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Bharathiar University plans 4-year B.Sc.
| Plan to change duration of postgraduate degree programme to one year |
A pioneer: A view of Bharathiar University campus in Coimbatore.
COIMBATORE: Bharathiar University will launch a four-year Integrated B.Sc. degree programme from the next academic year.
The course, that will encompass physiological, biological and social sciences, will be a step towards providing employable education, Vice-Chancellor G. Thiruvasagam told The Hindu.
He also planned to change the duration of the postgraduate degree programme to one year, from the conventional two years.
“The restructuring of the three-year degree course is to facilitate any graduate to become suitable for any job. There is not much interdisciplinary approach in our higher education system that enables a person to work in a field that he has not majored in. If this can be rectified, then graduates can be made multi-skilled to enable them to work in any sector,” the Vice-Chancellor said.
The new course would be designed so as to incorporate all the sciences in a certain proportion. The faculty members of the university, along with other experts, would design the curriculum.
“The University Grants Commission is also thinking on the same lines and a lot of discussion is taking place. Bharathiar University will introduce this degree course as a pilot project. Further courses will be designed based on its success.”
The country needed more human resources, but graduates from the science and humanities disciplines did not find employment easily. Though the trend favoured Information Technology, even this sector was not able to absorb all those who had been provisionally selected in campus interviews.
Against this background, the new course was expected to make graduates adequately skilled to enable them to work in the service sector as well as in the transport and infrastructure sectors that were in dire need of human resource. The announcement comes in the wake of the Vice-Chancellor’s decision to give students the option of completing a degree course in one, two or three years from next academic year.
They can walk out with a one-year diploma, a two-year advanced diploma or complete the course to earn a degree in a few disciplines.
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