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Web-based education planned by varsity

Staff Reporter

Faculty of private colleges can acquire additional qualifications

TIRUCHI: Anna University has proposed to introduce "web-based education" from 2006-2007 for facilitating faculty in affiliated private engineering colleges to acquire ME qualification.

This faculty improvement programme will benefit Computer Science and Information Technology teachers in the initial stage, and, in later phases, contents would be developed for extending web-education for faculties in other departments. The proposal will be implemented once the Academic Council approves it, D. Viswanathan, Vice-Chancellor, told presspersons on Wednesday.

Contact classes would be held for faculties seeking to enhance their qualification in the university's proposed five zonal centres, which were likely to come up within a year in different parts of the State. These Centres, besides facilitating administration, would be the hubs for research and development under guidance of retired teachers of Indian Institutes of Technology, and the Indian Institute of Science, Dr. Viswanathan said.

Asked about the delay in notifying the date for Tamil Nadu Professional Courses Entrance Examination (TNPCEE), he acknowledged that though it should have been done by now, going by the annual practice, the university was in a state of preparedness to go ahead with its conduct once the Government gave the nod. He, however, did not foresee any difficulty arising to students due to the delay. "A student preparing earnestly for the Plus Two Public Examinations will automatically perform well in the entrance examinations," he observed.

To a question on the rationale behind banning cell phones in hostels, Dr. Viswanathan reasoned out that the decision was taken out of a "parental concern" for students.

Stating that he was not against cell phones per se, the Vice-Chancellor said that the university catered to the communication requirements of the students by installing coin box phones. He appealed to the students to do justice to the enormous money invested by self-financing colleges for broad-basing engineering education .

The infrastructure of the self-financing engineering colleges was worth Rs. 20,000 crores, and as much as Rs. 1,500 crores was spent by parents every year towards fee, the Vice-Chancellor said.

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