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FOR DEVELOPMENT: (from left) Aruna Saivakami, Vice-Chancellor, Mother Teresa Women's University, Jeyalakshmi, District Social Welfare Officer and M. Punithambal, Director, at the Research and Extension Centre of the university in Madurai. (Below) Rev. Fr. Xavier Alphonse, member, UGC and Director, Madras Centre for Research and Development and Community Education, at Fatima College.
Women are capable of contributing their intellectual and spiritual power and should utilise their power and strength for societal development, said Aruna Sivakami, Vice-Chancellor, Mother Teresa Women’s University.
Addressing the Capacity Building Training for women councillors of the Corporation and Panchayat presidents of Madurai district, she said that women should be aware of their rights, which was essential to overcome violence and raise their status. The training was inaugurated at Mother Teresa Women’s University, Research and Extension Centre, Madurai on Friday. M. Jeyalakshmi, District Social Welfare officer, spoke on the schemes introduced for the women by the Government.
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The perspectives of higher education in the Eleventh Five Year Plan are access, expansion and quality, said, Rev. Fr. Xavier Alphonse, member, UGC and Director, Madras Centre for Research and Development and Community Education. He was addressing a national seminar on Enhancing and Sustaining Quality in Higher Education-Intervention Strategies on Friday organised by the Internal Quality Assurance Cell of Fatima College.
Fr. Alphonse said that excellence was not an achievement, but it was tapping the untapped potential found among the underprivileged and disadvantaged students in the society and help them blossom forth. He also discussed issues relating to faculty development programmes, problems of minority and non-minority institutions.
Rev. Sr. A. Jospin Nirmala Mary, vice principal released the seminar proceedings and Rev. Sr. A. Fatima, Principal, delivered the presidential address.
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A waste paper recycling unit was inaugurated at the Lady Doak College on Wednesday and hands-on-training on paper waste management, mushroom cultivation and vermicomposting were offered to the students.
This inauguration was part of the State level seminar cum workshop on Environmental Stewardship in Recycling of Resources, Waste minimisation and management”, organised by Department of Botany, Lady Doak College. The seminar was sponsored by UGC
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The Department of Zoology and Microbiology, Thiagarajar College organised a State level seminar on “Evolution: From Molecules to Mankind’” here on Thursday.
R.Dinakaran Michael, Director, Centre for Fish Immunology, Lady Doak College, delivered the keynote address. During his address he hailed Darwin as the greatest biologist of all time and highlighted the importance of evolution and creation, gave descr
iptions on the Natural Selection Theory of Darwin, his HMS Beagle Voyage and also his association with Alfred Russell Wallace.
R.Raja Govindasamy, principal of the college presided over the event and T.Manoharan, Head, Department pf Zoology welcomed the gathering. Prizes were distributed to students who submitted papers.
(CONTRIBUTED BY D. KARTHIKEYAN)
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