Uniform academic calendar in Madras varsity colleges

Updated on: Wednesday, April 01, 2009

Chennai:Enabling students to join further studies in time,colleges of MU will adhere to uniform academic calendar.

Some universities conducts convocation ceremonies according to its own convenience, some even delaying the process by a year, affecting students who wanted to pursue higher studies in India and abroad. A uniform academic calendar will end this chaos.

To facilitate smooth career mobility and academic progression for students in higher education an expert committee headed by eminent academician M Anandakrishnan had proposed a uniform academic calendar in universities and colleges across the country.

As part of an initiative to bring a nationwide uniform academic calendar, the University of Madras will ensure that all its affiliated colleges commence first year classes not later than the first week of August and similarly the classes for second and third year students will begin by the third week of July from the forth coming academic year.

The university will also have to ensure that the results for all the courses shall be declared by not later than last week of June every year.

Several universities had started to implement the regulation from last year itself, some others have decided to adopt it from the coming academic year.

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Uniform academic calendar in Madras varsity colleges

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