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Bangalore:- Central University of Karnataka will soon have a curriculum of international standards, besides teachers from other countries.

University Grants Commission (UGC) has asked central universities to hire teachers from outside the country for a year or two. "In view of this, we visited three universities in Canada, from where we will take inputs for designing curriculum for courses like MBA, M Com, etc. In course of time, there'll be a faculty exchange programme," Central University vice-chancellor A M Pathan said on Monday.

To start with, faculty from the Central University will visit universities abroad. "We are working on developing the infrastructure. Once that is done, we will have faculty from abroad too. At a later stage, there will be a student exchange programme," he said.

Infrastructure will be upgraded by next July and the campus is expected to be ready by 2012. The university is also trying to provide hostel facilities for students within the campus, the V-C said.

Recruitment of non-teaching staff in the first phase has been completed. Teaching posts sanctioned by UGC have already been notified and the recruitment process is under way.

Five UG honours programmes and one PG course have been already launched. Four more PG programmes - MBA, M Com, MA (Kannada), Literature and culture, and MSc (geo-spatial application in regional development) - have been approved.

According to the V-C, there is continuous internal assessment and development of curricular contents and establishment of inter-disciplinary doctoral and post-doctoral programmes leading to PhD and post-doctoral research.

Students are also taken on trips to institutions of national importance and reputed universities both within and outside Karnataka. Students of MA English and M Phil were sent for training in the language labs of English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, British Council and University of Hyderabad.

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