The National College, Basavanagudi, one of the oldest and well-known educational institutions of the city, will celebrate its diamond jubilee on Friday. To mark the occasion, it plans to start a new combination of science and arts undergraduate courses for the first time in the country. Governor T.N. Chaturvedi will inaugurate the celebrations on Friday. The college itself was started in 1945 to mark the silver jubilee of the National High School, which was founded in 1917 by Annie Besant. National Education Society President A.H. Rama Rao told The Hindu here on Thursday that the autonomous status granted to the college has come in handy to chalk out a new methodology in imparting education. Consultations have begun with national and international experts to frame new syllabi. The National Education Society runs a chain of institutions, including the National Colleges at Jayanagar and Basavanagudi and the National High School. Dr. Rama Rao said plans were afoot to start degree courses with subject combinations of Physics, Computer Science and Mathematics; Physics, Mathematics and Electronics; Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics; and Mathematics, Electronics and Computer Science. Computer Science and Mathematics were also a subject of study in the arts courses. Nanotechnology as a subject will be introduced at the undergraduate level. Japan has introduced Nanotechnology as a subject of study at the primary school level in that country.

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