More Students should be able to do Ph.Ds

‘More Students should be able to do Ph.Ds’

Coimbatore: “The present turnout of 222 Ph.D. holders should increase to 500 and more in the coming year. Amendments in regulations regarding Ph.D. D.Lit., and M.Phil courses that will pertain to the registration eligibility, qualification required and various other details will be brought about soon that will make it easier for research students to gain doctoral degrees without much hassles,” Vice-Chancellor of Bharathiar University G. Thiruvasagam told presspersons here on Tuesday.

“Major function of higher education should be research. Many colleges have requested for amendments to be brought about in the age-old rules and regulations pertaining to research degree. Taking their request into consideration a four-member Committee has been constituted to work on certain amendments,” he added.

The changes would permit candidates from outside Tamil Nadu to register for research courses, accept professors from outside Tamil Nadu as guides, permit students to pursue research without guides with certain restrictions, would encourage inter-disciplinary research and in such cases would also permit such research projects to be approved without a co-guide.

The candidates would be encouraged to change his guide or title with valid reasons. A Doctoral Committee would meet once a year to monitor and advise the research student.

The fee structure would also be revised by the amendment committee. The examiner panel that would evaluate the research thesis would have to registrar with an e-mail id and not with postal address.

With regard to the changes planned in distance education courses, he said that admission to these courses would be open throughout the year. From January 15 a City Centre would start functioning from the heart of the city to aid those applying for the courses.

Some new courses that would be incorporated in the distance education mode would be: UG and PG degree Ophthalmic Assistant, Physician Assistant, Marine Science, and Nano Technology; MBA in retail management, police administration and defence management.

Prof. Thiruvasagam said: “At least 100 distance education centres will be opened all over India. Course material will be provided in the form of compact discs and not as books”.

Referring to the Tamil Nadu Government’s directive of using Tamil as the official language in universities, he said, “This is a very long process.”

More Students should be able to do Ph.Ds

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