Panjab University’s (PU), Vice-Chancellor Prof Arun Kumar Grover on Thursday said that leading Indian universities should be given liberal funding to help them compete with their international counterparts. Funds may be used to provide some basic financial support and requisite infrastructure to the bright students so that they could be retained in the Indian institutions and do not go abroad for higher education.
He was addressing the University Ranking: an Evolving landscape for India at New Delhi. Prof Grover spoke on the topic of Global University Rankings-Relevance and Applicability to the Indian Context. PU was declared top ranked University in Asia University Ranking 2014 by Times Higher Education (THE) in its survey released on Thursday. The one-day summit was organised by the Planning Commission, Government of India in collaboration with British Council, Times Higher Education and Thomson Reuters.
PU Prof to present paper in Italy Chandigarh: Department of Public Administration, Panjab University (PU), Chandigarh, Prof Ramanjit Kaur Johal is traveling to Venice, Italy to present a paper (co-authored), The Social Environment: A Perspective on Change and the 21st century in India at the International Conference of Academic Disciplines.
The conference, organised by the International Journal of Arts and Sciences’ (IJAS), will be held from June 30 to July 3, 2014 at the historic Ca’ Foscari University.Prof Johal, recently appointed PU, Dean International Students is a Fulbright alumna. In the tradition of the Fulbright programme this conference will also dwell on the benefits of international education emanating from study abroad programmes.
Roll nos of UGS-NET students uploaded Chandigarh: The roll numbers of all the candidates of the UGC-NET examination for Junior Research Fellowship and Eligibility for lectureship scheduled to be held on June 29, 2014 have been uploaded along with the centers on the PU website.The candidates should write name of their centre on the admit card. 17,117 candidates shall be appearing at centre 48 i.e., Panjab University (PU), Chandigarh. As many as forty three centres have been established in PU and various local colleges of Chandigarh.