Semester system at the degree level from the academic session 2013-14 at MU

Updated on: Tuesday, March 05, 2013

The Magadh University (MU) will introduce semester system at the degree level from the academic session 2013-14. This was revealed by the MU vice chancellor, Arun Kumar. Delivering his presidential address at the annual meet of the university Senate, the apex decision-making body on Sunday, the VC said that semester system has already been introduced at the post-graduate level in the university from the academic session 2012-13.

The switch over from the annual examination system to the semester system is being given effect in view of the UGC recommendations for continuous evaluation and monitoring. The three years degree course will have six semesters once the switch over takes place.

The VC claimed that the examination system of the university was back on the rails and the academic calendar was being followed in its totality and there was no examination backlog. The VC also expressed the resolve to create facilities for a favourable appreciation by the National Academic Accreditation Council both in the university departments and the colleges under MU.

Arun Kumar, in his address to the university Senate members, also claimed that a grievance redressal mechanism was very much in place in the university.

However, the VC conveniently skipped the issue of degree scandals that frequently crop up at the national level, thereby giving a very bad name to the university. Only recently, a CBI team arrested Deo College principal in connection with a degree racket in which nearly a dozen persons managed to obtain government jobs in Himachal Pradesh on the basis of MU degree allegedly obtained in a fraudulent manner.

Moreover, the controversy surrounding the questionable nature of degree awarded to Mohali City SP Parampal Singh Gandhi is yet to die down as Kisan College, Sohsarai's admission registers do not mention the Punjab police officer's name and the college did not have degree level affiliation to teach sociology when Parampal Singh claimed to have studied sociology in Kisan College, Sohsarai.

The university officials have also invited criticism by no less a body than the State Information Commission (SIC) for what SIC Farzand Ahmad called 'lethal partnership' between the university officials and the Punjab police officer.

The other noticeable omission in the VC's presidential address at the annual meet of the Senate pertained to the non-appointment of principals in 12 colleges, even more than two months after the completion of the controversy-ridden selection process.

Earlier, Shiv Jatan Thakur, a former member of the selection committee, in a petition addressed to chief minister Nitish Kumar alleged that reservation rules were not being strictly followed in the appointment of MU principals. Thakur also reminded the CM that violation of the reservation rules was a punishable offence.

Semester system at the degree level from the academic session 2013-14 at MU

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