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Notes (ii) On the aspect of the Commercial Education, the Commission recommended that commercial
education should be made more practical and the graduates should be encouraged to
specialize in a particular branch. On the subject of Education, the faculty of training colleges
should be recruited for giving training to the people who have first-hand experiences of
school teaching. In assessing students' performance, more stress should be given to practice
only.
(iii) Regarding Engineering and Technology, the Radhakrishan Commission recommended the
inclusion of the general education and basic physical engineering science in the engineering
courses. Besides these, the Commission also suggested that the number of engineering
schools and colleges should be increased, the existing engineering colleges' should be
upgraded for post graduate training and research in selected subjects and they should be
closely associated with the universities.
(vi) In the context of Legal Education, the commission suggested that the law colleges should be
thoroughly re-organized. Students pursuing degree courses in law should not be permitted
to carry on other degree courses simultaneously.
(v) Regarding Medical Education, the commission recommended that the maximum number of
admission should be 100 and that all the departments of the study which require hospital
facilities should be located in a single campus. There should be 10 beds for each student.
Post-graduate training should be offered in certain well staffed colleges.

What are the rcommndations of university education commission regarding profeessional
education?

13.5.4 Religious Education
The University Education Commission 1948 who recommended religious education in the colleges
that-
• "all educational institution start work with a few minutes for silent meditation.
• That in the first year of the degree course the lives of great religious leaders like Gautama
the Buddha, Confucius Zaroaster, Socrates, Jesus, Sankara, Ramanuja, Madhava, Kabir, Naik,
Gandhi be taught.
• That in the second year some selections of a universalistic character from the scriptures of
the world be studied.
• That in the third year, the central problems of the philosophy of religion be considered."

13.5.5 Medium of Instruction
According to the recommendation of the University Education Commission, higher education
should be imparted through the regional lanquage with the option to use the federal lanquage as
the medium of instruction either for some subjects or for all subjects. All provincial governments
should take step to introduce the teaching of the federal lanquage in all classes of Higher Secondary
Schools, in Degree Colleges and in the Universities. English Should be studied in the Higher
Schools and in the Universities for keeping the students in touch with the living stream of ever-
growing knowledge.
13.5.6 Examination or Evaluation System

The University Education Commission criticized the present system of examination and stress
was given to introducing the objective type questions in the examination. Following are the
basic ideas and suggestions of the University Education Commission in 1948-49 in this regard.
• The commission suggested the techniques in devising and constructing objective test for the
class examination in colleges and universities.

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