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Exploring tie-ups
Fighting for quality school education CAMPUS Note
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Exploring tie-ups East Asian countries with a predominance of China, Hong Kong and India are the main feed channels for the Australian universities. Indians, among them, are considered more hardworking and academically oriented than their peers from other nations.
“Indians on their part are viewed with a positive bias by Australia,” says Dr Dharmendra Sharma, Head of School of Information Sciences and Engineering, University of Canberra, Australia, who was on a visit to Chandigarh and Punjab. With foreign universities being allowed to operate and open campuses in India, he was here to explore the opportunities of possible pacts with various reputed educational institutions at the college level. “Not really a campus, but we would like to explore the possibilities of tie ups with popular educational institutes,” he explains. “The pull of the soil to which I belong is one dear reason which brings me to this soil. “This is my second visit to India. In addition to this, I have a large number of educational plans and academic exchanges up my sleeve.” Detailing the motive of his visit on a more specific basis, he discloses that the University of Canberra is fine-tuning a collaborative arrangement with the Regional Institute of Management Technology (RIMT), Mandi Gobindgarh. “The thrust will be to grow good ICT professionals, improve quality contemporary research and development composition and work out a provision of part degrees to enable students to begin a degree in India and complete it at the University of Canberra, Australia,” Sharma says. “We are still working on five to six thrust areas, under the umbrella of partnership, co-teaching, staff exchange, research and student exchange,” he details. He says both Masters and Bachelors of Business Informatics are equally sought after in Australia. “Among other popular courses are the Bachelor's of Software Engineering and Bachelor's of Information Technology,”
he adds. Sharma, who is a Ph.D in computer science from Australian National University, says Indian students are keen to study in Australia . “Australia is more conducive as an educational destination as compared to other countries luring Indian students,” Sharma adds. |
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Fighting for quality school education Development has been bypassing Mansa district for long, with education being the main victim of official and political apathy. Owing to poor education facilities, the district has the lowest literacy rate of 52 per cent in Punjab. The future is not shining with 55 per cent of students dropping out at the middle level and 72 per cent at the Matric level. An NGO, Save Education Committee, has been hammering the government and politicians for the rueful state of education. Holding the politicians responsible for the mess, Darshan Singh Dhillon, convener of the organisation, says, “They do not want the electorate to be educated enough so as to question their policies and motives.” A ready-reckoner on the status of education, Dhillon reveals that 39 out of the 41 senior secondary schools are running without any permanent principal. Fifteen schools have no lecturers while as many as 600 posts of teachers are lying vacant. Computer education, the key component of modern education, is also missing from the school curriculum. In the state, most of the middle schools and nearly half of the high schools don't have such facility. Various political parties have been committed to provide vocational education in 50 per cent of the 52 high schools. However, only three schools have the facility till date. Twenty-five per cent schools have no potable water, whereas 75 per cent schools have no laboratories and libraries. The district has no medical, engineering, agriculture, veterinary, management and B.Ed college. A government college had come up as early in 1956 in Mansa. Since then no new college has come up. Also, there is no college in Sardulgarh and Budhlada Assembly constituencies. So, attaining higher education becomes costlier when students have to go to other cities for degree courses. The District Institute of Education and Training has only three lecturers on temporary deputation against 20 regular posts, while the Industrial Training Institute is functioning from just two rooms at
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CAMPUS Note The scientists of Haryana Agricultural University (HAU) here have forewarned the farmers of Haryana about the spread of pod borer insect (Helicoverpa armigera) in gram crop. The Director of Research at HAU, Dr B.S. Chhillar, disclosed that surveys conducted by two senior entomologists of the university, Dr H.R. Rohilla and Dr R.K. Saini, had revealed the incidence of pod borer, commonly called as "tant ki sundi", in various villages of Hisar and Bhiwani districts. Here, the insect had been found to crossing the economic threshold limit i.e. one larva per metre row length, he said. Dr Chhillar maintained that in view of the crop stage and the prevailing climatic conditions, the incidence of pod borer was most likely to increase further in the coming days. In Haryana, gram crop is being sown in rainfed areas of Hisar, Fatehabad, Sirsa, Bhiwani, Rohtak, Jind, Rewari and Mahendergarh districts. The insect is polyfagous and apart from gram, it also attacks several crops including tomato, cotton and field-peas. In cotton, it is called American bollworm. The Director has advised the farmers to be careful and monitor the crop regularly. Wherever the insect had crossed economic threshold level, the farmers should immediately spray the crop with the recommended insecticides. Senior Entomologists Dr H.R. Rohilla and Dr Roshan Lal have advised that "chatri-matri" weed must be removed from removed from gram fields as the pod-borer lays eggs on this creeper weed. — Contributed by Sunit Dhawan
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