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CU ranks first among all Indian state-run universities in QS Rankings

CU ranks first among all Indian state-run universities in QS Rankings

While CU is ranked first among all state-run universities in India, it occupies the third rank among all the universities in India.

Published: 04th November 2021 12:41 PM 

Calcutta University (Photo | Calcutta University Website)

By PTI

KOLKATA: Calcutta University has ranked on top above all state-run universities in the country in the QS Asia University Rankings 2022.

Vice-Chancellor of Calcutta University Prof Sonali Chakraborty Banerjee said on Wednesday that while CU is ranked first among all state-run universities in India, it occupies the third rank among all the universities in India - first being Delhi University and second being JNU, both of them being Central universities.

"I got the information after the ranking 2022, Released by QS Rankings on Asian Universities, was out. We have to carry on the good work in academics," she said Calcutta University is ranked 154th in Asia.

In the QS Asia University Rankings 2022, the universities are ranked across 11 parameters including academics and employer reputation, the number of staff having PhD, proportion of students from abroad.

NTR varsity employees’ JAC boycotts duties

NTR varsity employees’ JAC boycotts duties

The survival of the university will become questionable if the government doesn’t return the amount to the University.

Published: 02nd December 2021 07:59 AM |

NTR University of Health Sciences

By Express News Service

VIJAYAWADA: Intensifying their agitation against the alleged diversion of Rs 400 crore funds to Andhra Pradesh Financial Services Corporation (APFSC), the Joint Action Committee (JAC) leaders of Dr NTR University of Health Sciences boycotted their duties and participated in a protest at the university campus here on Wednesday.

JAC convener Venkata Narayana expressed his concern over the unilateral decision by vice-chancellor P Syam Prasad for diverting Rs 400 crore to APFSC, instead of developing the University on all fronts.

The V-C had no authority to divert funds and how can the government give only a meagre amount of Rs 5 crore per annum as against Rs 30 crore expenditure, including payment of salaries for the staff and other maintenance, the leaders said.

The survival of the university will become questionable if the government doesn’t return the amount to the University. Apart from that, students’ futures would also be affected, quality education and practicals could not be conducted, they added. JAC convenor also questioned who would guarantee the condition of the employees now that the salaries of contract employees would be stagnant.

Doctors protest delay in PG admissions

Doctors protest delay in PG admissions

In Chennai, resident doctors boycotted OP at Madras Medical College and Government Stanley Medical College.

Published: 02nd December 2021 06:36 AM 

Image of medical students attending class used for representation. (Photo | Vinod Kumar T, EPS)

By Express News Service

CHENNAI: Expressing solidarity with the the Federation of Resident Doctors Association, resident doctors in Tamil Nadu boycotted outpatient services on Wednesday due to delay in NEET PG-2021 admission counselling. The doctors said they will boycott non-emergency services from Thursday.

In Chennai, resident doctors boycotted OP at Madras Medical College and Government Stanley Medical College. One of the PG doctors at the Government Stanley Medical College said the delay was causing a lot of mental trauma to doctors who are waiting for the admissions. PG doctors on duty are also burdened with too much work in the absence of first year PG students.

“TN is also seeing a surge in dengue and fever cases. Apart from Covid-19, we have to deal with seasonal fevers also. If this continues, 2021 would be a zero academic year. Our protest is against the Union Government,” the doctor said. The counselling is delayed due to the case in the Supreme Court on EWS quota in All India Quota seats in PG medical admissions.

Why Make Examinations Larger-Than-Life Events?

THE SPEAKING TREE

Why Make Examinations Larger-Than-Life Events?

Pulkit Sharma

03.12.2021

It is commonplace to experience anxious thoughts, negative emotions, obsessive rituals, sleepless nights and butterflies in the stomach during examination time. Moderate levels of stress motivate us to work hard, overcome our limitations and give our best performance. However, when we are overly distressed, our worries can make us dysfunctional at the physical, emotional and behavioural levels. Consequently, an inner sense of vulnerability and hopelessness incapacitates us, stopping us from listening to the voice of reason. During this time, we may feel like a complete failure and see no hope in making an effort.

As a society which now believes firmly in competing, achieving and winning, we have erroneously turned examinations into larger-than-life events. We seem to have forgotten that an examination is just an innocuous assessment to tell us how well we have grasped a particular curriculum and where we need to improve in that specific programme. Whatever be the results of an examination, they can never change who we are and what we eventually do in our lives. Therefore, whenever we are stressed, we must remind ourselves that it is just one exam and in our long life, it is not going to be the end of the world. Life will give us many other chances to grow and evolve into a better person.

Letting go of this immense pressure, breathing out our worries and smiling freely during examinations is the right approach.

Comparing ourselves with others builds a lot of fear in our psyche and derails our progress. Rather than thinking about either defeating others or getting defeated by them, we should drop this unhealthy thought process and make self-perfection our long-term goal. Let us always strive to improve ourselves, working hard on overcoming our weaknesses and realising our inherent potential.

Give up smaller, mundane goals to pursue a higher ideal is the key. We can create a broad vision by visualising a better self imagining a healthy body, a strong mind, a happier self, harmonious relationships and a meaningful life. Reminding ourselves of this vision and working on it consistently will take us closer to the transcendent point of psychic evolution.

At a larger level, we also need to introspect and reform our education system. We seem to be teaching children almost everything apart from who they are, what the purpose of their birth is, how they can fulfil it, and how they can know themselves better. These questions are generally dismissed as being too esoteric for young minds and it is implied that such concerns fall outside the purview of modern education systems. But without such opportunities for inner reflection and deeper self-knowledge, our children end up wasting their energies in trivial pursuits and worrying about pointless things. Later in life, when some of them realise this, it is too difficult for them to abandon flawed assumptions and start afresh.

We need our children to be in a perpetual state of fulfilment, growth, tranquillity and joy regardless of the ups and downs of their life. Therefore, let us think of ways to empower them so that they awaken from their present state of ignorance and pursue the fullness inherent within them.

The writer is a clinical psychologist in Puducherry

Expensive tests at airport

Expensive tests at airport

02/12/2021

As stricter COVID-19 testing norms at airports kicked in from Wednesday, passengers from “at-risk” countries had to brace for massive queues, long waiting time for test results and missed connecting flights.

Their only way out was to pay for the expensive Rapid PCR test that cost up to ₹4,500 — nearly nine times the regular test.