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Training for teachers in new system

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With a view to train college teachers in the intricacies of the choice-based credit and semester system newly introduced for degree courses, the University of Kerala is organising a month-long training programme at its Academic Staff College (ASC).

The first of the training classes for Mathematics, Malayalam and Commerce will be held there on July 26. Teachers who are intimately familiar with the new system will lead the sessions in which two teachers from a college will participate. These two teachers will train others in their departments.

“We are initiating this programme so that the new system for degree courses will operate smoothly,” pro-vice chancellor of the University J. Prabhash told The Hindu on Thursday.

Grading and assessment

Director of the ASC Jacob John Kattakkayam said here the sessions would focus on aspects of grading, evaluation, internal assessment and on assignments and their grading.

“While some subjects will have a two-day training programme, others like Malayalam will have a three-day session. We had asked the chairmen of the various boards of study to identify resource persons for these sessions,” he explained.

This programme was put in place by the pro-vice chancellor — who heads the university-level monitoring committee for the new system — after he found that there was uncertainty about some aspects of the new system among college teachers even after the roll-out of the system this academic year. The University of Kerala was the last in the State to do away with the decades-old ‘annual system' for degree courses.

Monthly meetings

In order to keep tabs on the functioning of the credit and semester system in individual colleges, the university has also decided to convene monthly meetings of the college-level coordinators of the new programme. “This way we can know first hand how things are at on the ground. Any problem common to colleges can be speedily identified and sorted out,” Dr. Prabhash explained.

The university-level monitoring committee will meet shortly to discuss problems about the new system pointed out by the academic community. The pro-vice chancellor is also planning to periodically visit colleges for on-the-spot assessments about the functioning of the credit and semester system.

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