Cause for celebration: The committee has recommended the establshment of a women’s university in Kerala. A committee formed by the Kerala State Higher Education Council outlines its vision for 10 years The establishment of a women’s university and separate universities for individual professional courses, 80 per cent commonality of name and content for degree courses [...]

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Cause for celebration: The committee has recommended the establshment of a women’s university in Kerala.

A committee formed by the Kerala State Higher Education Council outlines its vision for 10 years

The establishment of a women’s university and separate universities for individual professional courses, 80 per cent commonality of name and content for degree courses across Kerala and the setting up of a State council for social sciences and Humanities are among the major recommendations in an interim report prepared by a committee formed by the Kerala State Higher Education Council to give a new shape to the State’s education policy.

The interim report, presented to the executive council of the council in Thiruvanananthapuram on October 19, outlines a vision for the next 10 years under the titles of “Expansion,” “Excellence” and “Equity.” To bring all these reforms to fruition, the “tentative financial implication,” as calculated by the committee, is Rs. 3,995 crore.

Under the “Expansion” title, the committee recommends the institution of separate universities for professional courses. This means separate universities for engineering and medicine (which the State is already moving to) and for nursing, paramedical education, dental science, law and teacher education.

New colleges

While new colleges should be established in the backward districts of Malappuram, Palakkad, Wayanad, Kannur and Idukki, 10 women’s colleges, with full hostel facilities, should be opened, it says.

“The institutional infrastructure and facilities should be increased in order to improve quality and intake in all degree programmes, which are in demand and are relevant to the industry and society,” the committee says.

All institutions should increase their intake by 50 per cent in the next five years and by 100 per cent in the next 10 years for programmes of relevance and demand.

The interim report calls for setting up a State university for distance education. Apart from the dissemination of distance education, this will help phase out the private registration system, it says.

“A modified version of Distance Education called “Twinning Programme” successfully implemented at Pondicherry University can be adopted by the State Open University of Kerala.




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