The varsity will also maintain uniformity in the academic calendar so that teaching and examination system on semester patterns are synchronized in all post-graduate courses.
Furthermore, the council approved a proposal to ensure some inter-disciplinary element in all the post-graduate courses so that students may get an opportunity to study courses other than their main discipline.
The varsity also constituted a Reforms Committee to review and re-organise post-graduate courses and research.
"In principal, all these things have been passed but we have to work out all the details. We will try and get it implemented before the next academic session. The inter-disciplinary concept is a major step forward. It has been approved by the Academic Council but it has to be implemented systematically.
The modalities of things like a common academic calendar have to be worked out by all the departments. The key is implementation," said an Academic Council member.
As per a Reforms Committee report, "Each Department Council would form a judgment and spell out the details about allowing students to choose courses in other subjects. This needs to be reciprocally worked out with the collaborating departments. We could think in terms of enabling students at the M.A./M.Sc. level to choose, say, 20 per cent of their course offerings which could be in related subjects or fields."
The Committee has scheduled the first semester to be held from July 16 to November 30 and the second from December 1 to April 30.
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