Recommendations on syllabi finalised

CHANDIGARH, Dec 8: Delegates at the two-day UGC Curricula Development Centre Workshop, which was held at the Centre for Advanced Studies CAS in Geology Department, Panjab University, today finalised their recommendations for evolving a uniform syllabi for undergraduate and post-graduate courses in geo-sciences across the country.

The delegates recommended that 8220;syllabi should be framed keeping in view the employment opportunities and needs of the nation8221;, according to CAS director R. S. Chaudhri. Other recommendations included treating geology and geo-physics as professional courses and introducing geo-science at the plus two stage.

8220;Another first time recommendation is that UGC should constitute a committee to examine the opening of new departments on earth sciences, as the exodus of students with a degree in geo-science would result in unemployment and frustration,8221; Chaudhri revealed. The workshop would be followed by one in Jaipur, the last in the series of four, following which a uniform code would be evolved, sources said. It is mandatory for universities all over the country to adopt 80 per cent of the curricula developed as a result of these workshops, they added.