Ø A ‘Visitorial Committee’ has been set up by the
Union Human Resource Development Ministry under the convenorship of former
Indian Institute of Science Director Goverdhan Mehta to
look into the functioning of Indira Gandhi National Open University from 2006.
The committee will look into the massive expansion that was undertaken during
the Vice-Chancellorship of V.N. Rajasekharan Pillai and the subsequent closure
of a large number of courses during the current regime of M. Aslam.
Ø Twenty five years after it was started, the National Museum Institute —
India’s premier school for museology, conservation and art — has received funds
to build a campus. The institute, currently housed at the National Museum on
Janpath, was started in 1989 to train museum professionals and as a centre for
research on art and cultural heritage. While three acres were acquired for the
campus in Noida’s Institutional Area in Sector 62 back in 2002, the project
remained on the anvil for more than a decade. Vice-Chancellor Venu Vasudevan explained
that the Central Public Works Department’s design and estimates was a key
factor that led to the approval.
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