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March 2010 / Times of India / Ahmedabad Edition |
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 Univs. in Gujarat to switch to credit system by next year
Gandhinagar: On lines of universities abroad,state government announced on Thursday that universities in Gujarat will implement the choice-based credit system (CBCS) from next academic year.
This means an undergraduate student of economics can also take physics or chemistry as an “elective subject” or a student of music could also do mathematics to upgrade the overall performance and credit. This globally accepted system is already implemented in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh. Following a directive from the Universities Grants Commission (UGC) to effect it at the earliest, the state government announced in the Assembly on Thursday that the state’s universities will switch from the current percentage based system to CBCS. By next academic year (2011-12), CBCS will be implemented gradually in universities, to be completed in three years.
State education minister Ramanlal Vora told the Assembly: “It will facilitate graduate and post-graduate students to use their talent. It will also help them rank themselves while seeking admission abroad and in other states.” The government has begun preparing textbooks for elective subjects.
Saurashtra University, Rajkot, and Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar, and a few technical institutes have partially implemented CBCS. While science colleges will do it first, arts and commerce colleges may take some more time.
With the introduction of CBCS, there will be three types of subjects, with credit system as the base. There will be a core course, which each student must take, and a foundation course, which can be English for arts students. Then, there will be elective courses, which a student can take in order to improve the overall credit performance.
Board not to declare merit list
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board (GSHSEB) has this year decided not to put out a merit list, which led to a rise in depression, stress and suicide rates among students. Instead, the board will declare percentiles for the state and districts. “Starting from this year, we shall announce the number of students in each percentile group. No names will be mentioned, neither will any one student or even a group of toppers be highlighted any more,” a senior GSHSEB official disclosed.
The decision is now with the state education department for clearance. Class XII (science) results are to be declared on May 20, general stream on May 27 and class X on June 3. The decision, however, may not be binding on schools, who might still be free to draw up a merit list. “We still have another couple of months to go before the results are declared. It is yet to be decided whether individual school managements will be allowed to announce the name of the toppers of their schools,” said a GSHSEB source.
GSHSEB had formed an exam reform committee headed by former chief secretary Sudhir Mankad.
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