SRCC, LSR, St Stephens, Loyola to get ‘autonomous’ status: MHRD

[Nitin S. Joshi Joshi]

SRCC, LSR, St Stephens, Loyola to get ‘autonomous’ status: MHRD

The Union Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) is working on a plan to give complete autonomy to some of country’s prestigious colleges. The move will free these colleges from the administrative control of the universities they are currently affiliated.

Autonomous status will enable the colleges to structure their courses as well as change syllabi and examination system as we as allow then to open campuses.

The University Grants Commission (UGC) is soon going to come out with a regulation that will make available for select colleges the option of exercising autonomy, said Ashok Thakur, Secretary, higher education department.

The colleges that are going to get autonomous status are St Stephen’s, Sri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC) and Lady Sri Ram (LSR) affiliated to Delhi University; Loyola College in Chennai; and St Xavier's College in Mumbai, which already enjoys limited autonomy.

However, Thakur added that these colleges need to get an “A” grade from the National Accreditation and Assessment Council (NAAC) for the status.

Thakur said that these colleges will continue to get financial grants from agencies such as the UGC, state or Centre; in addition, they will be allowed to mobilise resources from other acceptable sources, reported The Statesman.

 

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