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| Thursday, November 29, 2007
Use common scientific terms: former V-C
Says this will enable students to grasp subject easily
A MOMENT TO CHERISH: Governor and Thiruvalluvar University
Chancellor Surjit Singh Barnala presenting the degree certificate
to a student at the convocation of the university in Vellore
on Wednesday. K. Ponmudy, Higher Education Minister and University
Pro-Chancellor, is in the picture.
VELLORE: Common scientific technical terms should be used in
all languages, including Tamil, so that science could be easily
understood by the students and the public, V.P. Narayanan, former
Vice-Chancellor of Madras Medical College and Research Institute
, said here on Wednesday.
He was delivering the convocation address at the 3rd annual
convocation of Thiruvalluvar University at Christian Medical
College.
Dr. Narayanan called upon science educationists to use the common
technical terms. “Common scientific terms alone will facilitate
easy understanding of the subject. This is similar to the way
the Tamils settled in the United States teach Tamil to their
children through transliteration, wherein sound gains more importance
than the written word,” he said.
Governor and Chancellor of Thiruvalluvar University Surjit Singh
Barnala presided over the convocation and distributed medals,
prizes and certificates to candidates.
Pledge administered
He also administered the pledge to the candidates. Eighty-eight
persons received their degrees in person, while 19,018 received
the degrees in absentia.
Minister for Higher Education and Pro-Chancellor of Thiruvalluvar
University K. Ponmudy said the number of students in government
arts and science colleges in the State had gone up from 60,000
to one lakh after the introduction of two shifts in the colleges.
Seven new government arts and science colleges have been started
by the State government in the last one year. While the government
has taken steps for the quantitative improvement of higher education
by starting more colleges and increasing the number of seats
in the colleges, it has also taken steps for qualitative improvement
by appointing 975 lecturers.
Another 1,100 lecturers are to be appointed soon.
The government has decided to start 20 government engineering
colleges during the current academic year to provide access
to engineering education to the aspirants from poor families,
he said. Vice-Chancellor of Thiruvalluvar University L. Kannan
welcomed the gathering and read out the annual report for 2006-2007.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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