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Thursday, Oct 14, 2004

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Private colleges warned on admissions to PG courses

By Our Staff Correspondent

MYSORE, OCT. 13. The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Mysore, J. Shashidhar Prasad, today cautioned managements of private colleges against violating the norms prescribed by the university on admitting students to postgraduate courses.

During a discussion of the fee structure of private colleges offering postgraduate courses at an Academic Council meeting of the university on Tuesday, Mr. Prasad said many private colleges were granting students admissions to postgraduate courses after collecting huge sums of money as donation.

Citing an example, Mr. Prasad said that university rules stipulate that admission to postgraduate courses in Master of Computer Applications (MCA) should be given only to candidates who had scored at least 50 per cent marks in their undergraduate degree. "However, even students securing 42 per cent have managed to secure admission," he said.

`Exhorbitant fees'

Meanwhile, Marithibbe Gowda, MLA, complained that the university was collecting exorbitant fees for higher education courses. This was acting as a deterrent for students to opt for higher education, Mr. Gowda said and urged the university to reduce the fees. Though the Government had fixed Rs. 48,000 as fees for the Master of Business Administration (MBA) course, the University was collecting only Rs. 30,000, Mr. Prasad said. Similiarly, the fee fixed for MCA was Rs. 50,000, but the university was collecting only Rs. 35,000.

`Grants discontinued'

The Vice-Chancellor said the university was collecting higher fees for payment seats to make good the discontinuation of payment of development grants by the Government. Except for the salaries of the staff, the university was not receiving any aid from the Government, he said.

The decision to collect a higher amount from students for payment seats was made in order to mobilise funds for ensuring basic facilities and maintaining quality of education.

The Vice-Chancellor also announced that the deans of all postgraduate departments of Manasagangothri would be provided with separate offices and mobile phones. All departments on the campus would be provided with an Internet connection.

Mr. Prasad said that memoranda of understanding (MoU) had been signed with five universities in China, enabling them to establish centres of their universities here.

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