By Manjima Dhakal
Kathmandu, Nov 18: Tribhuvan University (TU) has planned to revise its courses to produce human resources according to the demands in the market.
Under the initiation of newly appointed vice-chancellor Dharma Kanta Baskota, TU is set to revise several courses.
Planning Division at TU has asked the Planning Commission about the requirement of manpower for every discipline, Dharma Kanta Baskota, VC of TU told The Rising Nepal.
TU will fix the quotas for many courses after the Planning Commission will send the required number of manpower at the national level, Baskota said.
After setting of relevant courses according to the market demand the problem of unemployment and shortage, the number of required manpower may go down, Baskota said.
TU has planned introducing the courses on tunnel engineering and mine engineering as the country has initiated works regarding the tunnel and mine engineering, he added.
“Though courses of history appears to be useless, but if we connect the subject with research it can be fruitful for the country and graduates too.”
TU has already taken its step for garnering changes. Therefore, public can feel the changes in TU during his tenure, Baskota said.
Ridish Kumar Pokharel, Planning Division Head of Tribhuvan University, said though TU has enrolled limited students by fixing the quotas for technical streams, it has been enrolling unlimited students in many of general subjects.
TU has thus been asking for the required manpower for the nation to maintain the quality of education.
According to Pokharel, TU has also planned to revise some subject courses by adding values to these courses to lure students.
Besides, TU will close any course if the course has less than 10 students enrolled, Pokharel said.
Likewise, TU has been providing projector and power point facilities to its campuses with a target to remove board and marker from class rooms, he said.
Adding up information technology in all classes simultaneously is not possible because of lack of funds and grants. TU has been adding information technology at least to two campuses.
Meanwhile, to boost the quality of teachers through researches, TU has established a Rs. 150 million fund to granting research programmes for teachers.
According to Pokharel, a large project of researches could run from the project and the finding of the researches could contribute for policy making of the state. But, TU is yet call for research programmes from the set up fund.