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SEPTEMBER 2014
Asian Institute of Technology
SEPTEMBER 2014
New students begin their journey at AIT,
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welcomed at August Orientation
ddressing over four-hundred newly enrolled postgraduate students at the Orientation on August 8, Prof. S. Kumar, Vice President for Academic Affairs, welcomed the August 2014 Semester intake with a quick lesson in numbers that summed up their overall class. “You represent the successful 16 per cent of all applicants to AIT who were accepted,” he said, adding that fifty accepted students, or one in eight, ranked in the top one per
cent of their previous class and one hundred cracked the top five per cent. Speaking on behalf of AIT President Worsak KanokNukulchai, the vice president informed that the newest batch of students represented 34 countries. Students came from every continent except South America and Antarctica, he said. See photo gallery on p.5 >>>
INS I DE I S S UE . . . Recent News / Happenings at AIT................................................. 2, Seminars / Lectures.......................................................................3
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