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Degree exam results delayed
G. NARASIMHA RAO
It is summer vacation in Andhra University but the delay in announcement of results of degree examinations continues to haunt the administration. Last year, it announced the results in a record time of 14 days and this year nearly one-and-a-half months have passed since the examinations are over but the results are not announced, thanks to a private agency not able to compile the results because it has taken up the job of four universities and also faced some problems regarding the AU answer scripts which it did not notice when it entered into a contract.
Vice-Chancellor in-charge B. Satyanarayana is trying to get the results published without further delay but the efforts are yet to fructify. AUCET will be held from next week and AU students are worried that they may not be able to get admission in other universities without the results being announced.
AU is also facing problems with results of post-graduate examinations as there is likely to be a delay here also. The details of internal examinations from some departments are yet to reach the Examination Section as HoDs and the staff concerned are out of the town due to summer vacation or some other reasons.
AU prof. for Italy meet
A senior professor of Department of Meteorology and Oceanography A.A.L.N. Sarma will present a research paper on “studies in thermal health effects of climate change-India” at the ICTP-IAEA conference on “predicting disease patterns according to climate change” to be held at Trieste in Italy during mid May.
Race for VC post
There is no indication when the State Government will appoint a full-time VC for AU but all the hopefuls are camping in Hyderabad and are trying all avenues to get the top post. Those from BC categories are making more efforts as there is an indication from the Government that the VC post will be given to one from BCs.
The Andhra University Backward Classes Association has appealed to the State Government to appoint a BC professor as VC, while thanking the Government for appointing a BC as Vice-Chancellor in-charge. Only one BC professor held the post during the university’s more than eight decades old existence, the association said. Meanwhile, the local unit of Tribal Students Federation appealed to the Chief Minister to allot the post to a ST professor as no one from ST community held the post so far.
Law HoD for US conference
HoD of law, AU Dr. Ambedkar College of Law A. Rajendra Prasad is one of the four international experts invited to attend a conference on “teaching consumer law” being organised by the Centre for Consumer Law of University of Houston Law Centre (US) on May 23 and 24. Prof. Rajendra Prasad will present a paper on “teaching consumer law: developing countries’ perspective with special reference to Indian experience” at the conference.
Yoga camp for AU employees
The Institute of Yoga and Consciousness which is organising yoga and meditation camp through out the year and also run certificate courses is conducting a free yoga and meditation camp for teaching and non-teaching staff and research scholars of the university, to improve their physical and mental health, says Principal of AU College of Law L.K. Mohana Rao.
The camps will be held at the TLN Sabha Hall in the campus from May 15 to 29, from 6 a.m. to 7.30 a.m. every day. Interested have to enrol on or before May 13 (contact Nos. 98493 84419, 2701009 or 2566640). Assistant Professor of Yoga Institute K. Ramesh Babu will conduct the classes.
University Adalat
The monthly University Adalat will beheld on May 17 at the Law College, from 10 a.m. to noon.
Awarded Ph.D.
A teacher of a municipal high school in Srikakulam, Jallepalli Padma Kumari, has been awarded Ph.D. in education for her thesis on achievement levels as a function of intelligence and socio-economic status in the 10th class pupils of Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation high schools. Former Dean (education) Y.F.W. Prasada Rao was her guide.
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