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Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Chennai: Two state-run universities in Assam and Haryana have been directed by the University Grants Commission (UGC) to wind up BBA and MBA courses offered through off-campus centres across the country.
The Gauhati University, the first university established in the North-East, and the Maharshi Dayanand University in Rohtak in Haryana had recently called for applications from students to enrol in the three-year BBA programme and the two-year MBA. The courses were being offered at study centres located in major cities outside the jurisdictional territory of the two universities.
While the Gauhati University had offered the courses in off-campus centres, some of franchisee institutions, in Chennai, Coimbatore, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Delhi and a few other places, the Maharshi Dayanand University has authorised franchises in Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore and other locations.
The Gauhati University’s off-campus/franchise in Chennai are functioning from the Rai Business School in Teyanmpet and International College of Financial Planning on Lloyds Road. Its Coimbatore campus is located at the Shrisha Institute of Management Studies on Avinashi Road.
UGC deputy secretary V K Jaiswal has written to vice-chancellors of both universities pointing out that no university has been permitted to set up offcampuses or private education franchise.
“Private franchising is not allowed. State or private university is not authorised to open its off-campus centre outside the territorial jurisdiction of state university as per Supreme Court judgment in the case of Professor Yash Pal Vs State of Chhattisgarh,” Jaiswal said.
“In case the university has already started any off-campus, study centre, affiliating college, it must be closed immediately,” he added.
As early as August 2001, the then UGC chairman Hari Gautam had sought to put an end to the practice of universities functioning beyond their territorial jurisdiction through franchise centres on the ground that the universities had “no provision to monitor and maintain the academic standards of teaching being imparted at these centres.”
Two universities told to wind up off-campus courses
Chennai: Two state-run universities in Assam and Haryana have been directed by the University Grants Commission (UGC) to wind up BBA and MBA courses offered through off-campus centres across the country.
The Gauhati University, the first university established in the North-East, and the Maharshi Dayanand University in Rohtak in Haryana had recently called for applications from students to enrol in the three-year BBA programme and the two-year MBA. The courses were being offered at study centres located in major cities outside the jurisdictional territory of the two universities.
The Gauhati University’s off-campus/franchise in Chennai are functioning from the Rai Business School in Teyanmpet and International College of Financial Planning on Lloyds Road. Its Coimbatore campus is located at the Shrisha Institute of Management Studies on Avinashi Road.
UGC deputy secretary V K Jaiswal has written to vice-chancellors of both universities pointing out that no university has been permitted to set up offcampuses or private education franchise.
“Private franchising is not allowed. State or private university is not authorised to open its off-campus centre outside the territorial jurisdiction of state university as per Supreme Court judgment in the case of Professor Yash Pal Vs State of Chhattisgarh,” Jaiswal said.
“In case the university has already started any off-campus, study centre, affiliating college, it must be closed immediately,” he added.
As early as August 2001, the then UGC chairman Hari Gautam had sought to put an end to the practice of universities functioning beyond their territorial jurisdiction through franchise centres on the ground that the universities had “no provision to monitor and maintain the academic standards of teaching being imparted at these centres.”
Courtesy: Times of India
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