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One-year B.Ed. course for aspiring English teachers

Bangalore: The Academic Council of Bangalore University on Saturday decided to institute a one-year B.Ed. course in English language teaching.

The Faculty of English representative said the course would help address the need for quality English teachers at the secondary school level. The course was proposed by the Regional Institute of English.

The Academic Council decided to start the course

on a pilot basis at the RIE. Of the 100 seats on offer, 16 would be reserved for students from the southern States while 20 for those from the northern States.

Candidates from any discipline, who have studied English as an optional subject, may apply to this course.

The Academic Council decided to amend the maximum age limit for seeking admission to the five-year LL.B. course. It decided to leave the maximum age limit open-ended.

The members felt that the number of candidates, who are aged above 22, seeking admission to the LL.B. course, was less and decided to do away with the maximum age limit. The council decided to introduce Kannada as a subject in the five-year LL.B. course.

The reports of the expert committee formed to check if recognition could be accorded to colleges to start Ph. D. research centres were discussed.

Of the 10 colleges that had applied, two had withdrawn their request. The council approved the decision to accord the other eight colleges recognition to start the Ph. D. research centre.

The colleges are Government Arts College, Christ College, Government Science College, Dr. Rammanohar Lohia College of Law, Government R.C. College of Commerce and Management, KLE Society’s S. Nijalingappa College and Mount Carmel College.

The academic council approved the amendments that were incorporated to the malpractice ordinance. Students booked under malpractice in the university examinations would be governed by Malpractice Ordinance according to which punishments were imposed, based on the nature of malpractices.

The need for the amendments arose since the annual scheme had supplementary examinations and semester scheme had no supplementary examinations.

Hence, if the punishments enumerated in the earlier ordinances were imposed, it would affect the students of the annual and semester schemes with regard to their waiting period for the next appearance.

One of the amendments pertained to the period that a student caught indulging in malpractices is debarred.

The Academic Council decided to re-introduce M. Phil. courses from the next academic year. The new syllabus of the University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering would be revised from the next semester.

Vice-Chancellor H.A. Ranganath chaired the academic council meeting.

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