Psychology department of Punjab University (PU) has started the structured Counselling Cell for the benefit of the PU students. The facility will be made functional from Monday, June 3. Vice Chancellor Prof Arun K Grover, DUI Pr Madhu Raka, Registrar Prof AK Bhandari, DSW Prof AS Ahluwalia, Dean Research Prof RK Pathak and other officers visited the facility and interacted with the organisers.
While lauding the efforts, Prof Grover said that more such initiatives are required to make the stay of students more comfortable on the campus.
lM Thapar School of Management to empower students with concept classrooms
Management programs are in for a makeover and the lM Thapar School of Management have emerged as the trendsetter.
Its state-of-the-art campus, coming up at Dera Bassi near Chandigarh with an investment of Rs130 crore, will have 12 Wi-Fi enabled smart classrooms with digital podiums, video conferencing facility and IP camera for web streaming.
Soon, all management programs running at Thapar University, Patiala will move to the Dera Bassi campus.
Fully equipped with Wi-Fi connectivity (internet bandwidth of 45 Mbps) through a centrally managed access point, the new campus will offer concept classrooms which will enablestudents to access their assignments, library or study material at their own comfort and time, using the learning Management System.
The students can catch up with the lecture delivered in theclass on the local network. They can access assignments while in the library and submit them sitting at home through their official ID.
Need for software in vernaculars
Noted Software expert Dr Fakir Chand Kohli, known as Father of the Indian Software Industry said that there was need to write software in vernacular languages to reach out to the masses while he returned to his alma mater, Panjab University, for an alumni meet.
Kohli addressing a brainstorming session on “Strategy for Enhancing Quality of Engineering Education” organized at the Golden Jubilee Conference Hall said that said that software in India are being made in English but one should not forget that 900 million people in India doesn’t speak English, therefore, to cater to their computing needs the software’s should be written in vernacular languages as is being done in countries like China, France and Saudi Arabia.