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| Monday, May 05, 2008
‘Compulsory Tamil’ clause in Choice-Based
Credit System goes
- Students can choose any language in Part I
- Tamil paper in Part IV will be of class VI
level
MADURAI: The State government has made changes to the proposed
Choice-Based Credit System (CBCS) in universities and colleges
following requests from certain quarters to relax the guidelines
for the benefit of students.
A high-level meeting of higher education officials held in Chennai
on Friday decided to accommodate various views and suggestions,
which include not to make Tamil language compulsory for students
(in Part 1).
Implementing the CBCS is mandatory for all universities and
colleges from 2008-09 academic year.
Official sources here told The Hindu on Sunday that the government
would send the modified proposal on the CBCS to varsities and
colleges by Tuesday and it has “adequately addressed all
concerns” with regard to autonomy of colleges, uniformity,
core subjects, credits and language papers.
“The draft guidelines are altered due to objections. Earlier,
it was mooted to make Tamil compulsory in Part 1, but that is
not the case now. Students of varsities/ colleges can choose
any language,” A. Ramasamy, Vice-Chairman, Tamil Nadu
State Council for Higher Education, said when contacted.
With regard to fears of encroaching on academic freedom of autonomous
colleges through a uniform CBCS, he said that those apprehensions
were unwarranted because the government’s emphasis now
was only on uniformity in core papers.
“The decision to agree on Tamil language issue would benefit
non-Tamil students. It is enough if they study Tamil paper in
Part IV which will be only of class VI level,” Dr. Ramasamy
said. Substantial freedom was also given to colleges to offer
job-oriented courses for arts and science students. <“We
are not insisting on common syllabus for core papers. Every
autonomous college will have freedom and the criticisms from
a few colleges in Tiruchi were unfounded and vague,” he
said.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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