DHARWAD: Karnatak University is contemplating introducing short-term courses, especially for students from abroad who come to the university under "Study Abroad Programme" (SAP).

Addressing presspersons here on the eve of the 56th convocation of the university, Vice-Chancellor Khajapeer said that at present, lecturers and professors of the university are going abroad under SAP. The university should have some short-term courses, especially in music and yoga, which are of interest to students from abroad. Such courses will be devised soon. The university will focus on developing and opening postgraduate centres with an aim of reaching higher education to more students. By January, a postgraduate centre in Bijapur will be ready. The university has been given 32 acres of land off Bijapur-Athani Highway for the purpose. "Another postgraduate centre will be set up in Gadag. We have Rs. 1 crore and 38 acres for the purpose. The university needs 40 acres more, and we have requested the department concerned to acquire land and give it to us. We have launched postgraduate courses at G.H. College in Haveri," Dr. Khajapeer said. There is a plan to set up a centre for music, which will go a long way in encouraging studies in Hindustani Classical music, he said.

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