The new Vice-Chancellor of Madurai Kamaraj University, J. Kumar, is mulling introducing an academic bank of credits (ABC) to support students taking courses across institutions.
“The university has many affiliated colleges in the city. So, if possible, we can quickly try to support students who wish to take one course in one institution and carry the credit on to ABC and then, at a convenient time, take another course from another institution. It will take some time as there is a process to go through like the academic council,” he says.
He wants to promote a degree in Fine Arts as is being done by Ashoka University. “If a student joining BA literature believes it has to be clubbed with commerce or economics, he or she can take a course and then accordingly take total credits and thereby claim a degree in BA Fine Arts,” he says.
