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| Wednesday, May 07, 2008
TN colleges to migrate to new system
CHENNAI: Arts and Science colleges and universities across Tamil
Nadu are set to migrate to the Choice Based Credit System (CBCS)
of study from the coming academic year. Besides, the state government
has decided to introduce on an experimental basis, the cluster
colleges system, in Chennai, Coimbatore, Madurai and Tiruchi.
Also, the grading system will replace the mark-based system
in universities in tune with global higher education standards.
The decisions, announced in the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday
by higher education minister K Ponmudy, are aimed at ensuring
student mobility and upgrading higher education to international
standards .
The CBCS would help students choose from a variety of job-oriented
elective subjects. For instance, a student of B.A History can
opt to study Tourism or Communicative English as an elective.
The government plans to instruct colleges to uniformly offer
140 credits in undergraduate courses and 90 credits in post-graduate
programmes.
Under the cluster colleges concept, the government
intends to bring about academic cooperation among a group of
colleges in the four cities to enable them share resources and
students to study a subject of his choice in any of the colleges,
which are part of the cluster. Students who are studying in
the cluster colleges can approach the other college through
EDUSAT and exchange course materials, library books and journals
in e-form. Also, students from one college can attend the classes
in another cluster college and share their experience and information.
To enhance the quality of teaching and learning in colleges,
the government has made it mandatory for all colleges to obtain
accreditation from the National Assessment and Accreditation
Council. Also, a state level Quality Assessment Council will
be formed to carry out the continuous auditing of quality of
all TN colleges.
Developing centres of excellence in universities, encouraging
more colleges to apply for autonomy, upgrading curriculum in
universities, networking of libraries in universities, mandatory
academic audit for colleges and preparing a status report on
higher education are also on the anvil .
Courtesy: Times of India
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