NE NEWS SERVICE
VISAKHAPATNAM, DEC 14
Stating that job-ready graduates of engineering, commerce, arts and other disciplines will enhance the employability of students when they step out of the campus and also to address the complaints of industries that the country lack competent job-seekers, Andhra Pradesh Government is mulling to introduce one-year job training course along with the under-graduate courses, said Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy here on Friday.
Addressing the Andhra University Alumni Association meet, the Chief Minister said that the curriculum would be drafted to add one more year to the Bachelor’s Degree by giving job orientation course in the final year, to enable the youths become jobready and employable.
`’We can call it B.Com Honors or B. Tech Honors and the extra year will be dedicated for a practical course that would be useful in employment, and the concerned departments are working in preparing the curriculum,’’ Jagan said.
He also appealed to the alumni, which included Grandhi Mallikharjuna Rao of the GMR group to be proactive and follow the adage learn, earn and return.
The Government is committed to revamp the education system through reforms and the 45,000 schools would be provided with basic amenities in three years.
In the first phase 15,000 schools would be revamped at a cost of Rs 3,650 crores. English medium will be introduced from primary level from next academic year and in four years the students will be writing board exam in English medium.
“Changing the education system is my dream and I am very much concerned with low level of enrollment ratio among BRICS nations’’, he said.
As a lamp spreads light in the entire room, educating one child will change the fortunes of a family, he said.
The Chief Minister also expressed concern over the 459 vacancies not being filled in the University. The University has the potential to be among the top five places, he said and recalled the services of great personalities like Dr Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan and Kattamanchi Ramalinga Reddy who served as Vice Chancellors.
