Autonomous colleges in the same vicinity will soon allow students to choose from a basket of courses and enable transfer of credits among them. For instance, a student from Jai Hind College will be able to choose a course from St Xaviers and earn credits and vice versa.
In a workshop with close to 150 autonomous colleges in the state, Chandrakant Patil, minister of higher and technical Education, even mooted the idea of vertical Growth in case leading colleges want to expand and are falling short of space for the implementation of the National Education Policy (NEP).
The state also plans to launch a portal offering massive open online courses (MOOCs) on the lines of Swayam, called MahaSwayam. Autonomous colleges can share their content online for other colleges and can also upload specialised courses and possibly earn revenue through it, suggested the minister, said a principal, who attended the workshop at SNDT Womens University.