Graduation ceremony remains a pipe dream for them
MADURAI, MARCH 08, 2019 00:00 IST
Students of Madurai Kamaraj University College, who completed courses in 2015, are yet to get degree certificates
Madurai Kamaraj University (MKU) College here has not conducted its graduation ceremony for the students who passed out of the college at least since 2015.
The college, which comes under the direct administration of the MKU and being run on self-financing mode, offers 13 undergraduate courses and nine postgraduate courses with hundreds of students passing out every year.
While a section of alumni who completed their undergraduation as early as 2013 claimed that they were yet to receive their degree certificates, official sources said the graduation ceremony was not conducted only for the batches that passed out since 2015.
A girl student, who completed her undergraduation and completed postgraduation in business administration in the college in 2017, said she neither got the opportunity to attend the graduation ceremony nor received her degree certificates.
Convocation fee
Another postgraduate student, who passed out in 2016, said this was despite the college promptly collecting a convocation fee from final year students. “Though I desperately needed the certificate for a job in late 2017, I could not obtain it. I received it only recently,” he said.
Highlighting that the college was run on self-financing mode with fees on a par with many private colleges, a postgraduate student in Tamil who passed out in 2017, said it was unfair on the part of the college to not issue certificates on time and conduct graduation ceremonies.
“Most of our students come from rural and economically-backward families. It will be a dream for them and particularly their parents to see them receive degree certificates at the graduation ceremony,” he said.
Acknowledging that there were delays in the issuance of certificates due to various factors, a senior university official said the issues had already been addressed to a large extent. “Now, we have obtained all backlog certificates of students graduated since 2015 and made them available at the college for them to collect. It was a humongous task. However, we have done it,” he said.
Assuring that graduation ceremony would be conducted for those who passed out in 2018 in the near future, the official said the possibility of doing it together for those who graduated since 2015 would also be explored.
MADURAI, MARCH 08, 2019 00:00 IST
Students of Madurai Kamaraj University College, who completed courses in 2015, are yet to get degree certificates
Madurai Kamaraj University (MKU) College here has not conducted its graduation ceremony for the students who passed out of the college at least since 2015.
The college, which comes under the direct administration of the MKU and being run on self-financing mode, offers 13 undergraduate courses and nine postgraduate courses with hundreds of students passing out every year.
While a section of alumni who completed their undergraduation as early as 2013 claimed that they were yet to receive their degree certificates, official sources said the graduation ceremony was not conducted only for the batches that passed out since 2015.
A girl student, who completed her undergraduation and completed postgraduation in business administration in the college in 2017, said she neither got the opportunity to attend the graduation ceremony nor received her degree certificates.
Convocation fee
Another postgraduate student, who passed out in 2016, said this was despite the college promptly collecting a convocation fee from final year students. “Though I desperately needed the certificate for a job in late 2017, I could not obtain it. I received it only recently,” he said.
Highlighting that the college was run on self-financing mode with fees on a par with many private colleges, a postgraduate student in Tamil who passed out in 2017, said it was unfair on the part of the college to not issue certificates on time and conduct graduation ceremonies.
“Most of our students come from rural and economically-backward families. It will be a dream for them and particularly their parents to see them receive degree certificates at the graduation ceremony,” he said.
Acknowledging that there were delays in the issuance of certificates due to various factors, a senior university official said the issues had already been addressed to a large extent. “Now, we have obtained all backlog certificates of students graduated since 2015 and made them available at the college for them to collect. It was a humongous task. However, we have done it,” he said.
Assuring that graduation ceremony would be conducted for those who passed out in 2018 in the near future, the official said the possibility of doing it together for those who graduated since 2015 would also be explored.
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