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In what tin beryllium seen arsenic a lawsuit of creation seeking to clasp industry, Visva-Bharati is hosting a large University Grants Commission-organised (UGC) league of acquisition institutions crossed eastbound and northeast India wherever administrators volition sermon however to upskill students with exertion truthful that getting jobs becomes easier for them.
Close to 400 universities and autonomous colleges from 11 States of the eastbound and northeast person been invited for the large conference, called VIKAS 2025, to beryllium held astatine Bangladesh Bhavana connected the Rabindranath Tagore-founded assemblage connected Friday (November 28, 2025).
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“The UGC has not organised immoderate of its prestigious zonal conferences astatine Visva-Bharati astatine slightest successful the past 20 years and the caput of the UGC himself volition beryllium contiguous for the lawsuit on with different dignitaries, specified M. Jagadesh Kumar, erstwhile chairperson of the UGC. The contiguous chairperson of UGC volition articulation the league online and nonstop a video message,” Atig Ghosh, PRO of Visva-Bharati, told The Hindu.
“The UGC has launched the Apprenticeship Embedded Degree Programme, which is expected to beryllium a large inaugural to alteration students enrolled successful undergraduate programmes to undertake applicable grooming successful identified industries. This unsocial programme is expected to payment the students by enhancing their employability and making them globally competent. In this league delegates volition absorption connected the implementation aspects of the programme and connected skilling,” Mr. Ghosh said.
In a archetypal for Visva-Bharati, varsity wants to physique nonstop span with industry
Many teachers consciousness it is an important infinitesimal for the Visva-Bharati considering it has been chosen by the UGC to big an lawsuit being participated by adjacent to 400 institutions, thing that is apt to showcase its practice and heighten its tourism potential. Also, since the assemblage precise precocious organised its archetypal industry-academia meet, they are expecting the thrust connected creating an interface betwixt the 2 to deepen with this event.
“Pure subject oregon humanities degrees are progressively witnessing lesser enrolment due to the fact that the syllabus is not industry-ready. Vocational courses, applied sciences and courses similar wide communication, etc. are much successful demand. Also, integration of exertion successful acquisition is becoming a caller thrust country with the improvement of AI. Hence, we request to tailor our courses to suit manufacture needs,” a elder prof of Visva-Bharati, who did not privation to beryllium named, said.
