Law school in city still hands out handwritten marksheets
This Is A Violation Of Government Regulations
Ram.Sundaram@timesgroup.com
Chennai:21.09.2018
In the era of digital certificates and online examinations, a private law school in the city has resorted to the illegal practice of issuing ‘handwritten’ marksheets to its law graduates looking for postgraduate admissions.
Worse, the governmentrun TN Dr Ambedkar Law University (TNDALU) has accepted these handwritten documents as valid testimonials for its postgraduate admission process. Call letters inviting the students for counselling were sent to these candidates earlier this month, triggering outcry in legal circles.
Disclosing that call letters were sent to ineligible candidates, officials told TOI: “Handwritten marksheets, endorsed by their respective principals, were accepted as a legitimate document by the School of Excellence in Law (SOEL) functioning under TNDALU. This is a blatant violation of existing government norms.”
TOI has in its possession one such marksheet submitted by a candidate from Saveetha School of Law. When contacted, prinicipal Asha Sundaram, who endorsed it, said the student’s final mark list was not ready in time for SOEL applications. “We issued handwritten documents only after SOEL insisted on it, if the final mark list was not ready,” she added.
In response, a senior SOEL official told TOI that call letters were dispatched based on claims made by students. “The said candidate was not given admission. It was mandatory for candidates to submit original certificates for verification at the time of counselling.”
Others, however, have questioned the legality of the call letter and said ineligible candidates shouldn’t have been invited for counselling in the first place, and that action came only after opposition from insiders.
“Even now, there is no clarity on the said candidate's admission status. The university should probe the entire admission process to find out if SEOL had accepted handwritten marksheets of candidates from other private schools as well,” an official said.
SOEL offers two-year master of law (LLM) degrees in nine branches and has 180 seats. Candidates with a score of 45% or above in their UG course in law from a recognised institute are eligible. The deadline for applications was August 17. The university released the rank list for LLM courses on September 8, and counselling ended Monday.
A copy of the handwritten marksheet submitted by a candidate from Saveetha School of Law
This Is A Violation Of Government Regulations
Ram.Sundaram@timesgroup.com
Chennai:21.09.2018
In the era of digital certificates and online examinations, a private law school in the city has resorted to the illegal practice of issuing ‘handwritten’ marksheets to its law graduates looking for postgraduate admissions.
Worse, the governmentrun TN Dr Ambedkar Law University (TNDALU) has accepted these handwritten documents as valid testimonials for its postgraduate admission process. Call letters inviting the students for counselling were sent to these candidates earlier this month, triggering outcry in legal circles.
Disclosing that call letters were sent to ineligible candidates, officials told TOI: “Handwritten marksheets, endorsed by their respective principals, were accepted as a legitimate document by the School of Excellence in Law (SOEL) functioning under TNDALU. This is a blatant violation of existing government norms.”
TOI has in its possession one such marksheet submitted by a candidate from Saveetha School of Law. When contacted, prinicipal Asha Sundaram, who endorsed it, said the student’s final mark list was not ready in time for SOEL applications. “We issued handwritten documents only after SOEL insisted on it, if the final mark list was not ready,” she added.
In response, a senior SOEL official told TOI that call letters were dispatched based on claims made by students. “The said candidate was not given admission. It was mandatory for candidates to submit original certificates for verification at the time of counselling.”
Others, however, have questioned the legality of the call letter and said ineligible candidates shouldn’t have been invited for counselling in the first place, and that action came only after opposition from insiders.
“Even now, there is no clarity on the said candidate's admission status. The university should probe the entire admission process to find out if SEOL had accepted handwritten marksheets of candidates from other private schools as well,” an official said.
SOEL offers two-year master of law (LLM) degrees in nine branches and has 180 seats. Candidates with a score of 45% or above in their UG course in law from a recognised institute are eligible. The deadline for applications was August 17. The university released the rank list for LLM courses on September 8, and counselling ended Monday.
A copy of the handwritten marksheet submitted by a candidate from Saveetha School of Law
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