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A Quick Record of the College

1 of the first sixteen Universities in India, the University of Kerala was started as the College of Travancore in the erstwhile princely state of Travancore (now southern element of Kerala and some neighbouring areas of state of Tamilnadu) in 1937. Throughout the 7 decades considering that the University of Kerala grew and shrunk physically and transformed alone in a lot of approaches. It is tough to summarise what the Kerala University is in a brief room.

The earliest origins of the College may possibly be traced back to two institutions of present day mastering in Kerala, the University Higher education, Thiruvananthapuram and the Trivandrum Observatory. The College University was initially launched as the Maharajaâs Totally free College by Maharaja Swathi Thirunal in 1834, with Mr John Roberts. A Christian Missonary as Headmaster, and before long grew into a higher education in 1866, affiliated to the Madras University. When the College of Travancore was launched, the Departments of the school became the College Departments, only to change back again yet again when the transformation to University of Kerala transpired in 1957. The University School still retains its relationship with the College as an affiliated higher education. The Trivandrum Observatory was launched in 1838 and had an internationally reputed scientist, John Caldecott FRS as its very first Director. It grew to become a part of the Travancore University, but for some time was administered as a unbiased governing administration institution. It is now the oldest establishment below the Kerala University.

The College of Travancore was founded in 1937 by a promulgation of the Maharajah of Travancore, Sri Chithira Thirunal Balarama Varma who was also the very first Chancellor of the College. Sir Do. P Ramaswamy Ayyar, the then Diwan (Primary minister) of the State was the very first Vice-Chancellor. He was an eminent scholar and an able administrator. It is explained the Authorities manufactured an unsuccessful try to invite Albert Einstein to be the initial Vice-Chancellor. The University was modelled immediately after the finest Colleges of the United Kingdom, and even these days retains some of these attributes. The affiliating program of the University however developed to be diverse from the college program in British Colleges.

Campuses

Only ten colleges inside of the State of Travancore, which were at that time affiliated to the Madras University, became the affiliated schools of the College of Travancore. In 1954, the unified state of Kerala came into being with most of Travancore and whole of state of Cochin and Malabar location of Madras presidency turning out to be part of it. The Kerala College Act (Act 14 of 1957) was introduced into pressure and the College of Travancore was renamed University of Kerala. The College experienced a few campuses found in a few diverse areas of the State viz. Thiruvananthapuram, Ernakulam and Kozhikode. The amount of affiliated colleges grew phenomenally. Nonetheless, in 1968, the University Centre at Kozhikode became a entire-fledged University, the College of Calicut, affiliating the schools located in Thrissur, Palakkad, Kozhikode and Kannur districts of Kerala and transforming the Kozhikkode Centre into University Departments. The Cochin University of Science and Technologies â CUSAT -- (1971), Kerala Agricultural University (1971) and Mahatma Gandhi University (1983) had been subsequently proven, with CUSAT having above the Universityâs centre at Cochin. These developments have shrunk the jurisdiction of the College of Kerala to Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Alappuzha Districts and some components of Pathanamthitta District.

At current, the University has sixteen faculties and forty one particular departments of educating and analysis in addition to examine centres and other departments. Training, Analysis and Information extension are the mandate of the Departments. They mostly concentrate on publish-graduate (masters) programmes, MPhil programmes (one-yr research diploma) and doctoral investigation. In 2007, the University awarded more than one hundred PhDs. (Universityâs analysis routines are also likely on in choose affiliated colleges and other recognised research centres in and outside the house the state). The College has had in its schools eminent scholars who were skilled under famous figures (Sir C V Ramanâs college student in Dept of Physics, Prof S R Ranganathanâs college student in Library Science and Prof Benjamin Bloomâs pupil in Dept of Schooling). Some of the faculty members by themselves ended up legends, this sort of as famous poet K Ayyappa Panciker, Oriental scholar T Ganapathi Sasthri etc. The whole amount of full-time scholars in the College Departments is over 2000 such as investigation scholars and a modest variety of overseas college students. The Institute of Distance Training delivers a quantity of below-graduate and publish graduate programmes which cater to a lot more than 7000 students, all above the region and overseas.

The College has also a number of research centres in specialised areas this sort of as Nano-technologies, Kerala Scientific studies, Bioinformatics, Womens Reports, Learning Issues, Sree Narayana Studies, Gandhian Scientific studies and so on. Some of these centres have taught programmes (Certificate/Diploma/Masters/Mphil) and a lot of provide PhD programmes. The College has also proven ten College College of Trainer Education and learning (UTEC) and 8 College Institute of Systems (UIT) both of which supply below-graduate programmes (Bed in UTECs and BSc Computer Science/IT, Electronics/BBA in UITs), despite the fact that masters programmes are accessible in select UITs. The College School of Engineering at Karyavattom delivers Engineering Schooling at Undergraduate degree. These organizations with each other have student strength of a lot more than 5000.

The University has in excess of a hundred and fifty affiliated schools. The part of the University is in prescribing programs of review and conducting examinations and issuing certificates. The day-to-day administration of these organizations is not beneath the purview of the University. However, these organizations sort a main part of the University. Of these sixty are Arts and Science colleges. There are 2 Regulation schools, 17 Engineering Faculties, nine MBA/MCA Schools, 37 Teacher Instruction Colleges, 4 Health-related Faculties, four Ayurveda schools, 2 Homeopathy Faculties, one particular Siddha Health care University, three Dental colleges, ten Nursing Colleges, 4 Pharmacy Faculties, two Great Arts Colleges, and a Audio College. The University also has a Nationwide University of Bodily Schooling affiliated to it. The whole variety of students in these schools crosses 84,000.

The College follows the Choice primarily based credit and semester technique for all submit-graduate (masters) programmes and is in the method of introducing this at beneath-graduate (bachelors) level. Semesters normally fall for the duration of the months of Aug-January and February-July.

The College has a quite democratic method of operating. Its supreme bodies â Senate and Academic Council have significant variety of elected members and pupils are represented in both. The govt physique of the University, the Syndicate also has a student representative in it (for the first time in Indian Colleges, in 1977). The College policies are aimed at college student empowerment in each and every subject. The College Union is an energetic existence in the College daily life considering that 1939. To serve the students who are absent from the head-quarters at Trivandrum, College Study Centres have been set up with UGC support, at Kollam, Alappuzha and Pandalam. Aside from these, there are thirteen Taluk Info Centres. The College also materials information to college students via the Assist-desks in affiliated faculties. The Co-ordinator of the Countrywide Services Scheme Programme and the Director of the Student Companies arrange youth welfare pursuits with the lively co-procedure of the University Studentsâ Union. The College bagged the Indira Gandhi National Award for the best NSS actions in 2005. Section of Bodily Training of the University nurtures athletics amid college students. It has gifted to the country outstanding sportsmen and girls. The University stadium in the heart of the city has a planet-class artificial monitor. The University has a Primary Library built in â¦â¦â¦â¦.design in close proximity to its town campus and caters to all scholars, personnel and general public. In addition to this Karyavattom campus has a Campus Library. Department libraries and Higher education libraries comprehensive the details support to college students.

In addition to Depts, Centres and Affiliated schools, the College has a amount of other institutions underneath it. The Educational Employees University set up with assist of the College Grants Commission, provides in-support classes to teachers in greater education and learning and has trained in excess of 15,000 teachers all over the nation. It has been continuously rated as the best in the region. The Centre for Adult & Continuing Training (CACEE) aims at âfurther training of the educatedâ for which it obtained UNESCO- NLM award for literacy in 2005. The Division of Publications, 1 of the oldest Departments of the University, has brought out many noteworthy publications which includes Saraswathi Kantabharanam, a treatise on Sanskrit Grammar, the five quantity Kerala Sahitya Charithram by Mahakavi Ulloor S. Parameswara Ayyar and Sahithya Nayakanmar (Gentlemen of Letters) Collection, Chitra Ramayana, based mostly on palm-leaf manuscripts and the latest  English and Malayalam translations of Hortus Malabaricus, the classical treatise on the plant wealth of Asia and the tropics. A huge Malayalam Lexicon is attempted by the Lexicon Dept. Seven volumes of the proposed eleven-volume Malayalam Lexicon have been launched so significantly and the editing work of the remaining 4 volumes is progressing. The University Computer Centre, which has a long historical past (back to the use of a Czech created Electro-Mechanical Computer system Arithma in nineteen fifties and Main-Memory based IBMs and Indian produced TDC in nineteen seventies), today spearheads the Universityâs e-Governance initiatives. Computing assistance for investigation is no lengthier centralised, with the arrival of cost-effective desk-top computing electricity. The Universityâs primary campus in Karyavattom is firmly linked to the cyber freeway with broad-band connection flowing into hundreds of computers. The college web website has also progressed considering that 2000 to become an indispensable cyber forum that connects the college community and serves info to all stake holders.

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