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Varsity to review programmes

TIRUCHI: All academic programmes offered in Bharathidasan University and through affiliated colleges will be reviewed. Skill-based courses and training will be integrated into the curriculum to make students employable immediately after graduation, Vice-Chancellor M. Ponnavaikko said on Saturday.

The Choice-Based Credit System will be customised for the purpose, he said, addressing a meeting of the Senate for the first time after his assumption of office three months ago.

Presenting his vision, the Vice-Chancellor said the university would consolidate its research activities to set up centres of excellence in innovative areas such as Life Sciences, Nanotechnology, High Performance Computing and Geosciences (including Remote Sensing, GIS and GPS). in conformity with the University Grants Commission’s goal to develop universities with potential for excellence.

Dr. Ponnavaikko promised to create on the university premises a residential complex that would fulfil all requirements of the faculty to accelerate research since they could spend more time in the laboratories. A resource centre would be created and a committee comprising retired researchers of high standing would be constituted. Affiliated colleges could utilise their expertise and invite them to deliver lectures and guide research. As in leading universities across the world, a Lab for Innovation (Incubation Centres) would be created with facilities for creative students to make original contribution and inventions.

Technical Tamil resources would be developed to initiate students with Tamil as mother tongue into creative research. Contents of technical journals will find a place in the proposed Bharathidasan University Journal of Science and Technology, he said, inviting faculty of university and affiliated colleges to contribute research journals in English and Tamil. Journals contributed only in English would be translated.

The university would improve upon the system of e-governance, he said, assuring creation of a database that would encompass data regarding administration, finance, schools and departments, affiliated colleges, staff and students, and provide access in a secured environment.

To bring underprivileged students into the ambit of higher education, the university would make an assessment on opening colleges in areas of need in the seven jurisdictional districts.

Commending the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Career Development for offering programmes on life skills that addressed the livelihood of school drop-outs and rural women, he said the varsity would work towards creating internet facilities in villages in association with the National Institute of Technology-Tiruchi, under the aegis of Bharathidasan PURA (Provision of Urban Amenities in Rural Areas), the pet project of the former President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.

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