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Latest News |
| 26th
February 2010 / Times of India / Hyderabad Edition |
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Doomed institutes told to seek affiliation
Students To Migrate To Other Colleges
New Delhi: Hardening its stand against universities stripped
off their deemed status by HRD ministrys Tandon committee,the
Centre on Wednesday stood by the expert bodys recommendation
that these institutions must revert to old status and
be asked to seek fresh affiliation from nearby universities.
Students studying in these institutions would have to
migrate to other colleges if the faulted institution failed
to get fresh affiliation,it said and added that the cost
of migration and fresh enrolment in the new college would
have to be borne by the one stripped of its deemed university
status.
But before taking a final decision on the fate of the
44 educational institutions recommended by the expert
committee for being stripped of deemed status,the Centre
said one final opportunity would be given to them to show
cause why they be not treated as per the recommendations
of the Tandon committee.
The Centre will take a final decision after receiving
their response,the HRD ministry said in its affidavit
filed in the Supreme Court on Wednesday.The ministry had
faced serious questioning from a vociferous lot of senior
advocates on the ability and legality of the Tandon committee
to pass judgment on the deemed university status of educational
institutions conferred by the University Grants Commission
(UGC).
Quoting the status report,the Centre said,Medical colleges
and dental colleges not found suitable to continue as
institutions deemed to be universities should also revert
to status quo ante and should seek affiliation to the
appropriate statutory State University or State Medical
University to enable students to complete their courses.
It added,Where an institution is unable to obtain affiliation,every
effort should be made to facilitate migration/re-enrolment
of students to equivalent or similar courses in other
institutions.Students in doctoral programmes would need
to re-register in affiliating universities. All distance
education programmes run by these faulty universities
have to immediately discontinue the programme and those
enrolled have to be shifted to IGNOU or State Open Universities,it
said.
The entire cost of migration and rehabilitation of students
should be at the expense of the managements of the failed
institutions from out of the corpus fund which was required
to be maintained in respect of each under the extant UGC
guidelines, the ministry said.Defending the findings and
mode of scrutiny adopted by the committee to review the
deemed status of educational institutions,the ministry
said it was concerned primarily with issues relating to
academic and research excellence,emerging areas of knowledge,post-graduate
education,governance structures and an overall milieu
conducive to the concept of a university.
Review Panel notes
Undesirable management architecture where families,rather
than professional academics,controlled the institutions
Thoughtless introduction of unrelated programmes and proliferation
of degrees beyond the mandate of the original terms of
grant of deemed university status Very few institutions
could produce evidence of quality research Many institutions
on attaining deemed university status increased their
intake capacity disproportionately Several institutions
deemed to be universities,undergraduate and post-graduate
programmes had been fragmented with concocted nomenclatures
Several institutions prescribed fee structures considerably
higher than those recommended by the official fee-structure
committees.
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