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Thursday, 28 January, 2010
Chennai: The 12 new central universities including one in Tamil Nadu set up last year under the Central Universities Act are likely to admit students on the basis of their performance in an all-India common entrance examination from the coming academic year.
According to Tamil Nadu Central University vice chancellor B P Sanjay, he had discussed the proposal with his counterparts of the new universities. An expert committee headed by him would examine the proposal and the modalities for implementing it after eliciting views from all vice-chancellors. "A decision on this will be made soon," he said after inaugurating an international seminar on 'Opportunities and Challenges of the Media Industry' at the MOP Vaishnav College for Women here recently.
Along with three state universities in Bilaspur, Sagar and Srinagar that were upgraded as central universities, 12 new central universities were created in January last year in Jharkhand, Karnataka, Bihar, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir, Orissa, Kerala, Gujarat, Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu. The last, inaugurated in September 2009, is located in Tiruvarur.
Presently, there are 38 central universities in the country. Regulated by the University Grants Commission, they offer under-graduate, post-graduate, MPhil and PhD programmes, besides courses on regional issues.
Elaborating on the idea of a common entrance test, Sanjay said the proposed exam would be similar to the existing practice where students take two tests - subject - specific and a generic test (an aptitude test on willingness to join a university).
Once the proposal gets the approval of vice-chancellors of other new central universities, around 40 centres across the country would be shortlisted to conduct the entrance tests.
New central universities, which already have better infrastructure facilities, would pool resources to organise the entrance tests. The expert committee is expected to make a decision before March 15, well ahead of the commencement of the next academic year.
"As we are autonomous institutions, we can implement the proposal once all the VCs of the new central universities agree for it. If not, we would continue with the existing pattern where entrance tests are conducted by each central university independently," Sanjay added.
New central univs may go for CET
Chennai: The 12 new central universities including one in Tamil Nadu set up last year under the Central Universities Act are likely to admit students on the basis of their performance in an all-India common entrance examination from the coming academic year.
According to Tamil Nadu Central University vice chancellor B P Sanjay, he had discussed the proposal with his counterparts of the new universities. An expert committee headed by him would examine the proposal and the modalities for implementing it after eliciting views from all vice-chancellors. "A decision on this will be made soon," he said after inaugurating an international seminar on 'Opportunities and Challenges of the Media Industry' at the MOP Vaishnav College for Women here recently.
Presently, there are 38 central universities in the country. Regulated by the University Grants Commission, they offer under-graduate, post-graduate, MPhil and PhD programmes, besides courses on regional issues.
Elaborating on the idea of a common entrance test, Sanjay said the proposed exam would be similar to the existing practice where students take two tests - subject - specific and a generic test (an aptitude test on willingness to join a university).
Once the proposal gets the approval of vice-chancellors of other new central universities, around 40 centres across the country would be shortlisted to conduct the entrance tests.
New central universities, which already have better infrastructure facilities, would pool resources to organise the entrance tests. The expert committee is expected to make a decision before March 15, well ahead of the commencement of the next academic year.
"As we are autonomous institutions, we can implement the proposal once all the VCs of the new central universities agree for it. If not, we would continue with the existing pattern where entrance tests are conducted by each central university independently," Sanjay added.
Courtesy: Times of India
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