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Director, IIT Guwahati visited USTM
Prof. (Dr) Gautam Biswas, Director, IIT- Guwahati have visited the University
campus on 2nd August, 2014. During an interaction with the students, Prof Biswas
said “all over the world higher education is rapidly changing; I want the
students to see the societal needs as they will work for the society one day. We
today need to brainstorm the strategies of learning of higher education at
University level. Humanities and interdisciplinary subjects like biodiversity,
zoology, anthropology, pharmacology, unique hydrology etc should be introduced
as subjects for societal information in higher education”. Instead of becoming
greedy as jobseekers, students must act as an innovator, social scientist and
entrepreneur. They must be more focused on innovation and research rather than
concentrating on their own career so that they can ultimately contribute for the
cause of the nation to make India one of the leading developed countries. He
made a presentation titled “Changes in Higher Education: An Introduction of
Research to Meet up Societal Need”.
After the interaction Prof Biswas visited different departments and academic
Blocks of the University and also interacted with the faculty members. He took
keen interest in the activities and research initiatives undertaken by the
department of Biological Sciences. He was happy to see the Library facilities
and other infrastructure that is presently being developed in this nascent
University.
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