The Tribune, Chandigarh, India

EDUCATION

Rohtak economist to visit foreign varsities as professor
Our Correspondent

Rohtak, August 30
An Australian university and two universities of New Zealand have awarded visiting professorship to Dr Sri Bhagwan Dahiya, an internationally distinguished professor of economics and Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, Maharshi Dayanand University here.

Dr Dahiya would deliver research seminar papers on corporate governance at the University of New England in Australia, University of Otage and Massey University, Auckland in New Zealand. Macmillan Palgrave, one of the major international publishers, is publishing Dr Dahiya’s work on corporate governance. Prof Dahiya is a visiting professor at the University of Paris in France, University of Rome and University of Tuscia at Viterbo in Italy and University of Canberra in Australia. He is also a visiting fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex in the United Kingdom, and at Free University, Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

The Carvit Foundation has earlier invited Dr Dahiya to deliver the Schumpeter Lecture in Italy in May 1999. The foundation invites internationally distinguished scholars to deliver this lecture every year. Dr Dahiya has delivered research papers in a number of universities in Germany, Switzerland, Australia and France. Among others, these include Australian National University and Grenoble University in France.

Prof Dahiya has already received several national and international awards and honours through the UGC from the Government of India, the British Government and the French Government. These include the Commonwealth Staff Academic Fellowship, the two time award under the Indo-French Programme of Co-operation in Social Sciences. He is also the Chief Editor of ‘International Journal of Development Planning Literature’, the ‘International Journal of Accounting Literature’, the ‘International Quarterly Journal of Finance’, the ‘International Journal of Management Literature’ and the ‘International Quarterly Journal of Marketing’.

Inter-school competition held at Modern School
Tribune News Service

Faridabad, August 30
An Inter-School fancy dress and dramatisation of English rhymes competition was held at Modern School, Sector 17, here recently. It was inaugurated by Ms Valeria Sharma and presided over by Mrs Deepali Jain, headmistress of the school.

Bhavesh and Charlie from Shamrock Maharaja Play School and Deeksha of Kids Kinder respectively won first and second prizes in the age group below three years for the English rhymes section. Ratula of Modern School, Noida, Mayank of Modern School, Sector 17 here and Haisha of Aggarwal Public School got the first and second prizes in the nursery and kindergarten section.

In the fancy dress competition, Amit Thakur, a KG student of Modern School, Noida, got the first prize and Piyan Masook of Geeta Bal Niketan School the second prize. Nida from John F. Kennedy School and Himanshu of DAV, Sector 14 were given consolation prizes in the category.

DELHI DIGEST
Ignou extends registration dates
Our Correspondent

New Delhi, August 30
Indira Gandhi National Open University (Ignou) has extended its last date for admission, course registration and re-registration of various academic programmes for the session commencing from January-2003.

The last date for submission of admission forms with late fee of Rs. 200 shall be September 30, 2002 and with late fee of Rs 500, October 15, 2002.

These are applicable for all programmes except B.Ed, Management, BIT and ADIT. However, for all certificate programmes, last date remains November 30, 2002.

Registration and Re-Registration for 2nd and 3rd year of B.A./B.Com/B.Sc/BTS/B.Sc (N)/M.A./MTM and of BTCM/BTWRE and for the semester commencing January2003,BCA,MCA,MBA,MBA (B&F) shall be October 20, 2002 with late fee of Rs 200.

Re-registration forms have already been sent to all the eligible candidates from their respective regional centres. Students who have not received their forms should contact their regional centers. Forms completed in all respect along with fees should be sent to the concerned Regional Centre.