Association of Indian Universities
Association
of Indian Universities
The Association of Indian universities (AIU) is a
registered society under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 with membership
of Indian Universities. It provides a forum for administrators and academicians
of member universities to exchange views and discuss matters of common concern.
It acts as a bureau of information exchange in higher education and brings out
a number of useful publications, including the “Universities Handbook”,
research papers and a weekly journal titled “University News”.
The present membership of the Association is 527
including seven Associate Members viz. Kathmandu University, Kathmandu, Nepal,
Mauritius University, Mauritius, University of Technology, Mauritius, Royal
University of Bhutan, Thimpu, Open University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia, Middle East University, UAE, and Semey State Medical University,
Semey, Kazakhstan.
The Association is substantially financed from the
annual subscription of the member universities. The Government of India,
Ministry of Education provides grants for meeting a part of the maintenance and
development expenditure, including research studies, workshops, training
programmes for university administrators, orientation programmes and creation
of Data Bank of Global(of which Universities( the preliminary document Access
to Global Universities is completed). AIU has Evaluation Division, Students
Information Service Division, and Publication Sales Division, Sports Division
to sponsor Inter-University Tournaments and World University Games:2007, Youth
Affairs Division, Library and Documentation Division, Finance Division,
Administration Division, Computer Division and Meeting Division.
The AIU is also empowered to grant Associate
Membership to universities of the neighbouring countries of India.
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