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University of Madras confident dual degree programme will prove successful

CHENNAI: The University of Madras is confident that its M.Sc. dual degree programme in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology will prove successful despite initial problems with regard to hiring staff.

Commenting on the article, “Frustrating wait for 11 students of nanoscience” that appeared in The Hindu on November 5, Vice-Chancellor S. Ramachandran said that the candidates who applied for teaching staff positions in response to the university’s initial advertisement in May 2006 were not qualified for the position as they did not have any background in the life sciences.

The university’s new National Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology will focus on biomedical nanotechnology.

However, the Vice-Chancellor said that there were 25 faculty members in various science departments of the university who have pursued research projects in the nanoscience field.

In a rejoinder to the article, University Registrar M. Ranganatham also said that a staff member’s statement that “the first batch is suffering”, was overstating the case.

“It is true that some of the courses are delayed. But as pointed out by your correspondent, this is due to the fact that the nanoscience and nanotechnology degree course is a very novel attempt by the University of Madras to stay at the leading edge of science and technology,” he said.

Refuting a student’s statement that “outside there is a lot of hype,” the university said that it has “embarked on this ambitious programme after detailed discussions and consultations with experts within the university as well as at the national level. The course has so far run only for about a year, and it is too early for any student to decide that ‘inside there is nothing’ and that ‘it’s frustrating’. We are sure that at the end of the course these very same students will find that the course has been immensely beneficial to them.”

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