CAMPUS JOTTINGS
Teacher recruitments
Andhra University is recruiting teachers on a large scale after a gap of 12 years. The notification regarding the recruitment has been issued but the details caused concern in some sections.
The allotment of posts to different departments is the cause of concern and some feel that it has been done keeping in view the favoured candidates. This is apart from the handful of posts allotted to the College of Arts and Commerce. More than half of the 17 posts allotted to humanities have been allotted to the PG Centres in Kakinada and Etcherla. Even among the posts allotted to the campus college, majority are for women.
In some cases the backlog vacancies had been allotted to the vacancies that had been allotted even last time. If no candidate is available to fill up a post under reserved category, the rule says that the post should be nationally advertised for three times before being de-reserved.
Another issue that bothers the aspirants is how the roster system for posts for reserved categories will be implemented. No organisation reveals how the allotment is done under roster system and AU is no exception. The Government is only informed how many posts in the reserved categories are being filled up.
AU is filling up more than 170 vacancies this time while the requirement is more than 350. The long delay in recruitment (which of course needs Government consent) has resulted in the number of vacancies going up as many senior professors have retired during the last 12 years.
4-year degree course
A meeting of Vice-Chancellors of State universities held with the Chief Minister, Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, decided to introduce four-year degree course.
The four-year course idea received opposition from some sections of students since it has been sounded by the AP State Council of Higher Education.
But some argue that a four-year degree course (after the 10-year schooling and two-year Intermediate course) will make it easy for the Indian students to straightaway go abroad as it meets the foreign universities' condition that one must study continuously for 16 years in India.
In the existing pattern, a student wishing to study in a foreign university is studying in India for 15 consecutive years and is required to do a PG course of two years. Some feel that a one-year PG degree course can be designed to meet the 16-year study requirement.
Some administrators are of the opinion that the two-year PG degree course has resulted in a large number of students joining the universities and some among the students are creating trouble to the administrators. The unnecessary trouble from the students can be avoided through the four-year degree course as a student who is keen to go abroad will be serious with his or her studies.
5-year degree course in AU?
Andhra University is contemplating to introduce a five-year degree course in the campus, which will be an integrated course that includes social work, human resource management, sociology, and other related subjects. This course is likely to be introduced along with the four-year degree course.
Director of Development Cell
An Associate Professor of Department of Physics, K. Chandramouli, has been appointed as honorary Director of Andhra University Development Cell last week.
Yoga institute
Professor of Department of Psychology and Parapsychology K. Madhu has been appointed as Director of the A.U. Institute for Yoga and Consciousness.
AU teacher for US conference
An Associate Professor of Department of Mechanical Engineering in AU College of Engineering, Koona Ramji, is attending a conference and exposition on experimental and applied mechanics in St. Louis (USA). He will present a paper on dynamic behaviour of three-wheeled vehicle under random road characteristics using FEM.
Dr. Ramji participated in several national and international seminars and other programmes and presented many papers in the national and international journals. He was awarded the Brij Mohan Lal memorial gold medal for the best research work done and paper published in the journal of Institution of Engineers (India) 2005.
AU staff seek bus shelters
A large number of people, including the university students, teachers, employees and visitors alight and board the city buses near the AU out gate but they are forced to wait for buses under hot sun or pouring rain due to lack of bus shelters.
The AU United Staff Union regrets the situation since an important place in the city is without bus shelters. It requested the APSRTC authorities to provide bus shelters before the campus reopens after summer vacation.
G. NARASIMHA RAO
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