In a major experiment with technical education, the Tamil Nadu government has decided to introduce Bachelors of Engineering (BE) course in the civil and mechanical disciplines in the Tamil medium also in 15 constituent colleges of the four Anna Universities. The state would create an additional cumulative 1,800 seats in these institutions to accommodate students who prefer to study BE in Tamil medium.
Announcing this on Wednesday, higher education minister K Ponmudy made it clear that students would have the option of joining BE in the Tamil or English medium in these select institutions. “There will be no compulsion for students to join Tamil medium courses. Since mathematics, physics and chemistry are the basis for civil and mechanical engineering courses, it would be easy to introduce them in Tamil on an experimental basis for the first year students alone,” he said. A similar initiative would be launched in the polytechnics too.
Quite expectedly, the move, although a pilot project, has taken a section of academia by surprise and left many wondering if adequate brainstorming was done on the implications, particularly on the employability of engineers graduating in Tamil. Just last week, Ponmudy had said there could be no second opinion on introducing Tamil as a medium of instruction in technical and medical education.
Source : http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/TN-to-experiment-with-engineering-courses-in-Tamil/articleshow/5614006.cms
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