Thursday, January 10, 2008

IGNOU Joins hands with abu dhabi

Indira Gandhi National Open University signed a memorandum of collaboration with Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT), Abu Dhabi, this past week for offering degree and diploma program at under-graduate and post-graduate levels. The agreement was signed by IGNOU Vice-Chancellor V. N. Rajasekharan Pillai and his counterpart at HCT, Tayeb Kamali.
Both parties will cooperate in the areas of education, training and related activities in the field of health manpower development. The agreement will seek to encourage academic exchange and collaboration.
Appreciating the cooperation of teachers in getting Aligarh Muslim University back to “normal full-fledged academic activities”, Vice-Chancellor P. K. Abdul Azis presented an agenda for academic rejuvenation in a letter addressed to the faculty on New Year’s Eve.
Spelling out the contours of the academic agenda, Prof. Azis urged the teachers to encourage research scholars to submit their theses within three to five years. “At least 500 teachers should submit research projects for various national or international funding agencies with a target to raise at least Rs.200 crore for innovative research in areas of national and regional importance,” the letter said.
According to the letter, every teacher must publish one research paper per year in the journals of international repute and at least 1, 000 research papers should be published by the end of 2008.
“The letter put premium on revising the syllabus of various courses. It also proposed holding a series of workshops for syllabus revision and for acquainting the teachers with the availability of project funding,” said a University release.
J K Business School (JKBS), Gurgaon, has signed agreements with two foreign universities. The first was with California State University Monterey Bay. Both institutions agreed to cooperate in academic exchanges, programme development and research.
JKBS will offer special modules to update understanding of management systems in India, business environment, culture and traditions for the visiting delegation, said a release.
The other agreement was signed between JKBS and International University in Geneva to collaborate on a large number of academic activities involving the faculty and students of both institutions.
Institute of Clinical Research (India), ICRI, India’s premier institution in clinical research studies, has invited application for a one-year (part-time) post-graduate diploma in Pharmacovigilance.
The course would include basic principles of Pharmacovigilance; Regulations in Pharmacovigilance in Clinical Research and Causality Assessment of Suspected Adverse Drugs Reactions.
The course begins this February at ICRI centres in Delhi, Mumbai, Ahmedabad and Bangalore.
The prospectus can be obtained from the institute on any working day between 10 a.m. and 7 p.m