MSU stops admissions at affiliated colleges with unqualified faculty

MADURAI

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Manonmaniam Sundaranar University

(MSU) in Tirunelveli has issued warnings to all its affiliated colleges that they will not be able to conduct admissions this year for particular courses in which they have faculty who didn’t satisfy the qualification norms set by the University Grants Commission (UGC).


Speaking to TOI, registrar of MSU S Santhosh Baboo said that the warnings and instructions were not given to the colleges in the last minute, but a while back so that they had sufficient time to satisfy the norms. “We got lists from all the colleges regarding the courses that had unqualified staff and based on that, we gave instructions to the colleges to not admit students in those programmes. We are very serious about the teaching faculty satisfying the qualification norms as it’s a court direction,” he added.

There are a total of 91 colleges under MSU and according to sources, due to this decision by the university, it is the mathematics and English courses in most of these colleges that are under threat.

“Most of the colleges are not able to get the faculty with necessary qualifications only in mathematics and English and hence holding admissions is an issue in these. In a few cases, commerce programme is a problem as well,” the source said.

Santhosh Baboo said that though the university has stopped the admissions at certain colleges, the institutions would be immediately permitted to resume admissions, provided they managed to ensure necessary steps were taken so that the concerned courses had only qualified staff. He added that to satisfy the UGC norms, the teachers should have either cleared

National Eligibility Test

(NET)/ State Eligibility Test (SET) or completed PhD.

While MSU has stopped admissions at its affiliated colleges due to this issue, it may be recalled that the Madurai Kamaraj University (MKU) has been warning its affiliated colleges of disaffiliation of particular courses if they were found to have unqualified staff on their roll.


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