violating all the statutory provisions for long time and EC and AC have made almost defunct so that the current administration could take decision arbitrarily, Amardev Sharma, President DUTA, told fachcha.com.

According to him several issues will be discussed in the General Body meeting on Tuesday. These include decisions of HRD, functioning of Delhi government funded college, bills, DU related issues apart from teachers and students related issues.

Students, teachers celebrate Basant Panchami

siteadmin — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:25:43 +0000

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Basant Panchmi, festival of arrival of Spring season, celebrated today in various colleges and hostels of Delhi University. Students offered prayer to Mother Saraswati, Goddes of wisdom, and organised various programmes on the occassion.

Several functions were organised in the hostels of Hindu College, Kirori Mal College, Ramjas College and PG hostels and hostels at South Campus. Teachers too participated in the function with full zeal.

Basant Panchmi is known as end of Winter season and arrival of Spring season in North India. Students and teachers, artists and others who have been associated with intellectual works offer prayer to Mother Saraswati on the day and celebrate the day as the festival.

Ravi Tripathi and Pramod Kumar Singh, organisers of the Sarswati Puja at Lodhi Colony Central Market said that the full day programme included various competition like drawing, painting, music and dance competitions for students. An evening of poems too was orgnised on the occassion, they added.

Construction of Trans-Yamuna Campus of IP University soon

siteadmin — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:45:58 +0000

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The Trans-Yamuna Campus of the Indraprastha University will soon be a reality as the construction of the campus will be started very soon. This has been stated by Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Friday during a function at Trans-Yamuna area of Delhi. She also announced various other promises for the area including extension of the proposed monorail project, introduction of small taxi for congested roads and smaller streets.

She said that proposed campus will provide better facility for higher education in the area. It is notable that several colleges of Delhi University and Indraprastha University are already operating in the area. These include colleges like Vivekanad College, B R Ambedkar College, Maharaja Agrsen College, College of Business Studies and others.

UGC follows Delhi Govt. footprints, plans for 20 women universities

siteadmin — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:02:43 +0000

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Taking cue from recent decision of Delhi Government to establish Women Technical University in the capital city the main regulatory body of higher education University Grant Commission (UGC) has planned to set up 20 women universities in the country. UGC has also asked four time increase in its 12th five-year plan. However, it is not clear that the plan is just to attract the fund from the government or the UGC is serious about it as no concrete decision has been taken on selection of cities to set up these universities.

The UGC has been facing serious criticism for not updating its list of fake universities and institutions and its inability and willingness to take strong action against such institutions. The recent proposal is being seen among the educational communities as just image building exercise. It is notable that the city government had taken decision in its cabinet meeting to set up a women university in Delhi. In fact, decision in this regard had been taken over 18 months ago at policy level.

DU & DRDO to work for Cyber Security, Nanotechnology

siteadmin — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:55:51 +0000

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Delhi University and DRDO will work together in the area of cyber security and nanotechnology. Both the institutions have signed an MOU to work for better academic enhancement and research and development. According to Vijay Kumar Sarawat, DG, DRDO both the institutions have been working for last one year for the collaboration and identified the areas like laser physics, cryptography, MEMS, and sensors for specific applications apart from cyber security and nanotechnology.

Prof. Dinesh Singh, Vice Chancellor, Delhi University in his address mentioned about “Cluster Innovation Centre” and said that it will change the way of learning in Delhi University. He described signing of MoU as a Red Letter Day in the history of Delhi University.

IP University earns Rs. one crore by selling forms

siteadmin — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:15:19 +0000

Campus Brief
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International Conference at DTU
An international conference on solar energy was inaugurated at Delhi Technological University (DTU). P B Sharma, Vice Chancellor of DTU and Yutaka T. of Tokyo Tech were presented on the occasion. The conference is part of academic-industry interaction on the issue of solar energy.
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IP university earns Rs. one crore by selling forms
Indraprastha University has earned over Rs. one crore in just three days by selling of application forms. According to the university officials the university has sold over 10,000 forms in last three days for different courses. According to the officials the university has fix the target to earn rupees 12 crore by selling of forms.
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Students boycott classes in JNU
Demand for students’ union elections has intensified in JNU as students preferred to stay away from their classes on Monday to press the demand for students’ union elections. Left outfits SFI, AISF and AISA have been on strike demanding early JNUSU elections.

Lack of students: I P University gives 3 months for application

siteadmin — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 05:33:06 +0000

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GGS Indraprastha University, facing students crunch in various courses, has given about three months time to lure more students. The university is starting sale of the forms for various programmes from today. Various institutions of the affiliating university have been facing lack of students in various courses. Courses like BBA, PGDM, some of the engineering and other programmes have been unable to attract enough number of students in the recent past.
It is notable that the university, have been generating huge fund from the affiliation of the institutions. Even the cost of prospectus and application is quite high for the students, belonging to the normal categories.