Hyderabad, March 14: The government on Saturday set up a committee of Vice Chancellors to study Common Entrance Test for admission into professional courses and optimum utilisation of the infrastructure in universities.
HRD Minister Kapil Sibal constituted the committee, consisting of seven Vice Chancellors, at a meeting here. The committee would also suggest ways for migration of students from one university to another.
The government is considering holding a national-level entrance test for admission into courses like medicine and engineering, commerce and economics. The committee will examine the possibility of such tests and suggests modalities.
Sibal, who presided the meeting of Vice Chancellors of CUs at Hyderabad Central University, said the infrastructure in the existing universities remain unutilised after the class hour.
Such facilities could be put to use for education, training and skill-development and also courses can be started under public-private-partnership to maximise the use of assets by the institutes, Sibal said.
If some universities teach only morning classes in some subjects, the assets of the university are lying waste for rest of the time. So universities should devise their own plan to utilise the assets to the maximum and they can use the money for university development, he said.
The minister said the committee will meet every four months to clear bottleneck if any. The idea is to give greater autonomy to the universities, he told reporters.
-PTI