Tamil Nadu - Salem   

Delay in publishing results puts students in a fix

SALEM: Over 6,000 students from other States, who appeared for the examinations for M.Phil course conducted through the Periyar Institute of Distance Education (PRIDE) of Periyar University, are in a fix as the university is inordinately delaying the publication of results.

Poor administration in the examination and evaluation process in the institute came to light when about 100 students from Karnataka staged a demonstration on the university premises on Wednesday.

They claimed that they hoped that a M. Phil qualification would enhance their prospects of getting government employment as lecturers. The Karnataka Public Service Commission invited application for the post of lecturers and the deadline for submitting applications was January 31.

The students said that the government extended the last date to February 20 following requests. As the university was delaying the publication of results, many of them were worried that they would not be able to submit the applications. Nearly 1,000 students from Karnataka appeared for the M.Phil examinations. The university conducted the examinations in November/December 2007, they said.

The university had admitted a staggering 35,000 students in the M.Phil programme under distance education mode in 2006-07, as the government ordered the universities to stop offering M.Phil in distance mode from the 2007-08. The university was not able to handle the large number of students as it had limited resources, sources claimed.

University Vice-Chancellor M. Thangaraju attributed the delay in publishing results to the problems in transporting the M.Phil dissertations from the study centres. “We are not able to get evaluators for some of the subjects, which is also a reason for the delay. We, however, have promised the students to publish the results within February 15,” he said.

The university published the results for M.Phil examinations conducted for students in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry recently.

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