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| Monday, October 08, 2007
Bharathidasan varsity to review programmes
Skill-based courses to be integrated into the curriculum
- Centres of excellence to be set up
- Technical Tamil resources to be developed
Trichy: All academic programmes offered in Bharathidasan University
and through affiliated colleges will be reviewed. Skill-based
courses and training will be integrated into the curriculum
to make students employable immediately after graduation, Vice-Chancellor
M. Ponnavaikko said on Saturday.
The Choice-Based Credit System will be customised for the purpose,
he said, addressing a meeting of the Senate for the first time
after his assumption of office three months ago.
Presenting his vision, the Vice-Chancellor said the university
would consolidate its research activities to set up centres
of excellence in innovative areas such as Life Sciences, Nanotechnology,
High Performance Computing and Geosciences (including Remote
Sensing, GIS and GPS). in conformity with the University Grants
Commission’s goal to develop universities with potential
for excellence.
Dr. Ponnavaikko promised to create on the university premises
a residential complex that would fulfil all requirements of
the faculty to accelerate research since they could spend more
time in the laboratories. A resource centre would be created
and a committee comprising retired researchers of high standing
would be constituted. Affiliated colleges could utilise their
expertise and invite them to deliver lectures and guide research.
As in leading universities across the world, a Lab for Innovation
(Incubation Centres) would be created with facilities for creative
students to make original contribution and inventions.
Technical Tamil resources would be developed to initiate students
with Tamil as mother tongue into creative research. Contents
of technical journals will find a place in the proposed Bharathidasan
University Journal of Science and Technology, he said, inviting
faculty of university and affiliated colleges to contribute
research journals in English and Tamil. Journals contributed
only in English would be translated.
The university would improve upon the system of e-governance,
he said, assuring creation of a database that would encompass
data regarding administration, finance, schools and departments,
affiliated colleges, staff and students, and provide access
in a secured environment.
To bring underprivileged students into the ambit of higher education,
the university would make an assessment on opening colleges
in areas of need in the seven jurisdictional districts.
Commending the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Career Development
for offering programmes on life skills that addressed the livelihood
of school drop-outs and rural women, he said the varsity would
work towards creating internet facilities in villages in association
with the National Institute of Technology-Tiruchi, under the
aegis of Bharathidasan PURA (Provision of Urban Amenities in
Rural Areas), the pet project of the former President, A.P.J.
Abdul Kalam.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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