As per the latest announcement made by the Tamil Nadu Higher Education Minister K Ponmudi, the final year engineering students in-state will now be taught foreign languages as a part of their course curriculum for the academic session 2021-2022.
Tamil Nadu State Higher Education Minister made the announcement in order to offer fair opportunities to engineering students for research. By adding foreign languages as a part of the course curriculum of students, they will be offered with better employment opportunities abroad.
In accordance with the statement made by the Education Minister on August 26, 2021, languages like German, Japanese, Chinese, Russian and French will be added to the course curriculum of final year engineering.
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The changes will be made from the upcoming academic session 2021-2022 in various government and aided engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu state.
Tamil Nadu state will now offer diploma courses in civil and mechanical engineering and further streams will be introduced in the future. Adding to the same he said, “Diploma courses in Tamil medium will be introduced in civil and mechanical engineering streams".
Additionally, the Tamil Nadu Government and Aided Engineering Colleges will offer various women-friendly diplomas and short-term courses from the next academic session.
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The courses will be introduced in the field of interior decoration, office management, and computer applications, web designing, CAD, bio-medical electronics, and ECG among others.
The main aim to add more women-friendly courses in the curriculum is to motivate and increase women's enrollment in the colleges in Tamil Nadu state. With this initiative, women will be offered with better employment opportunities, he added.
"Steps will be taken to permit lateral entry to B.Com (second year) for the students who have completed a diploma in commercial practice and diploma in commercial and computer practice" , the Education Minister further added.
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