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WHAT WOULD a student not do for a degree? Well not much, if you were to go strictly by the number of graduates who turn up in time every year to collect that much prized possession. The dream of a good degree may be the only thing that drives them to burn the midnight oil through school, but when it comes to going back to college to get the job-clinching graduation proof, the exuberance seems rather low on most fronts. Take the case of Sri Venkateswara College, which recently had a student come back for his degree nearly seven years after he passed out. But if you think that is late, then the School of Correspondence Courses and Continuing Education is another eye-opener, what with degrees from the 1970s and `80s still stocked up here. Although despatching of the degrees through post had been seen as a possible solution to the problem, it did not quite end up solving the issue. "We did send the degrees by post, but then we cannot be sure the address is the same unless the student himself asks for it by post and verifies the address. There were at least a couple of cases where students said they had not received the degree despite our sending them. There is little you can do in such cases,'' says the Sri Venkateswara College Principal, A.S. Reddy. According to authorities, students who move out for their Masters to foreign universities seem a little more careless about the degree than the ones still living in the Capital. As most colleges announce the date on which the degrees are awarded, students keeping a tab on the matter are usually the ones to get it in time. But things are clearly much better in the colleges than in the School of Correspondence, where thousands of degrees are still lying unclaimed. According to the Delhi University Registrar, Atindra Sen, as many as 30,000 degrees have been cleared from the backlog in the past one year through the postal mode. Verification of addresses continues to be the primary concern here too, with officials at the School refusing to hand over the degree to anyone other than the student himself or herself. "There have been cases where we have had children coming and fighting with us because we gave the degree to their parents. We have strict orders not to give the degree even if there is a letter of authorisation. As of now, we ask former students who can not come to collect the degree themselves to send us a letter giving details of their address and other things. But handing it to even relatives is now a rare practice,'' says an official at the School of Correspondence.
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THIS IS probably a must for all prospective researchers and scientists. The Indian National Science Academy will be organising the Blackett Memorial Lecture-2005 on "The responsibility of being a scientist'' by Professor Julia S. Higgins, the Freign Secretary and vice-president of the Royal Society, London. The event will held at the Academy auditorium on Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg on January 13 at 3-30 p.m.
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THE DELHI School of Economics' Department of Commerce held the ninth annual convention of its Masters in Human Resource and Organisational Development and Masters of International Business Programme this past week. The two-day affair witnessed a confluence of newsmakers from the corporate and political world, with the event looking into new-age marketing concepts that haves emerged over the years and innovation.
Lakshmi B. Ghosh
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