UGC, Advocates Autonomy to colleges Workshop held at MANUU

Hyderabad, Feb 4 (Maxim News): University Grants Commission (UGC) is keen to play a proactive role in facilitating and coordinating the promotion of quality higher education in the country. UGC is willing to take up the genuine issues regarding the grant of autonomy to educational institutions. Prof. Gopal Reddy, Member UGC, New Delhi expressed these views today while addressing the inaugural of workshop “Autonomy to colleges; Benefits and way Forward”.

Autonomy is one of the most important issue, autonomous system has completed 30 years in the Country but much more has to be done, he informed the workshop organized by UGC, South Eastern Regional Office (SERO), Hyderabad at Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU) on 4th February, 2019.

Prof. Reddy described Colleges, Universities, State Councils for Higher Education and UGC as one family. He stressed the need to remove obstacles in the way of granting autonomy to colleges. Earlier, Dr. Mohammad Aslam Parvaiz, Vice-Chancellor, MANUU welcomed the gathering and gave a brief introduction of the Urdu University. He described MANUU as a bridge to bring Madrassa students into the mainstream of education. He singled out quality as the most important parameter for granting autonomy. Prof. P. Papi Reddy, Chairman, Telangana State Council of Higher Education (TSCHE) stressed the need to have greater autonomy for educational institutions. Prof. S. Ramachandram, Vice-Chancellor, Osmania University in his address encouraged the colleges to go for autonomy, which is essential to attain excellence. He also spoke about the problems faced by the University in dealing with the affiliated colleges.

Prof. V. V. Ramana, Vice-Chairman, TSCHE spoke about the approach towards academic autonomy. Higher Education sector is facing a leadership crises, he pointed out. Prof. K. Bhaskar, Vice-Chancellor, MS University, Tirunelveli, said that developed countries does not have the practice of affiliation of colleges. He advised against the political interference into the administration of Universities.

Prof. N. Rajendaran, Vice-Chancellor, Alagappa University stressed the need to effectively use the autonomy. Nuances, intricacies of higher education must be taught to the faculty, he opined. Dr. Kavita, Vice-Chancellor, Jawarhar Lal University of Fine Arts described autonomy as an admirable ideological concept. Dr. G. Srinivas, Joint Secretary, UGC-SERO, spoke about the aims and objectives of the workshop in the beginning.

Dr. Madhukar B.S, Former adviser NAAC gave a power point presentation on “Accreditation of Autonomous Colleges”. Most of the speakers praised the eco-friendly and green environment of the MANUU campus & complemented the Vice-Chancellor. (Maxim News)