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B.Sc Home Science syllabi to be revised Ludhiana, February 13 Giving this information, Dr S.K. Mann, Dean of the college and chairperson of the board, said that the decision has been taken following the guidelines sent by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) recently. She said till date the college was following the 3+1 pattern under which students were taught core subjects for the first three years and elective subjects only for the final year. However, from the next session, the college would follow the 2+2 pattern under which the students would be taught core subjects in the first two years and elective subjects in the last two years. Ms Mann said the new study pattern would enable the students to learn more about the fields they would specialise in. She said the students taking ‘Food and nutrition’ as elective subject would now take up subjects such as therapeutic nutrition, dietetics and catering management in depth during their third and fourth year. These students would have better chances of job opportunities as diet consultants or contractors in hotels, hospitals, hostel and campus canteens, tourist spots and other eating joints. Besides, they would be able to perform well since they would also be taking up six weeks of internship during their graduation in such places, she said. Similarly, the students taking family resource and management would be taking interior designing and institutional housekeeping courses in detail, said Ms Mann. The students choosing Human development as their elective subject would be taught organisational management of early childhood programme and special education for disabled kids in more depth. Likewise, students of clothing and textiles would be studying detailed aspects of post-harvest technologies, apparel and textile designing, while students of home science extension would take up journalism and mass communication, distance education and information technology at length. The Dean informed that the Board of Studies would hold a meeting in the next week in which she along with the heads of all five departments of the college and senior professors would participate. She said all members of the board would give ideas and suggestions so as to revise the syllabi for all four years. These ideas and suggestions would then be presented before the Residence Instruction Committee (RIC) in which Deans of all colleges would take part. The RIC would then send their proposals to the Academic Council for final consent. Ms Mann said the ICAR had also offered monetary help to the college for setting up better infrastructure that would help meet the requirements of the new study pattern. |
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Teachers
urged to promote oral health Ludhiana, February 13 Dr J.L. Joshi, Principal of Christian Dental College and Acting Director of Christian Medical College and Hospital, inaugurated this workshop. In his inaugural address, Dr Joshi said ignorance regarding basics of oral health was the cause of increase in various oral and dental diseases, particularly dental caries, gum diseases, irregular teeth, bad oral ulcers and oral cancers. Dr Joshi urged all teachers and community leaders to promote oral hygiene and oral health by educating children and communities about the need to keep the mouth and the teeth clean. Dr Joshi told them to make full use of the various specialised dental services offered by Christian Dental College, for which, they would get various concessions. Earlier, Dr N.C. Mann, senior consultant in the CDC, told the participants about dental diseases that don’t look threatening at the onset. Pain and the other symptoms appear only when the disease is at an advanced stage. Dr Mann said more than 84 per cent children and more than 90 per cent adults suffered from one or the other dental disease. The incidence of oral cancer is on the rise because of the unrestricted use of tobacco products like ‘zarda’, ‘pan masala’, ‘gutkha’ and ‘chutki’, particularly among the youth. Special lectures were delivered by senior faculty members of the college like Dr Manisha Prabhakar, Dr Harinder Kuchreja, Dr M.P. Singh, Dr George Koshy and others. Special audio-visual aids, oral-health exhibitions and demonstration of the correct method of brushing were also organised. Skits based on folk songs, highlighting the importance of oral healthcare, were presented by students of Christian Dental College. |
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PTU
colleges form body Ludhiana, February 13 The association has appointed Col H.S. Singha, Director of the Institute of Management at Model Town, its president and Prof Manudeep Kaushal, Director of BNM College of Technical Education at Alamgir, its secretary. At the first meeting of the association, the members resolved to get their common problems solved. The issues to be taken up with the government and its committees included the holding of common entrance test for postgraduate courses in business management and computer applications, checking mushrooming of technical-education institutes and allowing affiliated colleges to run the PG diploma courses in management and computer applications. |
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Seminar
on ways to improve education Ludhiana, February 13 Giving this information, Prof S.S. Pawar, general
secretary of the council, said Mr Sohan Lal, DPI (Secondary), Mr J.S.
Khattra, DPI (Elementary), and Mr S.S.S. Randhawa, Director, State
Council of Education and Research Training and Sarab Siksha Abhiyan,
had already sent confirmation regarding their participation. The
District Education Officers (both Elementary and Secondary) of Punjab,
principals of government and adarsh schools as well as DIETs would
participate in the seminar, he said. Besides, Prof Pawar said, Dr T.R.
Sharma, former Professor and Head of Department of Education and
Community Services, Punjabi University, Prof Narinder Kaur, Secretary
and Controller of the PSEB, Dr D.S. Dev, former Dean College of
Agriculture, PAU, Dr Ranjit Singh, Dr M.A.Zahir and other scientists
from the PAU would join the deliberations. Other participants would
include eminent school teachers, village leaders, headmasters and
principals who had made a mark in rural education, he said. |
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Dharna by PAU teachers Ludhiana, February 13 The call for dharna was given by the AIFUTA and PFUTA for justice to the university teachers of the country and acceptance of their long-pending demands. The association opposed the idea of contract appointment in universities being proposed by the University Grants Commission (UGC). It is being felt that contract appointments are not only academically harmful but also affect adversely the service conditions of university teachers. The other demands like implementation of a uniform pension scheme in all universities, grant of benefit of total service in the career advancement scheme and implementation of the CAS from January 1, 1996, super time scale to university professors, grant of Ph.D increments and increase of age for superannuation to 62 years were also pressed for immediate acceptance in the dharna. PAUTA demanded from the Punjab Government to release Rs 22 crore as contribution towards the CPF as already decided by the Board of Management.
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Inter-college music
contest Ludhiana, February 13 Dr Rameshinder Bal, Mr Tarlochan Lochi, Mrs Raman Gujral and Mr Sudhir Kaushal were the judges. Prof P.S. Sethi, Dean, Cultural Activities, Prof Jatinder Sekhon, Ms Rekha, Dr G.S. Walia and Dr Amrit Rishma were the event managers.
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