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Latest News |
| 28th
January 2010 / Times of India / Ahmedabad Edition |
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College ma computers COMPULSORY NOW
Semester System, Choice-based Credits To Debut From
June; Decisions Taken At High-Level Meeting
Ahmedabad: Come June and English and computers will become
compulsory subjects for collegians across Gujarat. And,
choosing maths with history as your subject will also
be possible.
These decisions were taken on Wednesday at a high-level
meeting held in the office of Gujarat Council for Education
Research and Training (GCERT) in Gandhinagar.
The chairman of UGC, SK Thorat , chaired the meeting along
with education ministers. The meeting saw all vice-chancellors
of Gujarat discussing implementation of semester and choice
based credit system which has been recommended by UGC.
Some six years ago, UGC had provided a detailed framework
for overhauling the prevalent education system by introducing
the semester system , choicebased credit and grading system.
The state education department , however, kept dilly-dallying
on the issue. Finally, it took a threat from UGC to make
the state education department fall in line. UGC had threatened
to stop all financial grant.
All the V-Cs have assured to implement the new semester
and choicebased credit system from the next academic session
starting June. The changes will not mean any extra burden
on the students or teachers. This will ensure all-round
development for students, said Hasmukh Adhia, principal
secretary of state education.
Semester system will mean that the three years of graduation
will be divided into six semesters.
AU Patel, former V-C of GU, who is the co-ordinator of
the reform committee which looked into the nittygritties
of implementing these systems said, Basic and practical
knowledge of English and computers will be compulsorily
imparted to all students of undergraduate and postgraduate
courses. We have designed course content for the same.
The choice based credit system will give students the
option to chose from 2,000 elective subjects. Performance
of students in these elective subjects will have an impact
on the credit they earn in each semester.
UGC norms not followed by private univs:
According to a V-C , the issue of UGC norms not being
followed by private universities that have come up recently
was also discussed in Wednesdays meeting. The university
authorities were specifically told to call a meeting of
academic councils regularly, adhere to UGC norms and also
include experts in committee meetings. TNN
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