Srikanth Srinivasan , Regional Director, NASSCOM and Vijay Bawra, 10000 startups spoke to the students about what is happening on the startup front in AP and in India on 29th April, 2016
Category: Events
AU Online Telephone Directory Launched
AU Computer Centre launched Online Telephone Directory Beta version on 26th April, 2016. The web URL : http://auvsp.edu.in/directory/index.php
It is mobile compatible and can be searched name wise, department wise, campus wise, affiliated college wise. It also has facility to update by the respective teacher, or HOD office or CAO office.
Andhra University Celebrates its 91st Foundation Day
Andhra University Celebrated its 91st Foundation Day at YVS Murthy auditorium on 26th April, 2016. Honourable VC, Registrar, Principals and EC members were on stage.
Students from Vempati China Satyam Dance Academy performed Tillana and marked the start of the programme.
Prof Koneru Rama Krishna Rao, former Vice Chancellor, delivered a thought provoking message. The following are the excerpts from his message:
Every position, dean, director, Principals, Registrar, VC should be made accountable.. Every teacher must be made accountable. He said only 1/3 rd of teacher’s time is devoted to teaching, all the remaining time focus should be made on research. He said, research doesn’t mean publishing over night in paid journals or publishing in self printed journals. It should be meaningful and useful while bringing reputation to the University.
He also emphasized on the need for reservation with financial support for the benefit of the weaker sections. But he opined that class of academic unequals is posing a severe problem to the academic and research quality . Every one who leaves the campus should be academically equal. And the only way is to take up remedial classes and give them every support to excel. And tutorials will be required and there is a need for mentor for every student. A mentor should take up 10-15 students and keep watching his progress in all perspectives.
Government funding to these remedial classes must be made. Every average student should become brighter. Already bright student should be given a proper direction. He said he was more happy with AU than when he worked for universities in Tennessee, North Carolina.
More over he expressed the opinion that there is little autonomy for the universities during recruitments which is having an adverse impact on the quality. While welcoming the statements made by the honourable CM that he would not compromise on quality while appointing the heads of the institutions, he said if that is done, no soon the universities will be heading in the right direction.
He said he eagerly wants to see the changes in the university by 100 th foundation day. He would come walking on stage to see AU regain its past glory and positioned in top 50 in the world.
Retired employees who completed 80 years were felicitated.
AU High School gets Internet
I am very happy and proud to say, we could provide high speed Internet to Andhra University High school today. Last month, during the AP Fibre Grid Launch, we were inspired with the online class room concept. I had decided then, that we would give the AU School kids the same Internet facility that AU students were having before the start of the academic year. And we could do it in one month.
The school correspondent, Prof Prasad Rao, Retd Professor of AU who is voluntarily looking after the school activities chaired the session. He spoke about the companies that supported the construction of the seminar hall under CSR.
Prof V. Uma Maheswara Rao, Registrar, Andhra University was the Chief Guest. He inaugurated the Mobile Lab facility donated by Mr Bala Bhaskar. Mobile Lab has both physics and Lab experiment kits in a compact enclosure and is worth Rs 80,000/-
Later I got the privilege to launch the Internet facility. The facility was extended to office of the school in addition to the computer Lab.
This would help our school to attend online program of Grameena Vidya program launched by AP Govt. It was using offline facility as of now.
Ms Pratyusha , last year passed out X class student who got 10/10 was given scholarship.
Master Shanmitra who passed out inter this year and was a student of this school till X was mentioned specially for obtaining 952 out of 1000 in the intermediate exams.
The students who won caroms National Championship were also specially mentioned.
I came out of the hall with satisfaction and a sense of pride for conceiving this idea and could realize it 🙂
PG MED Web Counselling Certificate Verification
Happy to hold PG MED Web Counselling Certificate Verification from 22nd April, 2016 to 24th April, 2016
Incharge Vice Chancellor and Registrar of AU handed over the verification orders to 2nd, 3rd and 5th rank holders of PG Medical Entrance.
Congratulations to all those who qualified the exam.
Attended Exordia’16 conducted by IIMV
I am happy I attended Exordia’16 conducted by IIMV at YVS Murthy auditorium on 15th, April, 2016.
I heard it was an event planned by Ms Janaki and her students just within one week. But it was a very well planned event.
The speakers who shared their experiences were the best chosen. I though I should put the points I picked up on record and hence this post.
The first speaker was Suresh Bhagavatula from IIMB NSRCEL who shared interesting thoughts on entrepreneurship and startups. Mr Naga, a venture capitalist spoke about the mindsets of startups.
Wireless Attacks – an overview
Gave a talk on ” Wireless Attacks-an overview” for the workshop on Information Security and its Tools on 30th March, 2016
I have covered:
- Wireless Technologies
- Wireless attacks
- Investigating wireless attacks
- Features of good forensic tools
- Wireless forensics tools
Navigating eduKPI : A workshop sponsored by RUSA
Navigating eduKPI: A workshop sponsored by RUSA was conducted by Andhra University in Platinum Jubilee Hall from 9 AM to 5.30 PM on March 19, 2016
Prof. M. Shameem was the convener and I was the co-convener.
Prof. P Narasimha Rao, Vice Chairman, APSCHE, Sri Srikanthanatha Reddy, Joint Secretary, AP Higher Education graced the proceedings.
Prof Narasimha Rao explained why KPI’s are important and Sri Reddy gave information on RUSA and how higher education is using it for development of higher education.
I gave a talk on World University Rankings- AU case study. Sri Vijay Reddy, Elsevier-Scopus Presented a talk on how Scopus tool can be used and how Scival is useful for research. Sri Akshay Jain, EDB, AP State Government has presented a talk on World University Rankings- Inside Out.
Prof Shameem presented an overview of why the workshop was conducted.
The dais of Navigating eduKPI: from left: Prof V.Valli Kumari, Prof. U. Shameem, Prof. E.A Narayana, Prof P. Narasimha Rao, Prof. V. Umamaheswara Rao, Sri Srikantha Natha Reddy
Participants from 9 universities:Andhra University, Sri Venkateswara University, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Yogi Vemana University, Sri Padamavathi mahila University, JNTU Ananthpur, B.R Ambedkar University, Vikam Simhapuri University, Dravidian University
Thanks to all my scholars for volunteering and making this event happen.
Center for Open Innovation launched
Center for Open Innovation : With focus on Smart Cities and entrepreneurship
Center for Open Innovation is launched at AU Campus by Hon’ble CM Sri Chandrababu Naidu on 10th January, 2016.
Garwood Centre for Corporate Innovation, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkley and the proposed Centre of Open Innovation, Andhra University would provide an ecosystem for collaborating with knowledge flows globally.
Digital India Week Part 3: Online Collaborative Class Room
