There is good news for the students of
Sikkim now for one doesn't need to go outside the state for
higher studies as the state is building its own world class
university.
The Sikkim University, as it is called has already started
its academic session by introducing some courses from this
month and the varsity is changing the entire syllabus to foster
the students with more capability.
“This will be a world class university as we have brought
university experts from over the world to design the best
syllabus,” claimed Mr Mahindra P Lama vice chancellor
of the University. “The university will be interdisciplinary
as any students can attend any other class beyond his subjects.
For example, physics students can attend commerce classes
and vice-versa and it will be called non-credit course”
he added.
The academic processes will be divided into three different
multidisciplinary learning courses including traditional,
non-traditional and policy studies. “Traditional goes
with regular streams like science, commerce and humanities;
non-traditional is the studies of global warming, military
science, air space etc and policy studies includes reports
of Nathu La, glacier melting, policy analysis and many other
current issues,” said Mr Lama. “This will not
only give degree certificate but the students will have degree
plus certificate after they pass out from the university”
he added.
The university is inviting all the big colleges and universities
from over the world including engineering, MBBS and management
universities. There will be different study centres in the
university like centre for globalisation studies, centre for
neighbour studies and centre for international relation studies.
This will be the first university in the country to start
semester system which means a student will have to face six
exams in a year and students have to obtained above 80- percentage
in exams while admission in the university.
“Initially, we are giving admission to those students
who has obtained above 45 percentage in their higher sec
ondary level instead 33-percentage and later we will raise
the percentage rate to strengthen the students,” said
Mr Lama.
“The evaluation system will be fully computerised so
that no student can manipulate the teacher or examiner and
the main idea behind such stricture is to boost our students
more who can face any challenge in their life even after studies
are over,” he added.
When asked about the fee structure of the, Mr Lama said: "We
have subsidised fee rates for the poor students and 20 percent
of the fees collected from the rich students will be diverted
to the poor students so that they too can study in the university.
“We also have a flexible donation system so that any
big multinational company can come forward to donate money
for the university or they can even build anything for the
university like a basketball court or playground,” he
added.
The upcoming university has already bought 312 acres of land
at Yang-yang in South district about 70 km from Gangtok and
the university will have all the facilities inside the campus.
The university will have their own hospitals, shopping complex,
radio station, media centre, theatre hall inside the campus
so that students don't need to go out of the campus for anything.
Once it gets completed it would not only serve the students
from neighbouring places like Darjeeling, Kalimpong, Siliguri
and Doors, but will cater to the needs of students from all
the neighbouring countries Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Burma,
Sri Lanka, Pakistan.
Courtesy: The Statesman |
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