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Friday, Dec 30, 2005

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Anna varsity writes to Government on CET

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We are yet to get a reply, says Vice-Chancellor Viswanathan

CHENNAI: Anna University has written to the State Government, seeking directions for the conduct of the Common Entrance Test (CET) for admission to professional courses for the next academic year.

"As we are the only agency conducting the CET in the State, we have asked the Government for clear directions. We are yet to get a reply... As such, no schedule for the CET has been drawn up," Vice-Chancellor D. Viswanathan told presspersons here on Thursday.

The communication gains significance, as the State is to decide whether or not the CET would be held this year. Last year, while revoking an earlier order scrapping the CET, the Government had said entrance examinations would not be held from this year and that a new admission policy would be evolved.

Earlier, inaugurating a conference on `Emerging Paradigms in Management Education', organised by the university's Department of Management Studies in honour of V. Nageswaran, chairman, Faculty of Management Studies, Dr. Viswanathan said both students and faculty of management should be trained in all aspects of industry such as marketing, sales and production.

Stressing the need for hands-on training, he said distance education programmes in management were like learning to swim without water. "Industries should come forward with modules to be incorporated in the syllabus, and students should be encouraged to design self-learning modules."

P. Christie, Director, Loyola Institute of Business Administration, said the emergence of the knowledge economy in the context of globalisation had created a paradigm shift in business education which, in turn, had led to an increase in numbers of such higher education institutions.

Five components needed to make business education relevant to the present needs were learning to do, learning to live, learning to live with others, learning to be and learning to adapt.

"An ethical perspective, strongly rooted in values, is needed in business education today.

A new breed of knowledge managers, armed with skill enhancement and value-based education, are needed to work competently and effectively in the emerging knowledge economy," Fr. Christie said.

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