VC of Malayalam University intends to have a fully digital varsity

Updated on: Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Vice chancellor of the newly formed Thunchathu Ezhuthachan Malayalam University, K Jayakumar said that he intended to make the new university a fully digital varsity.

Speaking after receiving the National Education Awards instituted by the New Delhi based Chamber of Education at the Calicut University on Monday, he said that the excessive number of non-teaching posts and numerous administrative staff were a huge burden on the varsities in the state.

"The Malayalam University will be different from the other varsities in the state and will not have more than 50 non-teaching staff," he said.

In a lighter vein, he said that he was currently a vice chancellor without an university, like the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat who was a head of a state without a state.

Jayakumar said that universities in the state should aim to be centres of life long learning instead of being just centres of teaching.

Earlier, Calicut University vice chancellor Dr M Abdul Salam presented the award. Head of the department of education Dr K P Meera presided over the function.

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