BHIMAVARAM: L. Venugopal Reddy, Vice-Chancellor, Andhra University, on Tuesday made a strong case in favour of the controversial five-year integrated degree course regardless of a stiff opposition from student organisations.

Inaugurating a two-day workshop on "teaching, experimental and research protocols in pharmaceutical sciences' organised by Sri Vishnu College of Pharmacy, he asserted that the proposed five-year degree course got a special relevance to pharmaceutical sciences. Repetition of syllabus could be eliminated and a sound research base provided to students, if the five-year integrated degree course was introduced in pharmaceutical sciences, the Vice-Chancellor added.

Rs. 1-crore grant

He said that the university had received Rs. 1 crore from the State government for strengthening of the five-year integrated degree course in the university-affiliated colleges. The university had already introduced the integrated course in applied chemistry. A similar move in geology, geophysics and geo-informatics was also under consideration, he said.

Mr. Reddy asserted that the university under his stewardship had been giving an impetus to quality education in order to help students cope with the global competition in the job market by way of restructuring syllabi from time to time in suit with the changing conditions and industry requirements.

K.P.R. Chowdary, Principal, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Andhra University, exhorted students to develop independent reading and understanding of teaching content by utilising teacher as a facilitator. He wanted the students of pharmaceutical sciences to get equipped with a strong academic base and survive in the global competition. Dontamsetti Basava Raju, Principal, Sri Vishnu College of Pharmacy, said the workshop was intended to impart teaching skills, and research protocols to young teachers, research scholars and under graduate and post-graduate students in pharmaceutical sciences. K.V. Vishnu Raju, Chairman, Sri Vishnu Educational Society, was in the chair.

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