Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)

Bengaluru, Dec 5: With the aim of bringing back the past charisma of diploma courses, the government has undertaken an exercise to exhaustively modify the curriculum and the appearance of the diploma courses. By presenting the course in a totally refined avatar, the government wants to provide for the students of these courses to bag jobs based on the certificates issued every year, and to include skills in the curriculum to meet the expectations of the industry and business.

Deputy chief minister Dr C N Ashwath Narayan, who also happens to be the minister for higher education, giving details at a press conference, noted that the curriculum of the existing diploma courses is not relevant to the present times. He said this course has become irrelevant to the needs of the industry. Therefore, the government wants to modify the courses to make the student skilled and include things which have demand in the employment market, and make the courses capable of enabling candidates to bag jobs at any time.

He said that every year, 40,000 students pass the final year, and even 20 percent among them are not getting jobs. He said that the very face of the course will be changed to enable the students to bag jobs on the bases of the second or third year of the course.