The State government has returned the draft of a revised proposal of Mangalore University, bringing its postgraduate courses under the choice-based credit semester scheme. It has asked the university to re-draft the proposal by adding a clause and send it again.
Hence, the university will be able to introduce the scheme from the academic year 2011-12 only if the government approved the re-draft before June, an authority of the university told The Hindu .
The Governor, who is the Chancellor of the university, approved the draft regulations governing the scheme on August 26, 2009.
The draft was prepared when K.M. Kaveriappa was the Vice-Chancellor.
Following this, on January 19, 2010, the university issued a notification for implementation of the scheme from the academic year 2010-11.
But the Academic Council of the university at its March 10, 2010 meeting decided to “defer” the scheme for 2010-11 as the members suggested the new Vice-Chancellor T. C. Shivashankara Murthy to re-consider the university's decision.
They said that there were some “grey areas” in the scheme.
Hence, it should be addressed first before implementing it. Following this, the university sent the revised (second draft) draft to the government for approval.
Prof. Shivashankara Murthy told The Hindu on Wednesday that the government had asked the university to incorporate a clause of repealing the notification issued in January, 2010, in the revised (second) draft. After incorporating it, the same would be tabled before the Academic Council's special meeting on April 30 for approval. Later, it would be sent to the government for approval.
The government had not asked to make any other change, Prof. Murthy said.
Earlier, Prof. Murthy in the March 2010 Academic Council meeting gone on record that the old scheme imposed some restrictions on the choice of subjects by students.
The old scheme allowed students to study inter-disciplinary subjects within the stream. (For example, science students were able to study inter-disciplinary subjects within the science stream only). Hence, there was a need to prepare a set of different subjects from different streams with simple syllabi.
Students should be allowed to choose a subject of their choice, as the inter-disciplinary subject, from the set. The scheme had been revised accordingly.
