Lucknow University Hosts Students of Sydney University for Sustainable Development Course
The University of Lucknow will host students from Western Sydney University for an inter-disciplinary two-week course aiming at sustainable development issues that will focus on analyzing native communities, their lifestyle along with population, health, water and climatic change of India.
Western Sydney University’s (WSU) academicians and graduates are currently visiting the University of Lucknow (LU) in order to participate in a course that deals with sustainable development. Centre for Environmental Education (CEE) - LU is hosting this two-week duration course. The batch from the WSU includes a total of 20 students of different streams along with four senior-level academicians.
WSU and LU are organising this exchange programme to initiate Sustainable Development activities based on Education. The programme is an outcome of the universities’ partnership under the Regional Centres of Expertise.
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The two weeks programme is being coordinated at the LU’s ONGC building and the course has been scheduled to end on 7th December 2018. LU’s Institute for Wildlife Sciences has been assigned the responsibility to coordinate the course on Sustainable Development Issues.
The course has been segregated into two sessions. The first session of the course will take place at Lucknow University with 40 students. The second section of the programme will include a visit to the Suhelwa and Katerniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary’s restricted and protected locations. The second session of the course will help students to understand the native communities and their rural lifestyle.
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LU’s Zoology Department Professor, Amita Kanaujia said that the main aim of this interdisciplinary programme is to make learners aware of the concerns affecting the sustainability of development focused mainly on the northern part of India.
She also defined the objective of the two weeks programme as an interpretation of the views on sustainability with the social and ecological aspects with context to analyze the denominations of India including population, health, water and climatic change.