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Wednesday, May 21, 2003

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Adding a worthy cause to learning

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI MAY 20. The Capital's first university for professional courses is all set to introduce some "socially relevant'' options for students from the coming academic session.

Of the six new degree courses that Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University will be introducing this year, at least two are targeted at helping the disabled community.

To be supported by the Ministry of Social Welfare, both the Bachelor of Rehabilitation Therapy and Bachelor of Audio and Speech Processing will aim at training youngsters to help people with special needs.

To be spread over a period of four years, an additional six months have been earmarked for practical training or internship of students. "These courses were earlier available only in diplomas that was offered by a Government institutes. The degree will not just prepare students well but also given a new option to those interested in doing something for society,'' says the university Vice-Chancellor, K.K. Aggarwal.

The first such degree course to be offered by any Indian university, it will, however, have very limited seats, with only 20 students being taken for both the courses. While Rehabilitation Therapy is meant to train students so they can help reconstruct the lives of the disabled, the second course will train them to teach the deaf and dumb about sign languages. This course will be open only for science students.

Some of the other courses that will be introduced include Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Medical Lab Technology and Physiotherapy. While the first two are likely to be only the first of the medical courses that the university is planning to introduce, with some more MBBS colleges affiliated to it likely to be cleared very soon too.

While the admission tests for Medical Technology and Physiotherapy have been already held, the last dates for the other courses can be found on the university's official website http://ipu.ac.in.

The schedule for admission and counselling for the common entrance test of BBA will be announced on May 26, and for hotel management on May 29. The information bulletin for admission to the newly introduced week-end programme of M.Tech (IT) and M.Tech (CSE) will be available from May 27 The admissions will be based on marks and experience.

The university has also introduced a course in legal awareness recently for its faculty and staff.

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