Academic Architecture
3.0 Some principles which determine the architecture and guide future changes

1. The predictable business plan as practised in the past and as visualised for the future clearly indicates that the plan targets the following four kinds of inputs to the educational system.
-- Those who have completed PUSRC
-- Those who have completed PUJRC
-- Those who are enrolled in a college for BD and NIIT rules provide simultaneous pursuit of semester studies along with BD under the DQS.
-- Those who have already completed BD and come in a sequential mode (SS) (unlike DQS) to enroll in semester structure.

2. Clearly, such wide variety while fully justified and amenable to business strategy, does not immediately lend itself to a predictable academic pattern. This issue has been overcome by creating two domains, one primarily based on PUJRC and the other based on PUSRC and the two combinations with BD.

3. Admission to either Domain with qualifications higher than the prescribed minimum will not warrant any exemption from any prescribed semester(s) of the programmes of studies. In the same context, it is important to remember that no two semesters prescribed in the programme can be taken together in order to achieve reduction in total duration of the programme. Similarly, duration of a semester can not be lower than prescribed (vide section 2.2).

4. The challenge before the educational planner is to provide customised inviolate academic structure to ensure that there is no loss of transparency and understanding. The challenge is further to generalise from the NIIT experience a model which ultimately encompasses the trend in higher education which is market oriented and is fully devoted to the academic principles.

5. A concept of fair deal imposes an obligation to ensure that neither the business objective nor the educational objective work at cross purpose. The key to the success of this innovative approach is the full understanding and comprehension of the duality that a knowledge industry has to maintain.

6. Since the academic enunciation of the system has wisely decided on two domains it is important in a day to day operation the rules of each domain must remain sovereign and self-functioning.

7. Wisdom requires that full or workable treatment of any situation which might develop in future is spelt out. Therefore, a concept of a posteriori treatment is enunciated and spelt out later in this note (vide section 4.5).