Vice Chancellors conference in Mysore begins

MYSORE: The two-day South Zone Vice-Chancellors’ Conference-2011 of the Association of India Universities (AIU), New Delhi, will be held at Mahatma Gandhi Auditorium, Infosys Leadership Institute (ILI), Infosys campus, Mysore from August 19.Addressing the press here on Thursday, secretary general of Association of Indian Universities Dr A D N Bajpai said that about 50 vice-chancellors from central, state, open, agricultural and deemed universities of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry are participating in the conference.He said that the conference proposes to discuss topics relating to diversity of higher educational institutions and quality concerns; features of National Council for Higher Education and Research Bill 2010; Information Resources and Knowledge Networks, among other issues.The conference will be inaugurated by J Krishna Palemar, Minister for Ecology and Environment and Science and Technology; B M Hegde, former vice-chancellor, Manipal University, and P T Chandre, president, AIU, will be present.On the second day, Jagadish Arora will speak on Information Resources and Knowledge Networks while P Prakash, Vice-Chancellor, Dr B R Ambedkar Open University, will chair the session.Matt Barney, vice-president, Infosys Technologies, will speak on Industries and Universities and Prof Ramachandran Thekkadath, Vice-Chancellor, Cochin University of Science and Technology, will chair the session.