Come July 1 and St. Xavier’s College will start functioning as an autonomous institution. Just how euphoric is the college to be freed from government clutches can be gauged from the unbridled enthusiasm with which it plans to forthwith start new courses. Plans are afoot to offer unique courses in mass communication and film studies, in addition to post-graduate courses in bioscience and physics starting from undergraduate levels.
St. Xavier’s has 6-acres land on the eastern fringes of the city which will be developed into a new campus by 2010. Father Mathew, the Principal, is upbeat. Not without reason. For the first time in nearly 3 decades, the shackles which had bound Bengal’s higher education to utter mediocrity and chaotic misjudgment is finally being loosened.
It goes to St. Xavier’s credit that it’s loosing no time to leapfrog into an institute of reckoning. There is no doubt that this glorious seat of education will churn out students of merit in times to come.
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