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How students were helped for their exam
PU News
Scholarships for rural candidates
Campus Notes
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How students were helped for their exam
RUSH hour was rescheduled, aircraft landings were delayed and even the stock market opened late as more than half a million South Korean children sat a crucial examination on last Thursday.
Parents could be seen praying outside schools where their kids were taking the College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT), a decisive factor in determining future careers. At Incheon city near Seoul younger students and graduates lined up outside a high school, cheering on test applicants and handing them cups of coffee and tea before their ordeal. Military training exercises nationwide were suspended and military aircraft grounded to avoid noise during audio foreign language tests, a spokesman for the Joint Chiefs of Staff told AFP. Seven inbound flights to the country’s main airport Incheon were told to stay at an altitude of 10,000 feet as students took the first audio test that lasted 13 minutes. “We have been forewarning all airlines about the restriction over the past month so that they may adjust flight schedules to avoid landing during the hearing test sessions,” an air traffic controller said. The stock market, government agencies and many private firms opened one hour later to ease morning traffic jams that could cause students to be late. “Dealers and investors take it for granted since CSAT is considered so important in this country,” said Hong Joon-Yon, spokesman for the Korea Securities Dealers Association. At the presidential Blue House First Lady Kim Yoon-Ok reportedly sent rice cakes to the children of Blue House employees who were due to take the exam. Rice cakes, whose stickiness symbolises sticking to success, are a favourite lucky gift for CSAT day together with candies. Education authorities said about 590,000 students sat the day-long exam at nearly 1,000 centres. To prevent cheating, they were banned from carrying electronic gadgets such as mobile phones or MP3 players. Some 14,000 police officers as well as 6,800 taxi drivers and more than 4,200 police vehicles were on stand-by to help students arrive in time, Yonhap news agency said. Subways and buses ran more frequently in the morning. In the southeastern city of Ulsan, 11 emergency vehicles and 22 rescuers were deployed at key intersections to help students who overslept to arrive at test sites on time. Critics say the CSAT exam tests rote learning and sometimes involves expensive private tutoring. It plays a decisive role in deciding which colleges and universities students enter, and thus their future careers. In Korea, great emphasis is placed on attendance at a prestigious
university. An estimated 200 stressed students commit suicide in South Korea every year, according to police statistics. “CSAT tends to favour students whose brains are crammed through rote learning and it fails to select students with potential and creativity,” Song In-Soo, an educational activist said. “We must shift to a more advanced system through which students are tested, observed and developed over a long time instead of a one-off, multiple-answer test like CSAT.” — AFP
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PU News Panjab University’s Dr H. S. Judge Institute of Dental Sciences is all set to provide the students with an in-house research institute-cum-hospital—Panjab University’s Institute of Research and Hospital—on the south campus of the university. Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil, laid the foundation stone of the research institute-cum-hospital on November 15. The hospital, which is to be built on an approximate cost of around Rs 20 crore, will have a state-of-the-art building with latest research facilities. With an envisaged covered area of 1,20,000 sq feet comprising of a ground floor and two other floors, and a provision for further expansion to the 3rd floor, this hospital will provide OPD services to not only the residents of Chandigarh but also to that of surrounding areas. Apart from this, four operation theatres would also form part of the hospital along with some diagnostic lab facilities. This planned 100-bedded hospital will have OPDs in general medicine, general surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology, radio diagnosis, paediatrics and physiotherapy. Out of 100 beds, 30 each will be in Medicine and Surgery wards, 15 in Maternity Ward, 10 in Emergency, six in Paediatrics and four in the Intensive Care Unit. The private room service with facility of five beds will also be available in the hospital.
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Scholarships for rural candidates TAKING up the responsibility to uplift the meritorious students in the countryside, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, has instituted two scholarships of Rs 4,000 each per year per affiliated college and two scholarship of Rs 5,000 each per year per constituent college, including regional campuses and departments on the main campus. These scholarships have been instituted from the interest money earned from the fund amounting to Rs 1,58,50,000 approximately available under the world university service, merit-cum-means. These scholarships will be given to the needy and brilliant freshly admitted students only in the beginning of the academic session. Preference will be given to those students who have passed their middle- and secondary-level examinations from government/government-aided schools situated in the rural areas of Punjab. Universities are academic institutions meant for creation and dissemination of knowledge in human society. Whereas, systemic and scientific pedagogy is an essential aspect of this function of a university, it is the research in various disciplines which lays the foundation for it. The systematised knowledge in humanities, sciences and various technologies has always been created in universities the world over. Guru Nanak Dev University was established in 1969 with the above-mentioned aim, as it was specifically enshrined in its Act that this university shall exercise power to “make provision for imparting education and for promoting research in the humanities, learned professions, sciences, especially of applied nature, technology....” Keeping in view this thrust in the university’s Act, the university has always endeavored to pursue research in various fields and has also attempted to make it relevant to the needs of society. Research activities, conducted in a vigorous manner and at a steadily accelerating pace, need incentives. Professor Jai Rup Singh, immediately after his appointment as Vice-Chancellor of Guru Nanak Dev University, announced the first incentive for research activities by instituting a fund out of its own financial resources for initiating the lecturers into the arena of research. Continuing this practice, the Syndicate in its meeting held on October17, 2008, gave its approval to a number of schemes meant for promoting and strengthening research. In order to promote research and to enhance cooperation between the faculty and students and the scientists and academicians of repute, two awards of “Excellence in Science and Technology, and Arts and Social Sciences” carrying an award money of Rs 1 lakh, a citation and a medal have been instituted. These awards for will be given on alternate years. Similarly, a provision has been made for the Guru Nanak Dev University Award for Excellence in Human Genetics out of the interest to be earned from the balance amount (Rs 25.50 lakh) of funds collected from the five international symposia on genetics, health and disease organised over the past years. This award will be given to a scientist of international repute in human genetics. The scientist should be of Punjabi origin (India and Pakistan) or has been working in Punjab for more than 10 years. The awardee will also be required to make a presentation of his/her research work to the students and faculty of the university at a seminar. Out of the same fund, a provision has also been made for awarding a scholarship of Rs 2,400 per annum to each student admitted to M.Sc. (Hons.) in human genetics.
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Campus Notes Khalsa College of Education, Amritsar, has the Championship Trophy at the Zonal Youth Festival (B.Ed. Colleges) organised by the university recently. While DAV College of Education for Women, Amritsar, and Khalsa College for Education, Ranjit Avenue, Amritsar, stood second, MGN College of Education, Jalandhar, bagged the third position. More than 1,200 students of 30 B.Ed. colleges affiliated to the university participated in this festival. Dr Raghbir Singh, Dean Academic Affairs of the university, presided over the valedictory function and gave away trophies to the winners, while Baljit Singh Sekhon, Director, Youth Welfare, welcomed the chief guest. Addressing the students, Raghbir Singh said sports and cultural activities are the integral part of student life. He said every student should participate in these activities for their overall development.
Documentary on Hasham Shah As part of the ongoing Punjabi Week celebrations, a documentary on the life and works of famous medieval Punjabi poet Sayyed Hasham Shah was screened before the faculty members and students on the concluding day of the celebrations. The documentary was produced and directed by Gulshan Walia at the behest of Indira Gandhi Centre for Arts, New Delhi, which was released in September this year. The centre encourages film producers and directors to make films on Indian heritage to make international audience aware of richness of our cultural traditions. Keeping in view the international audience, the film is in English, though the singing of "kissas" and comments are in Punjabi with sub-titles in English. The speakers on the occasion claimed that the documentary was likely to find its place in coming international film festival. Incidentally, majority of critical comments in the film are by the faculty members and ex-students of the School of Punjabi Studies of the university. Others who commentated included Dr Nahar Singh, Dr Surjit Patar and Satnam Chana.
Neurochemical workshop The Department of Biotechnology of the university in association with IBRO-DBT-ICMR-CSIR- SNCI will organise a 10-day workshop on "Basic Neurochemical Techniques for Young Neuro Scientists" from November 17. According to Dr Gurcharan Kaur, Coordinator and Head of Department, Dr S. S. Chahal, Director, Research, will inaugurate the workshop, while Dr Renu Wadhwa of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan, will deliver the inaugural address. She said more than 25 young neuro scientists from India and abroad would participate in the workshop, while eight subject experts would impart training. The workshop will conclude on November 27. —
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