Role of IT in commerce education stressed
>From our Staff Correspondent
Dibrugarh, Sept 6: The two-day UGC sponsored national seminar on Role of
Information Technology in Commerce Education, organized at Sibsagar Commerce
College concluded on September 4 . The Seminar was attended by dignitaries and
resource persons from Dibrugarh and Gauhati University. The participants from
different colleges and universities of the North-east presented all the papers.
It was resolved at the seminar that a proposal should be submitted to the UGC
and other concerned authorities for setting up an Institute of the IIT and IIM
level in upper Asom, more particularly in Sivasagar, for providing modern
education. The Director of IIT Guwahati has consented to provide a helping hand
to prepare a project in this regard. In his inaugural address, the
Vice-Chancellor of Dibrugarh University Dr Kulendu Pathak stressed the need of
developing communicative skills of the students and a good business sense. Dr
Gautam Barua, Director IIT Guwahati, in his keynote address
asserted that the teachers should be first made aware and trained about
information technology to teach the students and therefore the resource persons
from the industries should be invited to train the teachers. Computers should
be used for teaching the advance concepts to students and as a useful tool, Dr
Baruah added. Dr Sunil Saikia, Head CEDM, IIE spoke about the various aspects
of the tourism sector, which is about to emerge as the biggest industry in the
world. The Deputy commissioner of Sibsagar, NM Hussain during his brief speech
spoke about information technology and how it has changed the face of commerce
education. Earlier, in his welcome address, Kartick Chandra Dutta, principal,
Sibsagar Commerce College, informed the gathering about the new courses that
the college has introduced He also disclosed that B.Sc.I.T course would be
introduced in the college soon.
(The Sentinel,07.09.07)
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