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“Streamline education system in the country”

Staff Reporter

Governor presides over convocation of Alagappa University

KARAIKUDI: The recommendations of the National Knowledge Commission to streamline education system in the country would be a turning point in the process of transforming the society as knowledge-based, said Ponnambala Desigar, Head of the Kundrakudi Mutt.

He was addressing the 20th convocation of Alagappa University, which was presided over by the Governor-cum-Chancellor of the university, Surjith Singh Barnala, here on Monday. He said that providing autonomy to colleges, starting community college programmes with regular courses, increasing number of universities to meet the actual demand, clearing discrepancies in the existing system, enhancing overall quality of institutions, besides examining the students the testing of the standard of teachers at regular intervals would improve quality of education imparted to students.

Educational institutions must equip themselves to carry forward the system proposed by the National Knowledge Commission. A revolutionary approach must be introduced to create a sea change in the entire education system.

Mother tongue

Expressing concern over the general attitude of giving less importance to one’s mother tongue, he said that students should at least know how to speak, read and write it without grammatical errors. All stakeholders must take a vow to protect the mother tongue.

Remembering the services rendered by the noted educationist Alagappa Chettiar, who donated nearly 300 acres for establishing the Central Electrochemical Research Institute (CECRI) and educational institutions at Karaikudi, he said that the educationists and service-minded people must have a visionary thinking like him to educate the needy.

P. Ramasamy, Vice-Chancellor, said that the university planned to introduce two courses — nano science and technology and animal health and management from the next academic year. Two new departments — bioelectronics and biosensors and bioinformatics —were created. Seven new courses were introduced in the distance education mode. Fresh affiliation was granted to four institutions in Ramanathapuram and Sivaganga districts.

A total of 21,724 graduates including 92 Ph.D, 195 M.Phil and 25 gold medallists received degrees from the Governor.

R. Dhandapani, Registrar, and Umayal Ramanathan, syndicate member, were present.

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