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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 →

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 →

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.

Italian Business School to Open Campus in Mumbai

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SDA Bocconi School of Management , a leading Italian business school in Milan, has announced plans to open a branch in India, its first campus abroad.

The new initiative, the Mumbai International School of Business , or M.I.S.B. Bocconi, expects about 100 students to start a postgraduate program in business in July 2012. Continue reading →

DU students making plans to welcome 2012

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With the New Year round the corner, Gen-Y is making elaborate plans to welcome 2012. But road trips and short vacations are not the new trends at the university; Year-end parties are still quite popular. “There are students in various colleges who help organise parties in discos and other places and earn money out of it,” says Kavi Sharma (name changed), a Delhi University (DU) student. Continue reading →

Jamia issued a notice to check fake certificates

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Jamia Millia Islamia University has issued a notification instructing the department heads to submit the medical certificates, as and when the students submit them. The decision has been taken few months after the medical certificates of several students were found to be invalid or forged. Continue reading →

Ramjas scam : NSUI member arrested

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Delhi Police on Monday arrested two persons including NSUI member Vardhan Choudhary and an Aurobindo College graduate – Ashwani Rajput. Choudhary, who was the Vice-Presidential candidate of NSUI in 2010 Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) elections, had lost the election to his ABVP opponent Priya Dabas by around 1,500 votes. Continue reading →

Financial support for Civil Services aspirants

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Sohan Suri Taran Kaur Suri Charitable Trust on Wednesday announced that it would finance 30 civil service aspirants belonging to minority communities.

Bhupinder Singh Suri, chairman of the trust and Pushpinder Singh, Delhi Minorities Commission member in a joint statement said that the trust would help only 30 students initially – 15 Sikhs and the remaining from other minority communities. Continue reading →