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University to get new status

Staff Reporter

TIRUCHI: Bharathidasan University is well on its way to becoming a Central varsity.

The State Government had agreed in principle to pave way for the university’s transition following a proposal made by the Union Human Resource Ministry with the larger objective of starting 30 central universities in the country for accelerating high-end researches.

The choice of Bharathidasan University in Tamil Nadu was made considering the quantum of research activities there. There is no hitch in affiliated colleges remaining with the university in the event of its becoming a central varsity, the Vice-Chancellor, M. Ponnavaiko, told presspersons on Monday.

To ensure employability of students, the University would go about integrating IT into the core curriculum of degree programmes of affiliated colleges from the next semester. The benefits accruing from employment-oriented software packages is more in studying it as a core discipline than as value-added programmes. The learning of the packages would either be made as an addition to the existing curriculum or as a replacement for one of the papers from the next semester onwards, said the Vice-Chancellor, adding that the students would have the option of choosing the electives in application areas of IT. All the colleges were equipped with the required infrastructure to accord a thrust to the university’s endeavour, he said.

The university would introduce B.Sc Animation from the next academic year. Training in animation software packages has been taking place outside the university system. But the concepts are created by artists and animation software packages are created based on that by trained professionals. The B.Sc. programme would equip the students to conceptualise the ideas themselves and create the software.

The university would associate itself with the animation industry to offer the programme. In doing so, the university would become the first in Tamil Nadu to offer the programme.

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