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At Delhi University it is an annual extravaganza that works best in its one-month "festive" framework, while in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) it's literally an addiction. But the Indian Institute of Technology seems rather happy to be away from the power game. At a press conference held on Tuesday to announce the two-day conference and exhibition of PanIIT, members of the IIT alumni described the lack of student politics on the campus as a boon. While accepting that IITians did not seem to venture too much into public service through politics, a senior Congress leader noted that "not many IITians may get into politics but they are all good politicians''. There were, of course, those who also believed that lack of politics had made campus life much more enjoyable. "I think it was one of the reasons academics was always the priority in IIT. There had been some problems in between with regard to mess management, but thankfully the students managed to rise above the political or ideological differences to focus on other things,'' said one of the speakers.
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The JNU Teachers' Association has welcomed the Supreme Court order for surrender of Vinay Pal, the police officer accused in the brutal murder of Anand Pandey, son of well-known Hindi literary critic and JNU Professor Manager Pandey.
While pointing out that this will help reinforce the faith of the common appellant in the rule of law and also deter the erring officers from indulging in unlawful acts against the public, JNUTA in a statement said "this will remind the Government of Bihar the urgency to speed up the employment promised to the dependents of late Anand Pandey".
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JNU has signed an agreement with the University of New South Wales for student and staff exchange. The memorandum of understanding was signed between the Premier of New South Wales, Bob Carr, and the JNU Vice- Chancellor, Prof. G.K. Chadha. "Quite simply this means more of India's best students coming to Sydney and undertaking high quality research," Mr Carr said. Also present at the event was the Deputy Vice-Chancellor of NSW University, Prof. John Ingleson.
The agreement will now allow a JNU staff member to spend one month at UNSW and a JNU student to study at UNSW for one semester. Valued at AUD 7,500, it covers travel, accommodation, university fees and other expenses.
In addition, UNSW will also sponsor one of its researchers to come to JNU for a month to be part of a co-operative research project.
India is currently the second largest market for international higher education in both NSW and Australia. While there are 19,000 Indian students in Australian institutions as of now, by 2025 this is expected to grow to more than 81,000 students from India in Australian institutions.
And with India witnessing an astounding increase of 128 per cent in the growth of student visas, things are only likely to improve in the coming months.
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A delegation of teachers from Delhi College of Engineering, Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology and College of Pharmacy along with Delhi University Teachers' Association (DUTA) president Aditya Narayan Misra and Academic Council member P. Kakra met Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Wednesday and presented a memorandum demanding removal of disparities in service conditions of teachers in technical and professional colleges.
In a statement later, DUTA said it had drawn the attention of the Chief Minister towards discrimination in retirement of teachers. While AICTE and UGC both have notified 62 years as the retirement age for teachers, those in technical and professional colleges are made to retire at 60.
Lakshmi B. Ghosh
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