DISCUSSION: Vinay Luthra, Registrar (left); S.K. Saidapur, Vice-Chancellor of Karnatak University; (centre) and Medical Education Minister V.S. Acharya at the Academic Council meeting of the Karnatak University in Dharwad on Saturday.

DHARWAD: Various departments of the Karnatak University will explore the possibility of introducing the postgraduate programmes in foreign countries.

After a discussion on the issue at the Academic Council meeting held here on Saturday, S.K. Saidapur, Vice-Chancellor of the university, asked the deans of various faculties to explore this idea.

The Academic Council also decided to give in-principle approval to the proposal of introducing the university programmes in foreign countries.

The issue came up for discussion at a meeting following a recommendation by the faculty of management on introducing the MBA programme in countries such as Singapore and Mauritius.

Participating in the debate, Medical Education Minister V.S. Acharya, who is also a member of the council, wanted to know whether the other faculties could also start such programmes abroad. Some of the members brought to the notice of the council that the Mysore university had started such programmes.

After gathering the opinions of the council members, Mr. Saidapur said he would constitute a committee headed by M.S. Subhas, Dean of Faculty of Management, to look into various issues related to this and come up with recommendations.

The Academic Council also approved the proposal to change the nomenclature of the directorate of distance education to "School of Correspondence Education" to offer correspondence courses.

The Vice-Chancellor said the Government had approved the university's proposal to start full-fledged distance education programmes. The existing external courses of the university would be merged with the correspondence courses, he added.

Following poor demand for the M.A. Public Administration course in the university's PG Centre in Bijapur, the council decided to suspend the course temporarily.

Owing to the absence of takers for the postgraduate course in Marathi at the Dharwad Centre, the meeting decided to merge the department with the Marathi Department at the Belgaum PG Centre.

The meeting also gave in-principle approval to proposals to start self-financing PG diploma courses in Marathi Media Technology at the Belgaum Campus and PG diploma course in Communal Harmony.

The Vice-Chancellor said the university was not in a position to start new courses unless they were of self-financing.

The council decided to give affiliation to 17 new B.Ed. colleges (for 2007-08) .

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