Vice-Chancellor Janak Pandey explained that the candidates keen to pursue higher education could seek admission in the proposed five-year course — at present being fine-tuned by the academic council of CUB — after completing their Plus Two.
“In the first semester, they would be
imparted education in college-level introductory courses. They would
move to specialisation with the advancement of years and academic
semesters,” he said. Two exit points have been built into the plan.
“While students will be entitled to a graduation level degree on the
completion of the third year, they will be entitled to the same with
honours on successful completion of the fourth year,” If
they decide to complete five years, they would be entitled to a masters
degree.
Such structural innovations were necessary
in view of the fact that foreign universities — mainly in the US and UK
— were not admitting Indian students holding three-year graduation
degrees in their masters courses. “Most foreign universities have the
provision of four-year graduation course and as such they recognise a
four-year degree course as a valid qualification to get admitted to the
masters course. Our students pursuing higher education in the new
structure will no longer face hurdles in getting into these foreign
universities if they wish to move there,” Pandey said.
The implementation of the proposed course
is subject to the Union ministry of human resource development notifying
the possession of 1,100 acres of land at Panchampur — the abandoned
airfield of World War II barely 15km from the Gaya railway station — and
the Bihar government “persuading” BIT to make available some more space
to CUB.
“The defence ministry has already agreed
to hand over the piece of land in Gaya to CUB. The Centre’s team too has
inspected the site and has given its approval report. The only thing is
the Union ministry concerned has to complete the formality of notifying
it,” the VC said, hoping that the notification would be issued by
March. He aired a request to chief minister Nitish Kumar to “persuade”
BIT-Patna to spare “some more space” to CUB.
As of now, one of the two CUBs that is
scheduled to be shifted to Gaya has been running masters courses in 16
academic disciplines, including MTech in computer sciences and MSc in
life sciences, with 55 faculty members and 300 students. The process to
acquire the land for the CUB that is to come up at Motihari has just
begun, sources said.
Asked about the relatively low number of
students and faculty members, Pandey, a former teacher at IIT Kanpur and
former VC of Allahabad University, said: “Many global centres of
excellence began with few students with poor infrastructure — some even
under trees.”
source : Telegraph
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