PUNE: Forming a fee fixation committee for every graduate and postgraduate course, not more than five unaided divisions, production of proof of infrastructure facilities before proposing a new course are among the many guidelines issued by the Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) to its autonomous colleges.
A committee, set up by the SPPU vice-chancellor Nitin Karmalkar to frame guidelines for autonomous colleges, has submitted its report and the rules would be implemented from the next academic year.
The autonomous colleges will have to decide the curriculum of their courses beforehand. The SPPU has notified that the colleges will have to submit details about new courses and their proposal for autonomy to the SPPU before September 30. Karmalkar said that according to the recommendations, no new college will be able to start any undergraduate or postgraduate course without taking permission from the university.
In Pune, many colleges have either applied for autonomy or have been granted autonomy status and the number is increasing every year. The university officials said that in the coming years, more colleges would be granted the status and hence it was necessary to form guidelines with respect to the courses offered by them. “Considering their problems and issues, we have framed the guidelines so that there is a balance and the process is properly streamlined,” added Karmalkar.
Meanwhile, four years after its NAAC (National Accredita tion and Assessment Council) rating expired, Mumbai Uni versity got accredited with A++ on Tuesday. With a cumu lative grade point average (CGPA) of 3.65, MU became the best-rated public university in the state so far. In the new for mat, Kolhapur’s Shivaji Uni versity recently bagged A++ rating with 3.52 CGPA. SPPU has an A+ grade, but was assessed in 2017 in the old format
