By Team Mangalorean

MANGALORE, August 24, 2007: The fruits of the autonomous concept of university education have started appearing on the horizon. This was evident in the first Academic Council meeting of the autonomous St. Aloysius College where the council has proposed to begin new innovative courses including in the post graduate level and also expanding the existing facilities at the undergraduate level.

Prof. Swebert D’Silva on this occasion emphasised on the need to hone professional techniques in approach in teaching the innovative courses and absorption of the information flow. The proposed new courses will be studied by a panel of experts who will also review the course from time to time.

 The meeting accepted the proposals to begin from next academic year innovative courses like M.Com in Applied Finance, M.A. in Economics, MSc. in Mathematics, Genetics and M.A. in Journalism. The council also accepted the proposal to begin additional batches in BCA, B.Com and BBM.

Demarcating the need for these courses Registrar of the College A.M. Narahari told that the it was important to make the students 'employable' in the job market or even to make them fit for taking up independent research into the new age subjects.  The first meeting of the Academic Council of the College was attended by 47 members drawn from different educational institutions, trade bodies and individual academicians and educationists. The meeting was presided over by the Principal of the College Swebert D’Silva.

 Principal of the St. Joseph’s College Ambrose Pinto, Dean of the Kasturba Medical College C.V. Raghuveer, Former Vice Chancellor of Kannur University Abdul Rehman, Senior faculty from National Institute of Technology Robert D’Souza, Patrick Tauro and representatives from Mangalore University  Prof. G.V. Joshi, Fakeerappa and Abdul Khader were present.  President of the Kanara Chamber of Commerce and Industry John Prasad Menezes was also present.