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A MOMENT TO CHERISH: Governor and Thiruvalluvar University Chancellor Surjit Singh Barnala presenting the degree certificate to a student at the convocation of the university in Vellore on Wednesday. K. Ponmudy, Higher Education Minister and University Pro-Chancellor, is in the picture. VELLORE: Common scientific technical terms should be used in all languages, including Tamil, so that science could be easily understood by the students and the public, V.P. Narayanan, former Vice-Chancellor of Madras Medical College and Research Institute , said here on Wednesday. He was delivering the convocation address at the 3rd annual convocation of Thiruvalluvar University at Christian Medical College. Dr. Narayanan called upon science educationists to use the common technical terms. “Common scientific terms alone will facilitate easy understanding of the subject. This is similar to the way the Tamils settled in the United States teach Tamil to their children through transliteration, wherein sound gains more importance than the written word,” he said. Governor and Chancellor of Thiruvalluvar University Surjit Singh Barnala presided over the convocation and distributed medals, prizes and certificates to candidates. Pledge administeredHe also administered the pledge to the candidates. Eighty-eight persons received their degrees in person, while 19,018 received the degrees in absentia. Minister for Higher Education and Pro-Chancellor of Thiruvalluvar University K. Ponmudy said the number of students in government arts and science colleges in the State had gone up from 60,000 to one lakh after the introduction of two shifts in the colleges. Seven new government arts and science colleges have been started by the State government in the last one year. While the government has taken steps for the quantitative improvement of higher education by starting more colleges and increasing the number of seats in the colleges, it has also taken steps for qualitative improvement by appointing 975 lecturers. Another 1,100 lecturers are to be appointed soon. The government has decided to start 20 government engineering colleges during the current academic year to provide access to engineering education to the aspirants from poor families, he said. Vice-Chancellor of Thiruvalluvar University L. Kannan welcomed the gathering and read out the annual report for 2006-2007.
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