CHENNAI: The Manonmaniam Sundaranar University has suppressed the norms of the University Grants Commission, the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and the Ministry of Human Resources Development, and has been conducting regular degree courses outside its jurisdiction. “This is in gross violation of norms and misuse of university jurisdiction,” said a university source.To top these, the university’s 1,044 franchise partners (private institutes) were allowed to conduct courses, design syllabus and hold examinations on their own. For everything and anything, the students had to allegedly shell out money. Interestingly, these institutes were collecting exorbitant fees running into several lakhs of rupees and the university did not conduct checks to stem the irregularities. Sources said the degrees offered by it might not be valid anywhere, putting to risk the career of thousands of students.When Express contacted the registrar of the university, S Manickam, he confirmed that some centres were offering technical courses. “We have obtained legal opinion and a circular has been issued on Thursday, asking the centres not to proceed further in offering regular or technical courses or degrees,” he added.When pointed out that the degrees awarded by these institutes would put students’ career at risk, he said the syndicate would take care of it. He admitted centres indulged in certain malpractices and the university was trying to rein them in. When Express tried to contact the director-in-charge of distance education, R Ramesh, he refused to comment.
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