Cluster system in 9 degree colleges from this year: Navin Mittal

Hyderabad: Starting this year, a cluster system that facilitates mobility of students and faculty from one institution to another would be implemented by the Telangana Higher Education department in nine autonomous degree colleges in the city, Commissioner of Technical and Collegiate Education Navin Mittal said here on Wednesday. Addressing the inaugural event of Telangana Future […]

Hyderabad: Starting this year, a cluster system that facilitates mobility of students and faculty from one institution to another would be implemented by the Telangana Higher Education department in nine autonomous degree colleges in the city, Commissioner of Technical and Collegiate Education Navin Mittal said here on Wednesday.

Addressing the inaugural event of Telangana Future Education Summit 2021 jointly organised by the Indian Chamber of Commerce and Commissionerate of Collegiate Education, Mittal said, a Bachelor of Arts in History, Economics and Political Science student of one institution, for instance, can pursue a Psychology or Mass Communication course being offered by another institution or vice-versa as part of the system.

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Credits allotted to a particular course would be transferred on completion. Similarly, the teaching faculty can also be exchanged between the colleges in the cluster system, he said, adding that the new system will be implemented for second year degree students in the identified colleges.

According to Mittal, the system would also facilitate pooling or sharing of resources such as libraries, infrastructure, best practices and other human resources.

Indian Chamber of Commerce, Food and Agro Experts Committee Southern Region chairman, Dr. GBK Rao said there were 221 higher educational institutions in Telangana under the State government. Leaving medical colleges, there was a need to form a minimum of 50 clusters (each with 4-5 colleges) consisting of autonomous cluster colleges and universities in the State, he said.

Prof. R Limbadri, chairman, Telangana State Council of Higher Education (TSCHE), Naveen Madishetty, Regional Head, Indian Chamber of Commerce, Prof Mahul Brahma, Dean School of Media and Communication, Adams University, Dr. Chandan Chowdhury, Senior Associate Dean, Indian School of Business, and Prof. BS Murty, Director, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad among others participated in the event.

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