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University committees inspect affiliated colleges

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TIRUCHI: : Bharathidasan University has fulfilled the statutory requirement of conducting triennial inspection of affiliated colleges for the first time ever since it was formed in 1982.

Though initiatives were taken on a few occasions in the past to meet the statutory requirements, they frittered off midway after a handful of colleges were inspected. It is for the first time that all the colleges have been inspected comprehensively by university authorities.

"A total number of 79 colleges which are three-year old and above, have been inspected so far by high-level committees between February and April," the Vice-Chancellor, C. Thangamuthu, told The Hindu . The Committees have submitted college-specific reports and comprehensive reports to the university.

The inspection committees were headed by former Vice-Chancellor of Bharathidasan University and former Chairman of the National Assessment and Accreditation Committee, A. Gnanam, former Vice-Chancellor of Bharathidasan University V. R. Muthukaruppan, former Vice-Chancellor of Bharathiyar University K.M. Marimuthu, former Vice-Chancellor of Madras University S. Sadiq, and former Vice-Chancellor of Madurai Kamaraj University, Aludiapillai.

The entire process was set in motion six months ago, when the university informed the principals about impending visits by high-level committees.

During the course of the inspection, the committees, each of which were allotted specific numbers of institutions, spent a day in the institution, in order to have a sitting with the principal, and interactions with faculty and students, besides visiting all departments to assess adequacy of infrastructure. The committees also met with the managements of the institutions, as part of their efforts to have an overview of the institutions and their conformity to their objectives.

The reports, said the Vice-Chancellor, would be placed before the Syndicate and sent to the Government before despatch of feedback containing suggestions for improvement to the principals as a follow-up action. Barring the handful of autonomous and NAAC accredited colleges, for the rest of the institutions the process it was an opportunity to understand nuances of high-level inspections, said Dr. Thangamuthu.

The university is buoyed by the informal observation by the committees that a majority of self-financing colleges they inspected had exhibited a commitment to quality education.

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