For our 4th issue (Sept. 10, 2005 issue) we received responses from our valuable readers.
The readers’ responses are as follows:
I wish good luck and salute the team of ITBHU chronicles team for their effort
Amit Pandey, (Sept. 11)
Mining 2003
Nice to see the good work done by ITans is now captured and shared across.
Keep it up.
I would suggest following things-
a. Involve some external agencies that can draft these materials so that the spelling errors and other small errors can be minimized and the get up is improved. This can be done for one issue and on subsequent issues; the basic form can be retained.
b. Publish a PDF version of the material.
Regards
Nilesh Kumar (Sept. 12)
Tata Steel
Mining 1996
The article on workshops is good and an open fact known to all the students and administrative body. This article brings me to think about another question. Are workshops essential for all the streams of engineering? As of speaking of Computer Science, it seems completely irrelevant to learn about carpentry skills. Carpentry skills are useful in daily life, but definitely not necessary for learning concepts of computer science. Similar are other workshops. During my graduate study in US, i was a Teaching assistant for undergraduate computer science courses and here the undergrad students don't have these workshops in syllabus.
Cutting long story short, it is necessary for us to modify our curriculum, so that students do not spend their time in doing things, which they will not need after getting grades.
Returning back to fund issue, if for maintenance of workshops require funds then alumni can start a separate project for workshop renovations and i am sure it will not be tough to arrange something.
With regards
Anup Mayank (Sept. 12)
CSE 02
There seems to be a serious error in the news item " Faculty openings in BHU". It is written that only Professor and Reader positions have been advertised. The fact is that Lecturer positions have also been advertised in almost all Departments of IT. The BHU Advt. has been put up in such a lousy format that one has to scroll till infinity to the right to locate the Lecturers' positions. Please go through the Ad on the BHU site once again and make corrections immediately.
Dr. Ashim K. Mukherjee
Department of Applied Chemistry
IT-BHU
Reply by The Chronicle Team:
Dear Dr. Mukherjee:
Thanks for your email. We shall correct the news about faculty openings in the next chronicle issue.
We will now have 24 to 48 hrs cool-down time between posting of articles online and making announcement about it. During this period, chronicle team members will review the articles already posted for any typos, corrections or omissions.
We appreciate your effort to bring the error to our attention.
With regards,
Chronicle team,