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The Higher Education Minister R Bindu has announced, in the Assembly, that the govt will set up 03 separate commissions. She informed that the preliminary work to set up these three commissions has started.

These commissions are

• a Higher Education Reforms Commission to suggest timely reforms and formulate future plans in the sector,

• a University Law Reforms Commission to support the govt in amending outdated varsity laws and

• an Exam Reforms Commission to recommend suggestions to reform the current exam system.

The government had also recommended the development of 30 inter-university centres as Centres of Excellence. A total of 07 inter-university centres located in 05 universities have been considered in the project's 1st phase, added Bindu.

The selected centres are: Inter University Centre for IPR Studies, the Inter University Centre for Space Sciences and International Commercial and Environmental Law (both in Cusat); the Institute of Intensive Research in Basic Sciences and Institute of Multidisciplinary Programme in Social Sciences (both in MG University); Inter University Centre for Renewable Energy (Kerala University) and Centre For Malabar Studies (Calicut University).

The Minister also informed that the govt was planning to launch an unified admission system for all state universities. Under the system, the students would be required to submit a single application form for all the universities and they will be granted admission on the basis of eligibility.