Thursday, May 19, 2016

AU moves forward with its distance education programme

ALLAHABAD: To assist the director of the proposed postgraduate courses through distance education, the authorities of Allahabad University have appointed four faculty members of AU as deputy directors of the newly set up Directorate of Distance Education (DDE). PG courses at AU via distance education would be offered from 2016-17 session.



For the task, AU vice-chancellor RL Hangloo has appointed four deputy directors of DDE including Prof AR Siddiqui (Geography), Jai Shankar Singh (Law), Suneet Dwivedi (KBCAOS or K Banerjee Centre of Atmospheric and Ocean Studies) and RK Singh (Commerce). The VC has already appointed Prof Dhananjay Yadav of education department as director of DDE.


Acting registrar of AU Sanjay Upadhyay informed that the committees have been constituted along with appointment of deputy directors for the smooth functioning of the day-to-day activities of AU DDE.


The DDE advisory committee has the AU Vice Chancellor as chairman with the other 10 members being RK Singh, Professor-in-charge (Academics), AC Pandey, Director, IIDS and ICT Cell, head, Education department, Pratibha Upadhyaya, PK Sahoo (Education), RK Chaubey (Law), AK Malviya (Commerce), SP Gupta, UPRTOU, Allahabad as external member, Anil Shukla, Education department, Lucknow University as external member and director, DDE, AU.


The academic programme committee will again have director, DDE, AU as chairman, all deputy directors as well as heads of the concerned subject area as members while the DDE's unit purchase committee will have director, DDE, AU as chairman with Akanksha Singh (Education). Likewise the verification cum technical committee of DDE will have Suneet Dwivedi and Shailendra Rai (both of KBCAOS), Saroj Yadav (education) and Noorul Hoda, AR (accounts) as members.

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