Media Release
Mangaluru, Jun 4: With the mission of transforming society by creating innovators, Srinivas University (SU), here, announced a new higher education model with enhanced skills and research components to produce outstanding graduates at Bachelor and Master’s Degree Level from the academic year 2021-22.
This new model will create employable graduates to industries and innovative entrepreneurs to society and hence is expected to make a breakthrough in the higher education system. The vice-chancellor of Srinivas University, Mangaluru, Dr P S Aithal announced that SU has planned to offer a new model of higher education from the next academic year for integrated development of students at Bachelor degree and Masters degree levels with enhanced industry-based skills components and research-based innovative knowledge creation components.
SU Unique Student Excellence Model:
Amidst the Corona pandemic, to counter the recent hue and cry of the Indian Education system's utter failure of creating employable and independent thinking students, Srinivas University is now equipped with Srinivas integrated student development model with a new structure of curriculum consisting of overall 50% knowledge focus, 25% skills focus and 25% research focus to unfold the hidden potentials of the students and to create them as innovators.
With UG & PG study opportunities, Srinivas University has now completely used its autonomy to create an innovative student-centric all-round development model called the Student Integrated Development Model that consists of four parts called SU Student Integrated Curricular Model with STEAM focus, SU Student Integrated Support Model with 360-degree nurturing, SU Student Competency-Based Evaluation Model and SU Student Enjoyment Through Teamwork Model. Inculcating core values in line with Indian traditions, affordable fees with bank education loan facilities, and super-specialty programmes with optional internship and apprenticeship in association with relevant industries are additional attractions of this model.
Integrated student development framework consists of future industry and society requirement focused education model with specially designed eight components: (1) More credits to accommodate new inventions (2) STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts & Design, and Mathematics) designed subjects (3) Embedded ESEP (Employability and Entrepreneurship Skill Enhancement programs) in every semester (4) IPR (Intellectual Property Right) awareness for every one (5) Enhancing Experimental learning (EL) (6) Integrated projects, internship and apprenticeships (7) Compulsory patent filing or publication with copyright for every student through faculty support and (8) Student networking with co-curricular and extracurricular activities for students' enjoyment and immersed campus experience.
Srinivas University also committed to its students to convert them as ideal citizens to the country by embedding its 12 core values that include: (1) Teamwork, (2) Self and mutual respect (3) Responsibility (4) Ethics (5) Etiquette (6) Social Service (7) Communication, character and competency (8) Techno-savvy and scientific thinking (9) Quest for excellence (10) Continuous improvement (11) Promotion of open-access software and publications (12) Continuous, life-long learning and contribution.
Srinivas University has developed an innovative service model in higher education to attain service excellence called the STAR model with four ingredients: (1) Students: Focus on values, knowledge, skills, experience and innovations (2) Teachers: Focus on updating the knowledge and new skills (3) Academics and governance: Focus on excellence in education service and (4) Research and extension: New knowledge creation through research focus.
It is believed that these efforts create innovators for present and future industries using autonomy provided through the new National Education Policy 2020 with interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary and holistic higher education to offer Samagra Gnana (comprehensive knowledge) to every aspirant.