| Thursday, June 05, 2008
Increase employability of students: VC
Coimbatore: The industry is looking for graduates who are sound
in the subject knowledge and communication skills. Students
should be sound in these two areas to increase their employability
skills.
The onus of this tremendous task lies squarely with the teachers,
Bharathiar University Vice-Chancellor G. Thiruvasagam said here
recently.
Inaugurating a two-day faculty development programme at the
Nehru Arts and Science College for faculty
members of Nehru Group of Institutions, he
urged teachers to be continuous learners. They should take pride
in the fact that they were learning professors and not learned
professors in the past sense.
Continuous learners
“Industries are looking for two capabilities, namely,
task performance and conceptual performance. Task performance
referred to knowledge in core area and conceptual performance
referred to behaviour and application orientation,” the
Vice-Chancellor said.
He said a university curriculum should comprise five components,
viz., language and communication, presentation skills, personality
enrichment, computing skill and acquisition of a foreign language.
Terming teaching a social function, he said it was sad that
teaching as a profession did not enjoy the same status as that
of medicine, engineering and law.
But, the benefits of teaching could be felt over a maximum number
of years.
“Taking advantage of enhanced educational facilities,
many young men and women from disadvantaged backgrounds have
acquired places of high prestige in society,” Mr. Thiruvasagam
added.
P.Krishna Kumar, Secretary, Nehru Group of Institutions, A.Arunachalam,
Principal, Nehru Arts and Science College, and A.Thanikodi,
Director, UGC – Academic Staff College, Bharathiar University,
spoke.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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