aurangabad the academic staff college of dr babasaheb ambedkar marathwada university bamu has chalked out various programmes for the upcoming academic year however of the 31 courses that the college has decided to undertake 29 were successfully held while the rest could not be conducted because of low response the college director arun kharat said that refresher courses for music drama and the performing arts along with the pali buddhism sanskrit and urdu language orientation courses did not receive sufficient number of participants from across the country each course requires participation from at least 18 students although the intake capacity is 50 to 60 respectively for the refresher courses and orientation courses but as few applications were received these courses were not held kharat said addressing a press conference at the college kharat said that this year 30 courses will be held by the college and will start from june 6 the college also plans to conduct 14 refresher courses six orientation courses four special as well as four orientation courses apart from this the college will also hold a course each for the principal and the academic administrator which has been approved by the university grants commission ugc the courses not only serve career advancement purposes but also update professors with recent trends and technical knowhow in their respective fields the academic and staff college is a oneofakind college in the state which conducts courses for egovernance and elearning for staff training as these techniques are increasingly used in banking cellphones email etc these skills gain more prominence and are imparted to staff and faculty members last year the college had a total of 1300 participants from across the country the college had access to expert faculty from around the world bamu also held refresher courses for 50 of its new employees recently the course content included work culture right to information rti and account codes