In some good news for the students, Nagpur University's Academic Council on Thursday cleared the proposal to implement Choice-based Credit System (CBCS) from academic session 2012-13, senior officials have said.
The much-delayed decision will help students in the long run as it is accepted globally. NU is the only non-agricultural university in Maharashtra which had not yet adopted CBCS. Even neighbouring Amravati University, which was once part of NU, had adopted this system as per UGC guidelines from last academic session. TOI had on May 19, 2010, reported that CBCS would take at least two years to be implemented in NU due to politics and lethargy of the administration.
During a marathon meeting of the council, members from majority of faculties agreed to implement CBCS from next session. The members also decided to introduce semester pattern in all post graduate courses, which is a mandatory requirement for implementing CBCS. Other big universities like Mumbai and Pune had adopted the system long ago. In fact, Pune was the first to implement this system at undergraduate (UG) level too.
Even Maharashtra government had directed all universities to implement CBCS for all courses from next academic session. Additionally, UGC had asked universities to revamp their systems by introducing semesters and CBCS to improve quality of higher education.
Currently, only engineering, MCA and pharmacy courses in NU are being operated on the semester pattern, while most other courses across all faculties, where student numbers are maximum, are still being run on yearly pattern. At present, CBCS has been implemented in newly-opened genetic engineering and molecular biology department of NU.
Officials added that many other important decisions were also taken, including renaming of medicine faculty as 'pharmaceutical sciences faculty', since all medical courses have been shifted to the Nashik-based MUHS. A proposal in this regard was mooted by former head of NU pharmacy department Pramod Yeole.
The long-ending proposal of grade improvement scheme for PG courses moved by senior member Baban Taywade was also cleared with a voice vote. Additionally, new norms for fixing research centres for PhD was also passed, which will enable even private institutions to offer facilities for research. However, there will be limitation on the number of students per centre. The council also cleared proposals of first-time affiliation of colleges and of starting various sections in existing institutions.
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