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  • JNTU, Synopsis to launch new software design programme.

    Hyderabad: Synopsys, the US-headquartered world leader in software designing, and Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU) in Hyderabad on Friday signed an agreement to establish microelectronics programme at the JNTU.

    The programme is aimed at training local talent and providing highly skilled specialists that can address the complex design requirements of semiconductor industry companies, an official said.

    The plan is for the newly established bachelors and masters programmes in JNTU-Hyderabad to provide skill development opportunities to more than 300,000 students every year.

    JNTU-Hyderabad is the largest nodal university in India with more than 300 affiliated colleges.

    Under the programme, Synopsys will give the university students access to the company’s digital and embedded electronic design automation (EDA) software as part of its worldwide university programme.

    JNTU-Hyderabad will use the instructional services from Seer Akademi, a curriculum partner and member of the Synopsys University Programme, to effectively administer the curriculum and to ensure effective use.

    “The huge promise that India holds for the growth of the high tech electronics systems industry depends to a large extent on the availability of qualified, industry-ready, engineers,” said Doctor Pradip Dutta, corporate vice president and managing director at Synopsys India.

    “JNTU-Hyderabad is pleased to receive this unique honour,” said Vice-Chancellor D. Narasimha Reddy. “JNTU-Hyderabad’s collaboration with Synopsys and Seer Akademi will result in a new generation of highly skilled industry ready graduates and professors” he added.

  • ‘Tying monitors to Indian students unwarranted’.

    HYDERABAD: It took the tying of radio trackers — described by critics as cattle tags — to the ankles of Indian students enrolled at Tri-Valley University (TVU) in California for the Indian government to spring to their defence, four days after US federal investigators found that it was a sham university engaged in immigration fraud.

    Several Indian students detained this week for questioning as part of the investigation of TVU were released but made to wear the tracking devices, according to students Express spoke to on the phone.

    The Ministry of External Affairs reacted sharply, describing this treatment of the students “unwarranted.” A statement released by the ministry said it was “seriously concerned” about the impact of the US federal action and demanded removal of the trackers.

    “We have conveyed to the US authorities that the students, most of whom are victims themselves, must be treated fairly and reasonably and that the use of monitors on students is unwarranted,” it said.

    Some 1550 Indian students have been left in an indeterminate status after a US Immigration and Customs Enformcement (ICE) found the university, located at Pleasanton in the suburbs of San Francisco, to be engaged in immigration fraud.

    Many of them are from Andhra Pradesh. They are said to have paid about $2,700 dollars per semester, having raised the money from loans taken at home.

    In Pleasanton, TVU founder Susan Su attempted to pass the blame to the students.

    She told a local TV channel that the university didn’t force anyone to sign up. However, students Express spoke to said the university operates through agents working in Andhra Pradesh.

    The MEA statement tried to put the onus of the students’ future on the US. The ministry said a majority of the Indian students had taken transfers to Tri-Valley from other US universities.

    Approximately 100 of them had obtained visas from the US mission in India, and a number of students had enrolled in the university after taking the required authorization, it said.

    “The students should be given ample opportunity to clarify their position and present their case and those who wish to return to India should be allowed to do so voluntarily,” MEA said.

    “And those students who have not violated any visa or immigration laws should be given an opportunity to adjust their status and, those who are eligible to seek transfer to other universities should be given adequate opportunity and time to do so.”

    Source : Indian Express

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