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OU seminar on NAAC re-accreditation

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The Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) of Osmania University organised a seminar on `Institutional preparation for re-accreditation by NAAC' to motivate all colleges and administrative wings of the university in preparation of re-accreditation report (RAR).

The objective of the seminar was to narrow down the difference of perception of each constituent of the university and bring awareness about the importance of actual implementation of the quality sustenance and improvement programmes.

R.V.R. Chandrasekhara Rao, former Vice-Chancellor, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Open University who inaugurated the seminar said that in India for over a century-and-half universities mostly controlled themselves determining their own mechanisms of maintaining quality. He also highlighted the type of accreditation system to which universities in advanced countries are subjected to. Dr. Stephen Ryrie Associate Dean, Faculty of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, University of West of England, Bristol, UK and Institutional auditor for UK Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education talked on quality assurance of higher education in UK.

SVU

SVU Environmental Sciences Department has bagged a research project `Membrane-based chemical sensors for lanthanides, actinides and other radioactive elements.'

The Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences and Department of Atomic Energy have agreed to give Rs. 15 lakhs for the three-year project, to be undertaken by Prof. G.R.K. Naidu. The project is said to be useful in monitoring toxic pollutants and recovery of rare earths.

Dravidian University

Dravidian University, Kuppam, launched a five-year integrated masters programme on Saturday. With this, the nine-year old varsity became the youngest in the State to offer the novel course. APSCHE chairman K.C.Reddy inaugurated the course, in the presence of Education Secretary Ausutosh Mishra and Vice-Chancellor G. Lakshminarayana.

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