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| Monday, April 07, 2008
Choice Based Credit system to be announced on April 25
MADURAI: The Government will make a formal announcement on the
introduction of Choice Based Credit System in all arts and science
colleges in the Assembly on April 25.
A final round of meeting with the principals of all autonomous
colleges will be held in Chennai on April 22. Thereafter, Minister
for Higher Education K. Ponmudy will submit details of the system,
which will become mandatory from 2008-09.
Official sources in the Collegiate Education Department here
told The Hindu on Sunday that colleges could issue admission
prospectus for the coming academic year after the announcement.
After several rounds of meetings with academics, faculty,
students and teachers’ unions, higher education authorities
have made necessary changes to the system and have instructed
the Regional Joint Directors of Collegiate Education to prepare
faculty and students for it .
A. Ramasamy, Vice-Chairman, Tamil Nadu State Council for Higher
Education, said the meeting with the principals of autonomous
colleges would help to iron out variations in assessment marks
and make the implementation of the system uniform. The Government
was particular that a student must have an option for easy
mobility between universities.
V. Swaminathan, Regional Joint Director of Collegiate Education,
said Bharathidasan University and the University of Madras
were preparing syllabus for some electives. The instruction
was that “once the Minister makes an announcement in
the Assembly, all colleges must act swiftly for implementation,”
he said.
Officials said the Council had met nearly 300 students of
government and private colleges to seek their views.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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