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| Monday, May 26, 2008
Bharathiar University to open regional centre in Madurai
It will be technologically equipped to enable students to
learn online
- To come up opposite district court
- Video-conferencing will be available
Madurai: A regional centre of Coimbatore-based Bharathiar University
will be opened in Madurai by the middle of June for the benefit
of students in its distance education stream.
The regional centre, coming up opposite the district court,
will be technologically equipped to enable the students to have
online learning, video-conferencing and direct interaction with
resource persons, according to G. Thiruvasagam, Vice-Chancellor.
He told The Hindu here on Saturday that the proposed centre
would cater to needs of candidates who were enrolled at nearly
40 study centres in this region.
“ Students, who do not have a personal computer at home,
can come to the regional centre and learn lessons offered through
network broadcasting,” he said. The university had allocated
Rs. 30 lakh towards establishing technology-oriented learning
centres at different places in the State, including Chennai.
The Vice-Chancellor said that the varsity’s distance education
wing was taking steps to create facilities for interactive learning
through video-conferencing. A digital library would also be
there at the regional centres for students to collect lessons
in CD format. A one-year ‘Executive MBA’ programme
had been launched by the university targeting employees working
in Government, quasi-Government undertakings and private companies
registered under the Companies Act. Under this programme, an
employee’s work experience of three years would be equated
with the first year of MBA programme. It would be available
both in regular and distance education modes.
“The course has been approved by the AICTE and the Distance
Education Council, New Delhi,” he said.
“We have no hesitation to come to the conclusion that
Clause IV(a)(iii) of the Annexure to the G.O., which compels
the self-financing colleges of education to surrender 50 per
cent of their seats as Government quota is clearly ultra vires.”
Courtesy: The Hindu
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