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Madurai
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MADURAI, SEPT.5. The Madurai Kamaraj University will create a consortium to enhance the quality of education in rural colleges, the Vice-Chancellor, P.K. Ponnuswamy, said on Friday. Addressing a function got up by the Department of Youth Welfare to distribute the `best college' award, he said the university was concerned about the facilities in rural colleges, so it would consider setting up the consortium to help rural colleges equip themselves better. The consortium would select colleges and devise schemes that could improve the environment in these colleges. It would also discuss the possibility of introducing additional programmes. The university, he said, would also conduct a national level meeting of rural colleges and discuss ways to improve facilities. He expressed concern over the impact of experimental science on students. The output going into experimental science was disappointing. Science teaching should be strengthened and encouraged for which good experiments conducted in educational institutions should be recognised with awards. There should be a quantitative analysis of social science, he said. Fifty per cent of the UGC grants for the colleges should go for the overall development of rural colleges, he noted. Felicitating the award winners, G. Thiruvasagam, Syndicate Member, said the university, in an effort to provide more autonomy, permitted the colleges under its purview to frame their own syllabus and even reduced their financial burden by drastically cutting down the affiliation fees for new courses. He appealed to the colleges to launch job-oriented courses.
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