Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (SP)
Mangalore, May 11: Through a press release issued by Mangalore Jesuit Educational Society, which runs St Aloysius College here, its secretary, Fr Leo Periera, has requested the people not to get unduly apprehensive at the decision of Mangalore University not to recognize some of its postgraduate courses.
The society said it does not intend to violate rules, regulations and statutes of the university, pointing out that the college has its own academic council, governing body and other bodies as prescribed. It noted that these bodies have representatives of the university, state government, University Grants Commission, experts in the field of education and other eminent personalities.
The secretary of the society added that proposals had been submitted to the university sufficiently in advance, after following prescribed procedures. Wherever problems had cropped up, they were discussed with the university and state government. The college moved the High Court, when the dispute over payment of registration fee remained unresolved, he explained.
“The university had been approached for affiliation for these postgraduate courses six months in advance, and the state government had directed the university to grant affiliation. However, the committee that visited the college after nearly two years, recommended for the derecognition of the courses on the basis that regular, qualified teachers were not appointed for the courses, facilities are not provided and standard had not been maintained,” the release said.
While terming the above observations as not true, the society said that it would do everything possible through various platforms to solve this problem.