Hyderabad: The University of Hyderabad is gearing up for students union elections. Unlike in the English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU), where polls are a controversial issue due to the opposition of students to the Lyngdoh Committee recommendations, the elections are relatively smooth and uncomplicated in UoH. BV Sharma, Dean of Students Welfare, said student organisations in the university have been notified and advised to dissolve the current student committee and elect a new election commission on September 25. The elected members of the commission will oversee the student elections.
The general body meeting is slated to be held at 5 pm Tuesday, where the student committee will submit its annual report. It will contain a summary of what they did in the past year. Also we will try to hold elections before the bio-diversity conference begins, or at least before October 5, explained Sharma. He confirmed that the recommendations of the JM Lyngdoh Committee will be followed in the upcoming elections.
Student organisations on the campus are looking to make the most of the anti-incumbency feeling amongst students against the current alliance of the Students Federation of India (SFI) and the Ambedkar Students Association (ASA) which have been winning for the last two years. This time around there is a huge anti-incumbency feeling in the university, and the inability to address various problems faced by students also leaves a big vacuum to be occupied, said Susheel Kumar, an ABVP member. He claimed that cracks in the
01:41 PM, Sep 25, 2012
Hyderabad: That the University of Hyderabad offers quality education is well known. Reinforcing the same, its Department of English, for the first time, has earned for itself a place among the Top 200 best places to study English in the annual survey of the QS World University Rankings. It is ranked among the 150-200 category alongside the departments of the Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi and the University of Kolkata. However,...
02:05 PM, Sep 24, 2012
Hyderabad: Police have decided to tighten the drive against drunken driving in Cyberabad following last weeks attempt by a group of youngsters to kidnap a girl from the University of Hyderabad campus. Sources in the department said a directive was issued to further intensify the drive soon after the incident. The police officials, however, pointed out that they had been conducting the drive in Cyberabad limits for some time now...
03:03 PM, Sep 03, 2012
Hyderabad: There is fear and anger among students of the University of Hyderabad following the attempt of a group of youngsters to kidnap a girl on the campus on Thursday night. Hundreds of them gathered in front of the administration block on Friday morning demanding action against the culprits and increased security on the campus. Heated arguments, discussions and much more followed through the course of the day as students...
01:31 PM, Sep 01, 2012
HYDERABAD: The stand-off between the students and the management over the non-recognition of the University of Hyderabads integrated masters course in nursing sciences by the Indian Nursing School (INC) finally ended on Monday following a written assurance from Vice-Chancellor Prof Ramakrishna Ramaswamy that he would put the best foot forward to resolve the issue.The students, who had been boycotting classes for the last one week, enforced a bandh across the...
08:55 AM, Mar 20, 2012
HYDERABAD: Nursing students of the School of Medical Sciences at the University of Hyderabad on Tuesday took to the streets in protest against the administrations failure to get the Indian Nursing Councils (INC) recognition for the five-year integrated masters course in nursing sciences.The course was introduced in 2008 by the then vice-chancellor Prof Sayed E Hasnain and the School of Medical Sciences had at the time assured the students that...
08:31 AM, Mar 14, 2012
HYDERABAD: Even as the vice-chancellor of the University of Hyderabad (UoH) asserted on Tuesday that there is no discrimination in the university, gay poet and professor at the varsity, Hoshang Merchant, stuck to his guns and said it was insinuated to him that his course is not useful. There is no discrimination against anyone in our university!, said vice chancellor Prof Ramakrishna Ramaswamy, reacting to the allegation made by Prof...
09:05 AM, Jan 18, 2012
HYDERABAD: The University of Hyderabad in a sudden move has proposed to increase hostel fees paid by students by about 250 per cent. The budget proposed at the 67th Academic Council meeting on Wednesday included proposals for the increase in order to mobilise more internal resources. The move comes after a letter from the University Grants Commission dated October 5, 2011 addressed to the UoH registrar expressed its inconvenience to...
08:52 AM, Nov 17, 2011
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