2 Indian candidates win Oxford University Student Union election
2 Indian candidates win Oxford University Student Union election
Anvee Bhutani, an Indian-origin Human Sciences, student from Magdalen College at the University of Oxford won the new president-elect of the Oxford Student Union (SU), while Devika won the vice-president role.
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UPDATED: May 22, 2021 00:15 IST
Anvee Bhutani, an Indian-origin Human Sciences student from Magdalen College at the University of Oxford, has pledged to fight for students’ rights in her role as the new president-elect of the Oxford Student Union (SU).
Anvee Bhutani, who was declared the winner at the end of a closely fought byelection at the Oxford SU on Thursday evening, said she felt humbled by the support she had received and excited about her plans for her upcoming term. She had fought on a platform of reform across key areas of access and mental health at the university and feels that is what won her the backing in a byele
Indian-origin student elected Oxford University Student s Union President in byelection
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Credit: John Robertson
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Supriya Chaudhuri (FOR)
Shortly before Pratap Bhanu Mehta’s widely publicised resignation from Ashoka University made academic freedom the subject of national debate, another event received less attention. This was the refusal of Errol D’Souza, director of IIM Ahmedabad, to allow the Ministry of Education (MoE) to review a PhD thesis approved by his institute.
A Rajya Sabha MP had objected to the thesis’s description of the BJP. The MoE demanded a copy of the thesis last year, but D’Souza replied that a thesis passed by a duly-constituted academic board could not be judged by the ministry. The incident was flagged by the MoE to claim greater say in the governance of IIMs; the Law ministry dismissed the claim as inconsistent with the provisions of the IIM Act.
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