The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : Law schools told to avoid duplication

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Thursday, Jun 30, 2005

Karnataka

Karnataka - Bangalore

Law schools told to avoid duplication

"THERE ARE seven National Law Schools in the country. Each school should excel in a specific area of study. Duplication of the areas of specialisation would only amount to wastage of resources," said V.S. Mani, Director, Gujarat National Law University, on the sidelines of the two-day conference on "Advances in Planetary Explorations" and "Bringing Space Benefits to the Asian Region" here.

In the coastal belt of the country the focus of the law schools should be on Maritime laws. Laws relating to agriculture should be given utmost importance in all the schools, which is not adhered to. There has been too much of interest bestowed on corporate laws in recent times, he said.

When the parents pay a hefty amount for their children's education in esteemed law schools they expect some returns. It is but natural, so the fee structure should be reduced and the elitist nature of some of the schools should be shed. Only then one can find more students practising in the mainstream, observed Prof. Mani.

In India, legal education is imparted without focussing on social awareness. Laws are taught in vacuum with no relation to the social movements of that period. The teaching of non-law subjects is peripheral, the scope of which should be expanded, he felt.

"We are still emulating the British way of teaching law, though they have done away with it themselves. Bringing forth better law graduates in the country depends on the formulation of the syllabi. It is time that we dispense with the traditional jurisprudence," said Prof. Mani.

Noting that legislation on space laws was compulsory, Prof. Mani said that his dream was to see the establishment of a School of Law Science and Technology as there was a need for expertise in this field.

Internet facility

TO ENRICH their knowledge in the field of Technical Education, students of the Anekal-based Shirdi Sai Engineering College have been provided with Internet facility and also EDUSAT, a joint venture of the Visvesvaraya Technological University. The purpose: To introduce new techniques of distance education using multicasting and innovative multimedia system.

Net connectivity is just one of the several innovations of the college. Its placement cell, for instance, trains the students in psychometric test, mock group discussions and interviews to face the challenges in the professional job scenario.

Tie-up

THE BANGALORE-BASED Davar's College has announced a tie-up with the Manipal Universal Learning (attached to Sikkim Manipal University) to conduct bachelor's and master's degree programmes in various disciplines such as information technology, management, mass communication, journalism and commerce.

Davar's College has also announced the re-launch of the Davar's management division. Rasheed Kappan

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