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By K. Ramachandran
CHENNAI, NOV. 23 . The University of Madras plans to rope in more industrial houses and employers to absorb its graduates. Even while evolving more job-oriented academic programmes in addition to the existing 54 certificate courses, its academic planners want to expand the role of the placement cell, as also the cell dedicated to institute-industry coordination activities. Vice-Chancellor, S.P. Thyagarajan, says: "A placement office is now available for MBA and MCA students. For the science departments, the university-industry-community interaction cell is working to promote employment. The plan will hopefully cover all sections of students from the university." The University is also talking to different sets of employers, he adds. Highlighting academic activities that aim at improving employability of the students, Dr. Thyagarajan says that in the past year or so, every department's Board of Studies has been revamped to include industry experts. The revamp started six months ago, academics from the University say. Fifty per cent of the board members can be from industry, professional agencies, non-governmental agencies or institutions of public importance (for example, the stock exchange). Dr. Thyagarajan says that on Monday morning, a revamped Board of the Economics Department met to decide a proposed course in B.A. Business Economics to be launched next year. The university also has a scheme to have special invitees to the board meetings in a bid to improve syllabus content.
More electives
The change is already having an impact, the Vice-Chancellor says. The courses are being reoriented to meet industry needs. "Our placement record in the MBA department is definitely much better now," he adds. Based on industry feedback (which the department gets during placement season), the Department of Management studies is planning to introduce more electives in areas such as human resources and quality management. Dr. Thyagarajan says more needs to be done. "That is why we want to talk to more employers. The postgraduate students can also take up any of the 54 certificate courses. My aim is to have at least 100 certificate and employment-oriented courses for the next academic year. And this will be across courses... in that a postgraduate student (using the choice-based credit system) can opt for a certificate course in any other branch to improve his or her job prospects," he adds.
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