Anna varsity to intensify scrutiny for affiliation
TNN | Feb 9, 2020, 10.08 AM IST
Every inspection team will have a faculty member from IIT-M IISc Bangalore or NIT Trichy to ensure proper inspection. Besides focusing on infrastructure and labs, the committees will focus on faculty-students ratio, cadre ratio in departments and will also verify PhD degree certificates.
There are 70,000 faculty members in more than 500 engineering colleges across the state. Among them, nearly 10,000 are PhD holders. Following complaints that many faculty members are working with fake PhD certificates, the university had asked colleges to ensure genuineness of PhD certificates from respective universities.
"If any faculty member is found with fake certificates, the university will initiate severe action against them. As per the court order, if colleges lack basic amenities and faculty members the university would cancel the affiliation for courses. If the facilities are poor, the university may disaffiliate the colleges too," said Anna University vice-chancellor M K Surappa.
Inspection committees will give more weightage to basic infrastructure such as labs, teachers, grounds, hostel and mess facilities and access to internet.
They will also verify Aadhaar cards and PAN cards of faculty members to eliminate fakes.
"Last year, many colleges showed fake faculty members during inspection and in other instances a faculty member was shown as working in multiple institutions. To weed out such malpractice, the university will undertake Aadhaar card and PAN card verification during inspection," sources said.
More than 500 engineering colleges in the state have sought affiliation from Anna University while around 10 colleges decided to not admit any students for next academic year. "The inspection is likely to start in the third week of February and end before March 31. Following inspections, the university will summarise reports and send deficiency reports to colleges. The colleges will be given two weeks time to file compliance report and after verifying them, the university will allow continuation of affiliation to engineering colleges," officials said.
Last year, about 170 faculty members from eminent institutions such as IIT Madras and IISc Bangalore had visited more than 530 engineering colleges in the state for inspection. Based on their reports, the university reduced intake in 92 colleges which had more than 25% deficiency in labs, library, faculty members and classrooms.
TNN | Feb 9, 2020, 10.08 AM IST
CHENNAI: To ensure minimum standards at colleges, Anna University will include 600 faculty members from IIT Madras, IISc Bangalore, NIT Trichy and Indian Institute of Management Trichy in inspection committees for affiliation for 2020-21.
Every inspection team will have a faculty member from IIT-M IISc Bangalore or NIT Trichy to ensure proper inspection. Besides focusing on infrastructure and labs, the committees will focus on faculty-students ratio, cadre ratio in departments and will also verify PhD degree certificates.
There are 70,000 faculty members in more than 500 engineering colleges across the state. Among them, nearly 10,000 are PhD holders. Following complaints that many faculty members are working with fake PhD certificates, the university had asked colleges to ensure genuineness of PhD certificates from respective universities.
"If any faculty member is found with fake certificates, the university will initiate severe action against them. As per the court order, if colleges lack basic amenities and faculty members the university would cancel the affiliation for courses. If the facilities are poor, the university may disaffiliate the colleges too," said Anna University vice-chancellor M K Surappa.
Inspection committees will give more weightage to basic infrastructure such as labs, teachers, grounds, hostel and mess facilities and access to internet.
They will also verify Aadhaar cards and PAN cards of faculty members to eliminate fakes.
"Last year, many colleges showed fake faculty members during inspection and in other instances a faculty member was shown as working in multiple institutions. To weed out such malpractice, the university will undertake Aadhaar card and PAN card verification during inspection," sources said.
More than 500 engineering colleges in the state have sought affiliation from Anna University while around 10 colleges decided to not admit any students for next academic year. "The inspection is likely to start in the third week of February and end before March 31. Following inspections, the university will summarise reports and send deficiency reports to colleges. The colleges will be given two weeks time to file compliance report and after verifying them, the university will allow continuation of affiliation to engineering colleges," officials said.
Last year, about 170 faculty members from eminent institutions such as IIT Madras and IISc Bangalore had visited more than 530 engineering colleges in the state for inspection. Based on their reports, the university reduced intake in 92 colleges which had more than 25% deficiency in labs, library, faculty members and classrooms.
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