Thursday, July 30, 2015

NAAC team visit ends, guessing game begins on MU status

Gaya: With the NAAC team visiting the administrative block, exam section and allied units of the MU headquarters, the three-day-long inspection by a 10-member team ended on Wednesday evening, thereby engineering a guessing game as to the category in which MU will be placed. The grade will be known only after the team submits its comprehensive report to the apex body entrusted with the assessment and accreditation job.

Led by Yashvant Rao Chauhan Mahrashtra Open University VC Prof M M Salunkhe, the NAAC members extensively examined the university's record and infrastructure to assess its academic and allied worth. The team members are expected to award points on a set of parameters to examine the innovating teaching methods, faculty strength, physical infrastructure, academic activities, quality of research, curriculum design utilization of resources, future planning, past performance and sundry other things.

The other credit earning areas include environment-friendly campus, digitization, e-education, evaluation techniques, maintenance of academic calendar, transparency in admission process, facilities for research, availability of books in the library and condition of laboratory etc.

Sources say that a section of students during one such closed door interaction spilt the beans and told the visitors that student amenities left much to be desired. Complaining about the alleged mess in the university mess, the students also complained against lack of medical and transport facilities.

During interaction with college principals, the team members wanted to know whether the college principals and other stake holders were taken into confidence in academic matters like curriculum design etc. Principals gave contradictory response thereby adding to the confusion of the team.

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