State Minister for Higher and Technical Education, Ravindra Waikar, has said that CCTV cameras should be installed at the Kalina campus of Mumbai University. Mr. Waikar said, “The 243-acre university should install CCTV cameras from the main gate to the main academic building.” Officials said the university will issue e-tenders to camera providers.
Work on a swimming pool will begin at the Kalina premises after the rainy. The pool will be constructed free of charge by the non-profit organisation Glenmark. The Minister said Mumbai University teachers should be encouraged to write their own textbooks and focus on research. Textbooks written by external academics are often more difficult to acquire and more expensive. Incentivising teachers within the university to write their own textbooks will achieve the two-fold benefit of furthering academic research and giving students lower costs of study,” Mr. Waikar said.
“Involving teachers in the syllabus would help update it, as was done with the Zoology course this year in April. Students at the university will be able to help draft their own syllabus for four units in their fifth semester and one unit in their sixth semester, so they can choose what they want to study. “Zoology students were told they could participate in writing syllabus, and we want other courses and faculty to follow suit,” Mr. Waikar said.
