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Move to help unsuccessful candidates of Plus Two

Staff Reporter

Varsity proposal to facilitate them join diploma/certificate courses

TIRUCHI: It is not the end of the road of higher education for Plus Two candidates, who fail repeatedly in one or two subjects mainly due to their aversion towards particular disciplines.

Emulating the decades-long practice in the developed world for widening the base of higher education stakeholders, Bharathidasan University has decided to integrate this category of students into mainstream higher education using community colleges as a link. The move follows a brainstorming at the recent all-India meet of vice-chancellors in Mumbai where a majority advocated measures for increasing the dismally low 7 per cent of beneficiaries of higher education in the eligible age group at present to 20 per cent by 2020.

The university's plan is to facilitate these students to earn credits under Diploma/Certificate programmes of its Institute for Entrepreneurship Development (IECD) or any other community college, in accordance with their aptitude, to recompense for their failure in Plus Two.

VC's proposal

A proposal mooted by the Vice-Chancellor, C. Thangamuthu, at the meeting of Standing Committee on Academic Affairs (SCAA) on Thursday, after obtaining the due assent of the Syndicate, for making provisions in the university regulations of UG programmes for vertical mobility of such students, was accepted by the House.

"They will otherwise end up as drop-outs," Prof. Thangamuthu said during a discussion that preceded acceptance of the proposal.

Insisting that the decision was the university's prerogative, he maintained that it holds good for affiliated Government colleges too.

Skill enhancement

The university's premise was that the government would not only appreciate but also broad base the concept of integrating such students into formal education through a process of skill enhancement, he said.

Delineating the approach, the Dean, Faculty of Science, M.A. Akbarsha, said candidates who had failed in one subject would be required to earn 9 credits for a certificate course, entailing three papers, each warranting 48 hours of study.

Those who had failed in two subjects must take up two such certificate courses or any one diploma course of 18 credits that encompasses six papers, each requiring 48 hours of study.

Likewise, the section of Plus Two passed candidates, whose academic pursuits are curtailed due to economic or any other personal problems, could complete two diploma or four certificate courses to become eligible for admission to second year of UG courses in affiliated colleges / Centre for Distance Education.

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