Kancheepuram varsity signs pact with BITS for student exchange

• SCSVMV University (Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi Viswa Mahavidyala) in Kancheepuram has recently signed a memorandum of understanding with BITS Pilani for student exchange and co-operation in several areas including management studies and engineering.

• By this agreement SCSVMV would in turn help BITS Pilani with Sanskrit studies. This would also allow transfer of credit from one university to another.

• In another student-friendly imitative, the university had decided to allow students to seek courses from other faculties.

• For instance, MBA students can take up studies on environment or Ayurveda or any other soft core courses and the credits for these would be transferred to them.

• The university now had plans to start several centres including one for studies on Adi Sankara’s and Sri Aurobindo’s thoughts, study on energy studies, a centre for Women’s studies, rural development programmes and study of Indian Diaspora in South and South East Asia.

The Hindu dd 27/07/09