New Delhi:
The Centre's decision to withdraw the deemed university status of 44 universities in the country has 2 lakh students in 13 states very worried. (Read: List of universities affected)
Students have ransacked buildings at the Saveetha Institute in Chennai, one of the 44 deemed universities to lose its status. (Watch: Derecognised Universities - Students share concerns)
In a bid to safeguard their interests, the government has decided to revert the status of these institutions as affiliate colleges with their original universities. Sixteen of these universities are in Tamil Nadu, many run by politicians more as a family enterprise less a professional academic body, with concocted nomenclature and disproportionate intake of students.
But the students enrolled here have questions about their future. If these deemed universities will now be known as an affiliated college of the state university or state medical college, the big question on their minds is how smooth will the transition be? Changes like these are most often fraught with possible procedural delays.
Also, they are worried about how they will be graded by the state universities. What if the courses they have opted for are no longer taught by the state university? As yet there is no clarification on these very basic questions.
The government is still waiting for draft regulations of the UGC for declaration of institutions as deemed-to-be universities. It is also in the process of finalising a legislative proposal for regulating the entry and operations of foreign education providers in India.
The institutes blacklisted for derecognition have 1,19,363 students at the under-graduate and post-graduate levels, 2,124 pursuing research in M.Phil and Ph.D programmes, and an estimated 74,808 pursuing distance education programmes. Five of these universities are in Delhi and the NCR. (Read: List)
On Monday, the Centre told the Supreme Court that it had decided to withdraw the "deemed" status to the 44 universities as they were being run as family fiefdoms rather than on academic considerations.
The affidavit filed by Ministry of Human Resource and Development said the government had accepted the recommendations made in this regard by the high-powered P N Tandon committee and the Special Task Force set up to suggest measures to tackle the problem. (Read: Centre to derecognise 44 deemed universities)
Asked to repond, this is what AIADMK MP Thambidurai, whose family runs the St Peters Deemed University in Chennai, had to say to NDTV: "Well now only you are telling me about this, I will have to study."
When asked about the HRD Ministry telling the Supreme Court that these institutions were run like family fiefdoms and not by professionals, he refused comment and said he would appeal against the decision. "Well, I don't run any college..." he said, denying his family or wife did either.
Students have ransacked buildings at the Saveetha Institute in Chennai, one of the 44 deemed universities to lose its status. (Watch: Derecognised Universities - Students share concerns)
In a bid to safeguard their interests, the government has decided to revert the status of these institutions as affiliate colleges with their original universities. Sixteen of these universities are in Tamil Nadu, many run by politicians more as a family enterprise less a professional academic body, with concocted nomenclature and disproportionate intake of students.
But the students enrolled here have questions about their future. If these deemed universities will now be known as an affiliated college of the state university or state medical college, the big question on their minds is how smooth will the transition be? Changes like these are most often fraught with possible procedural delays.
Also, they are worried about how they will be graded by the state universities. What if the courses they have opted for are no longer taught by the state university? As yet there is no clarification on these very basic questions.
The government is still waiting for draft regulations of the UGC for declaration of institutions as deemed-to-be universities. It is also in the process of finalising a legislative proposal for regulating the entry and operations of foreign education providers in India.
The institutes blacklisted for derecognition have 1,19,363 students at the under-graduate and post-graduate levels, 2,124 pursuing research in M.Phil and Ph.D programmes, and an estimated 74,808 pursuing distance education programmes. Five of these universities are in Delhi and the NCR. (Read: List)
On Monday, the Centre told the Supreme Court that it had decided to withdraw the "deemed" status to the 44 universities as they were being run as family fiefdoms rather than on academic considerations.
The affidavit filed by Ministry of Human Resource and Development said the government had accepted the recommendations made in this regard by the high-powered P N Tandon committee and the Special Task Force set up to suggest measures to tackle the problem. (Read: Centre to derecognise 44 deemed universities)
Asked to repond, this is what AIADMK MP Thambidurai, whose family runs the St Peters Deemed University in Chennai, had to say to NDTV: "Well now only you are telling me about this, I will have to study."
When asked about the HRD Ministry telling the Supreme Court that these institutions were run like family fiefdoms and not by professionals, he refused comment and said he would appeal against the decision. "Well, I don't run any college..." he said, denying his family or wife did either.
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