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Improve skills to meet job requirements: VC

By Our Staff Reporter

TIRUCHI, DEC.21. Methodology of knowledge application gained in higher education, rather than subject content, will stand students in good stead in adapting themselves to the job they take up after their graduation, according to the Vice-Chancellor of Bharathidasan University, C. Thangamuthu.

Conferring degrees on students of Srimad Andavan Arts and Science College here on Monday, the Vice-Chancellor said higher education was an assurance factor for government jobs decades ago, but now it was only a screening hypothesis to realise efficiency.

The students should learn to improve their efficiency and skills as per the requirement of the jobs they take up.

The job market scenario in the knowledge era, he said, was a blessing in disguise for a section of the students who considered challenges as opportunities. Students must realise that a chunk of successful businessmen and industrialists in the country had a humble beginning and established themselves with fortitude and hard work.

The high esteem with which those involved in business and agriculture were being held now by the society was a welcome trend, he said, noting that clerical jobs have ceased to be the logical end of education.

Dr. Thangamuthu said the concept of Business Process Outsourcing offered vast scope for the country to make economic strides in order to emphasise that to tap the opportunities, one must have self-confidence. Advising the students to be rational in outlook, he said, being susceptible to superstitions blunted the difference between the educated and the illiterates.

Referring to quality of education in self-financing institutions, the VC felt the time was high the Government came forward to close down colleges with sparse student strength. He noted with concern the functioning of a few self-financing colleges in Thanjavur district with a strength of less than 100 students.

Likewise, one-third of the total number of self-financing colleges in the State had a strength of less than 200 students. Whether such institutions could function with adequate staff and infrastructure was a moot question, he said, and observed that colleges could provide students with corporate and learning atmosphere only if the strength exceeds 2,000. They must have a long-term perspective, Dr. Thangamuthu said.

Later he conferred degrees on 339 students comprising undergraduate and postgraduate students, and M. Phil scholars, in the presence of the Secretary, V.S. Narasimhan.

The Principal, K. Prema, presented the convocation report. G. Rangachari, Chairman, Sri Ranganatha Paduka Trust, Chennai, presided over.

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