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University will introduce new job-oriented courses It will re-organise ‘non-taken and non-viable’ courses COIMBATORE: Several novel measures to increase the Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) of higher education will be undertaken by Bharathiar University as an outcome of the decision taken at the Vice-Chancellors’ conference in New Delhi. “We are going to introduce certain measures to increase access to higher education without compromising on quality”, Vice-Chancellor G. Thiruvasagam told The Hindu. “New colleges that will come up in rural/hilly areas and ones that will be established exclusively for women will be given concessions with regard to endowment and affiliation. This will be an attempt at making higher education affordable to youth in those areas and will also try to iron out the regional imbalances”, he said. He would ensure that the new colleges gave the number of SC/ST students that they would admit. He felt that this category was being neglected in spite of mushrooming of colleges. The university would introduce new job-oriented courses, re-organise ‘non-taken and non-viable’ courses with computer components. Colleges would be permitted to open extra sections, in addition to the two they have now, if adequate infrastructure was available. They would also be permitted to work in shifts like Government colleges. “This is aimed at taking the strength of undergraduates to 5,000 in each city college and 2,000 in each rural college”. The Vice-Chancellor stressed the need for hostels in colleges. Students could refrain from travelling long distances to attend college, he said. Taking all these into consideration, he said he would entertain applications for establishing new colleges, introducing new courses, permission for increase in intake of students and introducing additional sections. The last date for the same would be October 31. Even if all these were put in place, Dr. Thiruvasagam believed that the main factor that still made education elusive for the youth was the lack of means. To rectify this, he had plans to make colleges organise bank loans for those wishing to take up higher education. “There are many who are unaware of the education loans being provided by banks. Students should be encouraged to make good use of them”, he asserted. These proposals when implemented, he believed, would help achieve his target of increasing the GER to at least 15 per cent from the existing six.
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