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Bharathiar University Vice-Chancellor Welcomes Private Initiatives

Bharathiar University Vice-Chancellor Welcomes Private Initiatives

Coimbatore: Private Initiatives should be encouraged in higher education, G. Thiruvasagam, Vice-Chancellor, Bharathiar University, said here on Thursday.

Delivering the convocation address at the Sri Ramakrishna College of Arts and Science for Women, he said that private and self financing colleges should be given necessary support by the Government and universities. More than 70 per cent of the students studied in self-financing colleges and out of 18,000 colleges, 62 per cent were run by private parties. Private colleges fared better in terms of infrastructure, quality of instruction, opportunities for research and effective teaching techniques. On the other hand, there were certain colleges that did not have the required infrastructure.

It was the duty of the Government and the universities to monitor and evaluate colleges and see that all of them had the same level of facilities. Bharathiar University did not sanction new courses to colleges until they met the required quality standards in terms of infrastructure and other educational facilities.

He said that the non-information technology graduates had plenty of job opportunities in hotel, tourism, manufacturing and retail management industries, not to mention business and entrepreneurship. Non-IT students had as many jobs as their IT counterparts.

Dr. Thiruvasagam advised the graduates to approach the university for research programmes. Opportunities for research in biotechnology, microbiology, and basic sciences were plenty and students could even obtain scholarships for pursuing their research interests. In keeping with the interests of the industry, Bharathiar University had also redesigned the curriculum for subjects, especially English, in order to make it more application oriented, he said.

R.Venkatesalu, Managing Trustee of the SNR Sons Charitable Trust, said a training institute for soft skills for the Sri Ramakrishna College of Arts and Science for Women was on the anvil.

Bharathiar University Vice-Chancellor Welcomes Private Initiatives

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