Chennai: Members of the DMK college students’ wing held a protest at Valluvar Kottam right here on Friday towards College Grants Fee’s (UGC) new draft guidelines for the appointment of Vice Chancellors. The protesters raised slogans towards the BJP-led Centre. On Thursday, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin within the State Meeting moved a decision towards the draft guidelines. Talking within the Meeting, CM Stalin mentioned, “This Meeting considers that the latest UGC draft guidelines must be taken again. They’re an assault on the concept of federalism they usually have an effect on Tamil Nadu’s greater schooling system.”
MK Stalin additionally mentioned that the New Schooling Coverage (NEP) is being imposed to spoil the schooling system. “The New Schooling Coverage is being imposed to spoil the schooling system…. We misplaced sister Anitha due to the NEET examination. NEET is stuffed with malpractices,” he mentioned.
In keeping with UGC’s new draft tips, candidates can qualify for college positions at greater establishments by clearing the UGC-NET in a topic of their alternative, even when their undergraduate and postgraduate levels are in several disciplines. Schooling Minister Dharmendra Pradhan introduced the rules for the appointment of college in greater schooling on Monday. It additionally contains modifications to the choice course of for vice-chancellors, together with the growth of eligibility standards to incorporate professionals from academia, analysis establishments, public coverage, public administration, and business.
As per the rules, the topic of the PhD diploma precedes the disciplines studied in undergraduate and postgraduate levels for college picks. Earlier on Wednesday, Kerala Increased Schooling Minister R Bindu referred to as the rules towards the federal ideas of the nation.
Attacking the Bharatiya Janata Occasion, she mentioned that it’s a part of the Centre’s agenda of “saffronization, over-centralisation and communalisation” of the schooling sector. Talking to ANI, R Bindu mentioned, “These tips are towards the federal ideas upheld by the nation…Just lately, UGC has began procuring every kind of interventions within the greater schooling sector by means of inflexible laws. That is an try to cut back tutorial high quality…Industrialists may grow to be vice-chancellors in universities. That is condemnable.”
