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| Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Bharathiar University to adopt ‘cluster college’
concept
COIMBATORE: Subsequent to the announcement of Higher Education
Minister K. Ponmudy’s proposal at the recently-held Vice-Chancellors’
meet in Chennai to form a group of colleges into a cluster to
share resources, Bharathiar University will adopt the cluster
concept from the next academic year, Vice-Chancellor G. Thiruvasagam
told The Hindu.
“The university will adopt this system in such a way that
there will be a mix of Government, aided, self-financing and
private colleges in each cluster.
This will be different from the initial proposal of the Government
of each cluster having the same type of colleges. Nine such
clusters will be formed as a pilot project,” Mr. Thiruvasagam
said.
The meet had left it to the discretion of the universities to
adopt the cluster concept and also form the kind of cluster
they wished to.
Principals’ meet
Bharathiar University is the first to have announced the implementation
of the concept from the academic year 2008, according to the
Vice-Chancellor.
The Vice-Chancellor plans to convene a meeting of college secretaries
and principals in the first week of March, along with Joint
Director of Collegiate Education V. Swaminathan, to discuss
the system. An executive committee, in which the university
representative will be the convener, will manage each cluster.
According to Mr. Thiruvasagam, the system would enable the colleges
to share resources, manpower, equipment, knowledge and infrastructure.
“Most of the colleges that have specialised courses such
as fashion technology, printing technology or catering and hotel
management do not have the required infrastructure or qualified
faculty to run the courses effectively. Some are in such a poor
state that the department has to be closed down. The cluster
concept will help address this problem, as an alternative,”
Mr. Thiruvasagam said.
The colleges that would come under one cluster and the kind
of sharing they would do would be discussed and a memorandum
of understanding signed.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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