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Thursday, Feb 09, 2006

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Creating awareness about new opportunities

With the season of examinations and admissions fast approaching, it's time for students to plan the right moves. And with foreign degrees now topping the priority list of a large number of Indian students, it is often about which country and course to choose.

The coming week will give students a chance to take a closer look at universities from England and Scotland. The British Council is yet again organising an Education UK Exhibition to create awareness about the study opportunities available in the country.

Representatives of over 60 educational institutions from England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland will be present at the exhibition to be held on February 19 and 20.

To be held at the British Council premises, the exhibition will also travel to Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bangalore and Chennai between February 13 and 27. To ensure that students get all the details they need, a number of seminars are also being organised.

While a seminar on ``Working in Scotland -- Fresh Talent Scheme'' will focus on special scholarships for Indian students who want to study in Scotland, another on student visas will provide information on the current procedures. Giving a peek into the new popular courses in the UK will be a seminar on ``media, management and art'', with the requirements for undergraduate and postgraduate courses being explained separately in another seminar.

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To commemorate the first year of its establishment, the Dr. K. R. Narayanan Centre for Dalit and Minorities Studies organised a symposium this week on ``Education of the Marginalised''. Held at the Yassar Arafat Hall on February 7, the event saw UPSC member and former Vice-Chancellor of Dravidian University Prof. K. S. Chalam appreciate the unique combination of Dalit and Minorities Studies into a single unit to help understand the problems facing the marginalised in a holistic and comprehensive manner.

Referring to the controversy over reservations for Muslims in universities, Prof. Imtiaz Ahmed of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) said the non-marginalised within the marginalised be kept out of the purview of reservations.

Renowned educationist and former Vice-Chancellor of Punjab University Amrik Singh observed in his remarks that education being a State subject, the growing interference of the State in educational institutions and the desire of the education department to control education, defeats the very purpose of education and weakens its quality.

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The Consumer Club of Delhi University's Kamla Nehru College organised a one-day awareness programme. Nearly 40 schools that already have a consumer club made their presentations on how they are sensitising their students about consumer rights.

An exhibition was also organised on food safety as part of the event.

The first college in Delhi University to have taken such an initiative, the club was established on November 29, 2005, and has since then organised various awareness programmes.

The Convenor for Consumer Club, Sheetal Kapoor, made a presentation on the Club's future plans and also informed students about the recent introduction of a paper on consumer affairs in the new syllabus of the B. Com. (Honours) and B.A. (Pass) course.

-- Lakshmi B. Ghosh

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