Mangaluru, Dec 24: Mangalore University Vice-Chancellor Prof P S Yadapadithaya on Thursday said that the statute will be amended to recognise eligible affiliated Colleges in the jurisdiction as Research centers.
Addressing Academic Council members, he said that Alva’s, Poornaprajna College, M V Shetty College and others have submitted applications to be recognised as Research Centres by the University.
As per the present statute, only Laboratories of all-India nature or other institutions maintained by the Government of India where research work is being carried out and research institutions maintained by state government /quasi-government/autonomous institutions recognised by the government can be recognised as Research Centres.
He said that till the amendment to statute gets approval from the Governor, who is also the Chancellor of the University, the Deans will be asked to prepare guidelines for Research Centres. A professor, who carries out research activities and has many publications to his credit, needs to be recognised as a research guide as well, he added.
He said that there is a need to promote research activities as Phd qualification will be mandatory for teaching faculty to get selected in colleges after 2021.
Prof Yadapadithya said that a five-year integrated course in Electronics will be introduced frp,next academic year. The syllabus for the third, fourth and fifth Semester for the course has been approved in the Academic Council.
The Academic Council has given permission to admit students who had passed two-year visual arts foundation course, offered by Kannada University in Hampi, for the Bachelor of Visual Arts course offered by Mangalore University. The University has decided to consider a two-year course equivalent to a PU course offered by the government.
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