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India creates Vivekananda chair at Chicago University

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Throwing open a new opportunity for the West to know India, New Delhi on Sunday created a faculty chair — named after Swami Vivekananda — at the University of Chicago. Supported by a $1.5 million endowment grant from the ministry of culture, the University of Chicago will establish “the Indian Ministry of Culture Vivekananda Visiting Professorship” for Indian studies.

Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday made the announcement at the Fullerton Hall of the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC), where Vivekananda had delivered his famous speech 119 years ago.

According to a University of Chicago release, “The one-quarter visiting professorship will Continue reading →

IGNOU to focus on more foreign tie-ups

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New Delhi: The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), one of the world’s largest universities, will be focusing on more foreign tie-ups in order to provide more quality education to students, Vice Chancellor M. Aslam said.

“IGNOU should get more international presence, so we will have more foreign tie-ups as we want to provide more quality education to large number of students. We are also trying to bring in faculty exchange programme,” said Aslam.IGNOU is operating in 43 countries across the world through 82 partner institutions.

The Universities of Berkley and Maryland in the United States have shown interest in faculty exchange programme with IGNOU, he said.

“Apart from this IGNOU will soon come out with a food safety lab. Already we have a certificate and diploma programme for food safety, we will soon start a master programme,” he said after receiving award for best teaching practices at the India Today Aspire Education Summit 2012.

IGNOU, which started with two courses and 4,000 students in 1985, has evolved into one of the world’s largest varsities by offering about 450 programmes. It now has over three million students on its rolls.

 

DU’s Gandhi centre will teach Math, English and the ‘charkha’

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New Delhi : On the occasion of Martyr’s day on Monday, Gandhi Bhawan in Delhi University announced four community-based programmes to help children and women from the underprivileged sections.

In Charkha Katai programme, people from the marginalised sections will be taught weaving through the charkha, or the spinning wheel.

There will be  classes for slum children in English, Hindi and Mathematics, womens’ vocational training programme in which they will be taught stitching and embroidery. A Continue reading →

UGC mulls 20 exclusive univs, 800 colleges for women

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NEW DELHI: Espousing the cause of women’s education, the 12th Plan period document of the University Grants Commission (UGC) has proposed 20 exclusive universities for them and 800 constituent colleges under the central varsities to ensure equity in access to quality education.The UGC has also sought a four-time hike in allocation during the Five-Year Plan period from Rs 46,632 crore to Rs 1,84,740 crore to achieve its proposed initiatives.

The initiatives also include upgrading of autonomous colleges with potential of excellence, enhancing intake capacity of institutes of higher education and development of ‘college Continue reading →

DU fest dates clash, students divided over participation

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New Delhi. As the annual festival dates of four prominent colleges of Delhi University witness a clash, the students seem to be divided on which fest to attend this year. The date clash means an exhausting three day hopping from one fest to another for the student participants.

The annual fests of Jesus and Mary College’s, ‘Montage’, Sri Venkateswara College’s ‘Nexus’, (south campus colleges) Indraprastha College for Women’s ‘Shruti’ and Miranda House’s ‘Tempest’ (north campus colleges) will be between February 23-25.

“Now that there are two colleges from the south campus and two from the north, the students will be going to attend JMC’s Montage and Miranda House’s Tempest. Continue reading →

Shillong IIM to start PG course in international business

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GUWAHATI: The Rajiv Gandhi Indian Institute of Management, Shillong, is set introduce a one-year post-graduate executive programme in international business with a focus on China. The new course, which will be launched in April in collaboration with Ocean University in Qingdao, China, will give students an opportunity to study for six months each in China and in India.

“China has proved its superiority over the United States and the European Union. The competitiveness of the people of that country is a key factor pushing them to new heights in the fields of construction and urban development among others. In China, the government, which Continue reading →

Patna University bid to introduce five-year courses

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PATNA: With two of its premier technical institutions having already been detached, Patna University (PU) is facing a crisis of sorts so far as its academic expansion is concerned.

Once, PU, the seventh oldest university of the Indian sub-continent, used to have academic jurisdiction over the institutions spread all over the states of Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa and even Nepal. But, with the passage of time, its jurisdiction was confined to just a few colleges and post-graduate departments located within the Patna Municipal Corporation area. Continue reading →

US colleges learn business mantra from Indian gurus like Soumitra Dutta, Pradeep K Khosla and Dipak C Jain

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NEW DELHI: When Soumitra Dutta was appointed as the Dean of Ivy League Cornell University earlier this month, he joined a small, influential and growing club of Indian-origin professors heading American business schools. Among them, five have risen to top jobs in the US management education circuit in the last four years.A year-and-a-half ago, Harvard Business School appointed Professor Nitin Nohria as its dean. Forty three-year-old Sunil Kumar took the dean’s chair at Chicago’s Booth School of Business, another top US B-school, early last year. And now, 48-year-old Dutta, from France’s top business school INSEAD, is at the helm at Cornell. Continue reading →

NLU Dwarka winner at DU moot court

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NEW DELHI: After an intense debate on a criminal corporate liability case, the team representing the National Law University from Dwarka bagged the first prize in the K K Luthra Memorial Moot Court Competition on Sunday.

Organized by the Delhi University’s Campus Law Centre, the competition in its 8th edition saw teams from National Law University, Dwarka, and Indian Law Society, Pune, adroitly argue in a criminal corporate liability case.

While ILS, Pune, was declared the first runner-up, the title for the Best Speaker Team went to George Washington University Law School, US, out of the 62 participating teams.

“A solved case is selected and the teams are assessed by lawyers and judges,” said J L Kaul, professor in charge of the Campus Law Centre. The final rounds were presided over by Justices Sanjiv Khanna, Hima Kohli and Manmohan Singh of the Delhi high court. Justice T S Thakur of the Supreme Court was the chief guest.

DAYAL SINGH COLLEGE

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DYAL SINGH COLLEGE  was  founded in accordance with  the  will of Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia,  one of the  greatest sons of Punjab,  in  Lahore. Sardar Dyal Singh belonged to the  Shergil or Gill clan of Sardars of  Majitha village near Amritsar. He is also well-known as the Founder of The Tribune and one who bequeathed his largely self-earned assets including prestigious buildings in  Lahore and  lands in  Amritsar, Lahore and  Gurdaspur  districts worth about Rs.30 lakh in 1898  to two  trusts which established  Dyal Singh College and  Dyal Singh Public Library in Lahore.  Sardar Dyal Singh Majitha was a great  philanthropist and  lover of education.  A man of great vision and action,  he donated all  his assets  for the  propagation of  education. He had an unusually farsighted vision.  He wanted to generate a  scientific outlook in the  minds   of  the   common   people  who  suffered  from  blind  faith   and superstition. He  wanted to  eradicate  orthodox  and  irrelevant  views.

 A little lesser known fact is that Sardar Dyal Singh was one among the 17 “good men and true” who decided in 1884 to found the Indian National Congress. He sailed for England in 1874, and in his interactions  with  intellectual luminaries there,  he  gained  an enormous intellect. While in India,  he came  into  contact  with  many  architects  of  Modern  India such as  Rabindranath Tagore,  Swami Vivekanand, Swami Dayanand,  Dadabhai Naoroji Continue reading →