Coimbatore BU lifting rural students
In a bid to promote rural colleges and to encourage more rural students to enrol in these colleges, the Bharathiar University has proposed some concessions, its Vice-Chancellor told a press conference here on Saturday.“The proposals will be placed before the Syndicate on March 14. The need for promoting rural colleges is being felt urgently because the benefits of higher education do not seem to reach them. The colleges are not fully equipped in many ways, which forces the rural students to either stop with graduation, or travel to city colleges to pursue specialised or post-graduate courses,” said the Vice-Chancellor.Separate placement activities would be held for rural students benefit
Mr. Thiruvasagam has proposed to offer five new courses a year to the rural colleges. Though this system was being followed in other colleges too, introduction of a new section was considered as a new course. This would not be so in the case of rural colleges. “New courses and new sections will be segregated.”
Also, a college could apply for PG courses only when it had completed five years.In the case of rural colleges, the university has plans to offer it in the second year itself. They would also be allotted an additional 10 per cent seats. The Vice-Chancellor also added that the Department of Career Development and Students’ Welfare would in future organise programmes exclusively for students of the rural colleges. Separate placement activities would be held for their benefit. Mr. Thiruvasagam said that the university would organise a job fair shortly exclusively for women.
