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CAMPUS JOTTINGS

Foreign students flock to AU

Thanks to Vice-Chancellor L. Venugopal Reddy’s initiative, there are a good number of foreign students seen in the campus. More than 60 students from African, Gulf and neighbouring countries like Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, etc., have been given admission into various courses in campus colleges this year.

Prof. Jagannadha Rao, Advisor, International Students Affairs, held a briefing to these students and explained to them about the campus, its courses, accommodation, Indian culture etc.

AU is keen to extend the facility to the foreign students and is also launching joint masters programmes with foreign universities. Any major move will have some teething problems and the entry of foreign students is not an exception. They have joined the courses offered to them or chosen by them but they are now facing some difficulty in the sense that the course structure at undergraduate degree level in their home countries does not jell with the PG programme here. There is also an urgent need to complete the construction of two foreign students’ hostels in the campus to overcome the accommodation problem.

Teaching Assistants are likely to get appointment orders during August for the current academic year. They are being continued since the academic year commenced in June and are reportedly sounded that they will be considered while filling up teachers’ vacancies. But some feel that confirming the continuance of TAs for this academic year has effectively eliminated the possibility of filling up the teachers’ vacancies during this year.

Last week Prof. Venugopal Reddy inaugurated an inter-disciplinary refresher course in environmental sciences at the UGC Academic Staff College. He wanted the environmentalists to suggest to the policy-makers to improve the curriculum. Director of ASC K. Ravi, course coordinators EUB Reddy and T. Bairagi Reddy, HoD P.V.V. Prasada Rao and others spoke.

T.V. Ramana Murthy is Finance Officer of AU and he is adept in writing books apart from handling figures and statements. “Images in Profile” written by Mr. Ramana Murthy was released by the Vice-Chancellor last week.

The Department of Meteorology and Oceanography is conducting campus interviews for the Vestas Wind Technology Pvt. Ltd. at the department premises on August 2, informs HoD K.V.S.R. Prasad.

Principal of AU College of Arts and Commerce J.V. Prabhakara Rao handed over the Pratibha scholarship worth Rs.15,000 to an M.Com. student V. Naresh Kumar.

AU administration has taken back five employees who have been removed from the service in the past due to various reasons. The Vice-Chancellor has decided to take back the employees on humanitarian grounds, according to Registrar P. Vijaya Prakash. Prof. Venugopal Reddy handed over the orders to these employees last week.

Lecturer of a city college attended the eighth World Hindi Conference held in New York recently. Dr. K. Shanti of Gayatri Vidya Parishad is a Member of the Hindi Advisory Committee of Ministry of External Affairs has had been deputed by the Central Government to the conference.

Former Union Minsiter Karan Singh who was chief guest of the valedictory function, honoured scholars from different countries.

Dr. Y. Lakshmi Prasad headed the team of representatives from AP. HoD of Hindi of AU, K. Sitalakshmi and UGC scientist and retired professor of AU S. Sesha Ratnam have also participated in the conference.

Vikas Mahila Kalasala welcomed its freshers by organising the Freshers’ Day. The cultural programme consisted of dances and other fine arts from different parts of India, in tune with the first item “Unity in Diversity”. Chairman of Vikas Educational Institutions T. Naga Prasad inaugurated the programme.

The Uttarandhra Vidyardhi Sena submitted a memorandum to AU VC requesting the administration to erect a bronze bus of former VC M. Gopalakrishna Reddy who passed away recently. It also wanted one of the campus colleges to be named after him.

The Telugu Nadu Students Federation wanted the AU administration to solve problems being faced by the students. Among its demands were withdrawal of fee hike, construction of more hostel building and increase in scholarship amount.

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