aurangabad appointment of principals in nongranted affiliated colleges disaffiliating institutes who do not have staff as per sanctioned number of posts for postgraduate sections are some of the tough measures dr babasaheb ambedkar marathwada university bamu has mooted as a part of its resolve for introducing the choicebased credit system cbcs from 201516 the university on wednesday held a meeting of deans of all faculties and members of board of studies from different steams to discuss the roadmap for implementing cbcs bamu vicechancellor b a chopade said that the system is must for preparing the students for competition at the global level teachers will have to play a crucial role in implementation of cbcs if we aim that our students develop an edge in todays global completion teachers should adapt to the system he said highlighting the directives from the university grants commission ugc for ensuring implementation of the cbcs from 201516 k v kale director of board of college and university development bcud of bamu who made a detailed presentation on the proposed roadmap for implementation of cbcs said the initiative would have to focus on admission criteria overall syllabus marking scheme and passing criteria the teachers and college authorities will have to understand what the cbcs means and respond to the proposed changes positively such positive outlook will be key towards successful implementation of the initiative he said kale also said workshop at each four districts namely beed osmanabad jalna and aurangabad coming under bamu jurisdiction would be held to share detail knowledge about the proposed system with teachers and college authorities advantages of cbcs respects learner autonomy allow learners to choose according to their own learning needs interest and aptitudes gives more flexibility to the learners by allowing them to choose interdisciplinary courses change majors programmes helps selfpaced learning learners may undertake as many credits as they can without having to repeat all the course in a given semester if they fail in one or more courses alternatively they can choose other courses and continue their studies represents a muchrequired shift in focus from teachercentric to learnercentric education since the workload estimated is based on the investment of time in learning not in teaching facilitates learners mobility giving opportunity to study at different time and place credits earned at one institution can be transferred to another source report of corecommittee of vicechancellors of universities of maharashtra