VTU to promote e-learning to curb tuition menace

VTU to promote e-learning to curb tuition menace
The Hindu

Satellite-based system to be used

DHARWAD: The Visvesvaraya Technological University plans to arrange for lectures through internet and satellite systems to combat the menace of private tuitions.

Vice-Chancellor K. Balaveera Reddy told presspersons here on Sunday that tuitions had assumed menacing proportions and the university planned to arrange for lectures by experienced teachers.

Mr. Reddy was inaugurating a two-day workshop on mathematics arranged under the auspices of the SDM College of Engineering and Technology.

Online examination

Mr. Reddy said the university ranked third in the country and first in the State among the universities that had online instructions and examination system.

It had already conducted two examinations.

Mr. Reddy said the study of mathematics is crucial for technological and industrial progress.

Without mathematics, technology would not have grown.

While some teachers came prepared for classes, there were many who came to classes unprepared.

The new system will fill the gap in the instructional levels and help students prepare well, he said.

SDM Educational Society Vice-President Surendra Kumar presided over the programme. M.N. Bujurki of the Postgraduate Department of Mathematics of Karnatak University was felicitated by SDM Education Society Secretary N. Vajrakumar.

The former Vice-Chancellor of Gulbarga University, Dr. Rudraiah, was the chief guest.