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Call to restructure degree education

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Bachelor degree education in the State should be comprehensively revamped through the introduction of the semester and grading system and by adopting an inter-disciplinary approach to degree courses, the vice-chairman of the State Higher Education Council K.N. Panikkar has said.

He was inaugurating a seminar on ‘Higher Education Sector-Problems and Solutions’ organised by the Kerala University Union, here on Tuesday.

Graduate courses are the weakest link in the State’s higher education chain. A new system — where there is freedom for the student to choose what he learns, freedom to change subjects and where there is freedom to the teacher to choose what is to be taught — needs to be put in place. As part of the revamp, the existing ‘classroom system’ of education needs to be destroyed. In the new system there should be scope for student feedback on the teacher’s performance, he said.

The State should have a higher education scholarship fund to ensure social justice in the sector, he said. The fund can be used be used for two things — to help those from economically weaker sections to go for higher studies and to provide scholarships for bright students who want to study core science courses or arts and humanities courses.

In his address the former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Kerala B. Ekbal said that while the State’s health system is a crisis, the higher education system has collapsed.

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