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Mysore university to offer correspondence courses

By Our Staff Correspondent

MYSORE, MARCH 29. The University of Mysore will introduce correspondence courses from the academic year 2005-06. This was disclosed by the Vice Chancellor of the university, J. Shashidhar Prasad, at the Academic Council meeting of the university here on Tuesday.

The university is one of the first in the country to launch correspondence courses through the Institute of Correspondence and Continuing Education, which was subsequently bifurcated and renamed Karnataka State Open University.

A preliminary meeting was held recently with the authorities concerned in the Government, including the Minister for Higher Education, D. Manjunath, and the university has been granted permission to start correspondence courses from the academic year 2005-06, he said.

The Academic Council also approved a decision to introduce five-year integrated courses (M.Sc. in Chemistry, Statistics and Sericulture and Sericulture Biotechnology and M.Com) of 10 semesters each. Admission to all integrated courses will be through an open entrance examination and will be governed by common norms. Students from all over India, who have completed their pre-university or equivalent course with at least 60 per cent marks in the respective subjects to which they wish to apply, can appear for the examination.

The university also plans to introduce a Postgraduate Diploma in Management of Non-Profit Organisations and Master of Management of Non-Profit Organisations under the self-financing scheme.

The university has prepared the outlines of the course in consultation with leading NGOs such as the Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement and experts from abroad.

The university may use this opportunity to collaborate with reputed foreign universities offering similar programmes, the Vice-Chancellor said.

He said Benjamin Gidron of Ben Gurion University, Israel, visited the university last month and supported the idea of such a course.

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