The Kerala chief minister, Pinarayi Vijayan launched a four-year courses program in all universities of the state on Monday. It has been said that this will bring landmark changes in higher education sector of state and also worldwide going through notable changes. The Minister informed that traditional ways of learning have changed. The place where skills are developed, employment training is done and knowledge is generated from is the higher education sector.
According to him, the undergraduate courses and curricula of the state have been redesigned as a response to these changes taking place in the higher education sector of the world which was a top most priority for the state.
He further said that with these new reforms it would make greater changes in content and structure of country’s higher education sector that was once confined to study at university campuses.
As he pointed out this new four-year undergraduate programme will equally emphasize different areas including online platforms, practical training and field trips among others.
Vijayan made these remarks while launching the scheme at Government Women’s College, Trivandrum
“Today we live at an era when there is greater change in our knowledge and employment landscape. This will mainly be reflected in higher education,” he said.
Veteran left leader further explained that revised curriculum and syllabus would be characterized by two-pronged strategy where knowledge generation gets equal importance as skill development.
One key feature of this program according to him is students can design their own courses and syllabi.
The current changes are mostly seen through teaching methods, learning styles, assessment processes. The next step should be restructuring existing programs,” he argued
In addition to revising curricula and reforming programmes, Vijayan added that his government attaches equal importance to infrastructure development.
Education reform whose cardinal principle is student freedom.
