diff --git a/_posts/2015-02-09-student-exchange-program.md b/_posts/2015-02-09-student-exchange-program.md index 6c9702c..d55cf9e 100644 --- a/_posts/2015-02-09-student-exchange-program.md +++ b/_posts/2015-02-09-student-exchange-program.md @@ -9,12 +9,13 @@ excerpt: WONA brings you the coverage of the opportunities at your disposal, in A eurotrip is the dream of every IITian. The notion of uploading your n-gigabytes of pictures on social media at exotic locations that you once saw on Discovery Channel dominates almost all the desires of any random, yoga-class attending student of IITR. What if we told you that there exists a process by which you can achieve the aforementioned without dropping those infinite mails to random Professors of foreign land, boasting about your dedication and sincerity to their respective fields of interest? What if we told you that you could get a Student Exchange to a foreign university based in a european destination like Sweden or Germany? Expecting an affirmation to some of the posed questions from almost every student of the institute, __WONA__ brings you the coverage of the opportunities at your disposal, in an interview with Mrs. Purnima Govind, the Executive Assistant at the office of Dean of Alumni Affairs. -__WONA__: Can you tell us how does the student exchange policy work? +__WONA__: Can you tell us how does the student exchange policy work?
__EA__: Though it’s an elaborate inter-collegiate programme, the epitome would be the swap of students between two institutes. This gives the student an opportunity to spend an entire semester in another institute, helping them gain international exposure and enhance their career prospects. Students are required to pay their regular institutional fee of the parent college while the residential and dining costs in the foreign land are to be borne separately. -__WONA__: How are the student graded in the semester they have a student exchange? __EA__: The credits of that particular semester of the host college are transferred to this institute. However the grades of this semester are not taken into account in the calculation of the final CGPA on graduation. Students ought to ensure that they have gained all the credits specified for the undergraduate or post-graduate programme. +__WONA__: How are the student graded in the semester they have a student exchange?
+__EA__: The credits of that particular semester of the host college are transferred to this institute. However the grades of this semester are not taken into account in the calculation of the final CGPA on graduation. Students ought to ensure that they have gained all the credits specified for the undergraduate or post-graduate programme. -__WONA__: What is the procedure to get a student exchange in our college? __EA__: If you visit our website, __iitr.ac.in -> Academics -> Institutional Agreements__. You will find the exhaustive list of all the institutes with whom we have a Memorandum of Agreement (MOU) signed. A Student Exchange Agreement is prerequisite for a student exchange to happen. At the moment we have only 6 such agreements. These institutes give out advertisements specifying the date for the applications to be filed. The application needs to be downloaded from their website, duly filled and submitted to the Dean of alumni affairs and international relations. All the correspondence happens through this office. Of course, you have to apply a semester prior to the semester in which the exchange commences. The deadlines for the applications can be found on the website of each college and they generally fall somewhere in April for the Autumn semester and October for the Spring semester. +__WONA__: What is the procedure to get a student exchange in our college?
__EA__: If you visit our website, __iitr.ac.in -> Academics -> Institutional Agreements__. You will find the exhaustive list of all the institutes with whom we have a Memorandum of Agreement (MOU) signed. A Student Exchange Agreement is prerequisite for a student exchange to happen. At the moment we have only 6 such agreements. These institutes give out advertisements specifying the date for the applications to be filed. The application needs to be downloaded from their website, duly filled and submitted to the Dean of alumni affairs and international relations. All the correspondence happens through this office. Of course, you have to apply a semester prior to the semester in which the exchange commences. The deadlines for the applications can be found on the website of each college and they generally fall somewhere in April for the Autumn semester and October for the Spring semester. __WONA__: What all is required to get the student exchange? __EA__: First and the most essential step is that you need to match the courses of the semester with the help of the departmental coordinator. The courses which are present in the course curriculum of IITR but not in that of the host college have to be opted for in the subsequent semester by the candidate. You also need the approval and the letter of recommendation by the HOD and also an approval from Dean of Academics.