These institutions will be able to plan their own syllabus, introduce new courses which are market-oriented, improve the assessment systems without seeking approval from higher authorities.
Jawaharlal Nehru University, University of Hyderabad and Jadavpur University, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), have been granted complete autonomy from regulators, which means they will be able to decide on starting a new course, faculty, admission procedure and everything else without approaching the University Grants Commission (UGC). Ironically, all these campuses have seen protests against the university authorities and the central government in recent times.
These are among the sixty institutes granted graded autonomy by the Ministry of Human Resource Development on Tuesday.
There are eight colleges too in the list of institutes granted autonomy. St Stephen's too had applied for complete autonomy from regulators. However, neither St Stephen's not nor any other Delhi University college has been granted the status.
While JNU and HU have been granted complete autonomy, Banaras Hindu University, Aligarh Muslim University and English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU), Telangana have been granted Category-II autonomy. They will also be exempt from UGC's regular inspection but they will be subject to stricter control in comparison to Category-I institutions that have been granted complete autonomy. Institutes that have been granted complete autonomy have a NAAC score of 3.6 and above, apart from this, NIRF rankings of the institutions were also kept in mind while granting autonomies.
Savitribai Phule University, National Law University, Delhi; Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra; and NALSAR University of Law, Telangana are among the state universities granted complete autonomy. Many deemed-to-be universities, including Tata Institute of Social Science (TISS), are also on the list. OP Jindal Global University, Sonepat and Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Petroleum University, Gandhinagar are the two private universities given complete freedom from regulators.
These institutions will be able to plan their own syllabus, introduce new courses which are market-oriented, improve the assessment systems without seeking approval from higher authorities.
Eight colleges that have been granted autonomous status are mostly technical and science colleges. These colleges will be able to decide their own syllabus, despite being a college, conduct the exam, declare the result and do the evaluation on their own. The only connection with the university for these colleges will be the granting of degrees, which will still be done by the university. However, the name of the college will be mentioned on the degree.
Meanwhile, a show-cause notice of withdrawal of deemed-to-be university status to three universities -- including the Institute of Advanced Studies in Education, Rajasthan, for which the Supreme Court recently cancelled the technical education through distance learning, has also been served by the UGC.
What Changes
- Eight colleges that have been granted autonomous status are mostly technical and science colleges
- These colleges will be able to decide their own syllabus, despite being a college, conduct the exam, declare the result and do the evaluation on their own
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