GO on PG courses leaves 20,000 students in lurch
Sambath.Kumar@timesgroup.com
Trichy:18.12.2018
A government order declaring 33 professional postgraduate courses in arts and science colleges and state-run universities nonequivalent to conventional courses will make thousands of students ineligible for government jobs.
A rough estimate of the number of students of such professional courses would exceed 20,000 in the state, according to sources in Bharathidasan university.
However, for many thousands who are awaiting government teaching jobs fulfilling all the eligibility criteria, the order has come as a bolt from the blue.
The equivalence committee constituted by the higher education department states that for any two degrees to be equivalent, 75% of the syllabi must be similar.
The worst affected will be 13 MSc programmes offered by some of the state-run universities that are similar to MSc computer science.
MCA offered by Bharathidasan University and Annamalai university has been deemed not equivalent to MSc Computer Science. MCom Corporate Secretaryship (CS) and MCom Computer Application offered by Periyar university have also been deemed non-equivalent to MCom apart from MCom international business and MCom Corporate Secretaryship offered by Bharathiar University.
The government order dated August 14 was in recognition of the resolutions passed by the 59th equivalence committee meeting held in May. The state government had approved the recommendations of the committee.
T S Senthil Kumar, a guest faculty of Bharathidasan University College, Perambalur, said the decision would affect candidates like him who fulfilled all eligibility criteria to become teachers in a state-run university.
“Though I did MCA, we were considered students of MSc Computer Science itself. Now when I have completed over 10 years of service as an ad-hoc teacher and am waiting for a job, I am denied opportunity,” he said.
“It may not affect students who are going to industry after their post-graduation as MCA and other related programmes are in demand. But thousands of students who wish to get into the government sector, especially as teachers will be affected,” said a senior faculty from Bharathidasan University.
“This is the cumulative result of many litigation by students on the non-equivalence issue,” said a senior higher education official.
The question of ‘equivalence’ assumed significance only in the last 10 years in the context of mushrooming ‘job-oriented and innovative’ courses introduced by autonomous colleges and state-run universities.
Their attractive ‘nomenclature’ took precedence over the eligibility and purpose. Even warnings from the University Grants Commission were neglected by many educational institutions, say academicians.
The question of ‘equivalence’ assumed significance only in the last 10 years in the context of mushrooming ‘job-oriented and innovative’ courses
Sambath.Kumar@timesgroup.com
Trichy:18.12.2018
A government order declaring 33 professional postgraduate courses in arts and science colleges and state-run universities nonequivalent to conventional courses will make thousands of students ineligible for government jobs.
A rough estimate of the number of students of such professional courses would exceed 20,000 in the state, according to sources in Bharathidasan university.
However, for many thousands who are awaiting government teaching jobs fulfilling all the eligibility criteria, the order has come as a bolt from the blue.
The equivalence committee constituted by the higher education department states that for any two degrees to be equivalent, 75% of the syllabi must be similar.
The worst affected will be 13 MSc programmes offered by some of the state-run universities that are similar to MSc computer science.
MCA offered by Bharathidasan University and Annamalai university has been deemed not equivalent to MSc Computer Science. MCom Corporate Secretaryship (CS) and MCom Computer Application offered by Periyar university have also been deemed non-equivalent to MCom apart from MCom international business and MCom Corporate Secretaryship offered by Bharathiar University.
The government order dated August 14 was in recognition of the resolutions passed by the 59th equivalence committee meeting held in May. The state government had approved the recommendations of the committee.
T S Senthil Kumar, a guest faculty of Bharathidasan University College, Perambalur, said the decision would affect candidates like him who fulfilled all eligibility criteria to become teachers in a state-run university.
“Though I did MCA, we were considered students of MSc Computer Science itself. Now when I have completed over 10 years of service as an ad-hoc teacher and am waiting for a job, I am denied opportunity,” he said.
“It may not affect students who are going to industry after their post-graduation as MCA and other related programmes are in demand. But thousands of students who wish to get into the government sector, especially as teachers will be affected,” said a senior faculty from Bharathidasan University.
“This is the cumulative result of many litigation by students on the non-equivalence issue,” said a senior higher education official.
The question of ‘equivalence’ assumed significance only in the last 10 years in the context of mushrooming ‘job-oriented and innovative’ courses introduced by autonomous colleges and state-run universities.
Their attractive ‘nomenclature’ took precedence over the eligibility and purpose. Even warnings from the University Grants Commission were neglected by many educational institutions, say academicians.
The question of ‘equivalence’ assumed significance only in the last 10 years in the context of mushrooming ‘job-oriented and innovative’ courses
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