The other day, I had been to a reputed Government
College in the city accredited with ‘A’Grade. As I had arrived in the
college quite early for an academic work,
I had time to interact with the faculty.
My curiosity in finding out those aspects that led the college to acquire an
‘A’ Grade made me inquire about the academic programmes in the college. I was
told that over the years, things have
completely changed in this once reputed college. Though the NAAC Peer Team had accredited the college with
an ‘A’ Grade, the public have their own
accreditation! So only the ‘third’ or ‘fourth best’ of the students who join
the Arts and Science stream, come to this college!
A
more startling revelation came from a faculty closely associated with the
accreditation process. From his experience he has found that, once a teacher
registers for research, he/she willingly
divorces himself/ herself from any serious preparation for teaching students.
Such teachers, never ever take the extra pain to raise the competence of
students! And what follows after the securing of a PhD is assiduous preparation
for attending seminars, presenting
papers and publishing of articles to
meet UGC guidelines!
As
I waited to fulfil the purpose of my visit, came shouts of slogans, of a
particular student’s union, against the
Principal and teachers of the college,
for banning a Film Festival for which they had already sold the tickets!
Soon the striking students were seen
driving out of class rooms those keen on academics with occasional
threats! I later realized that this was
a tactful move to make it convenient for the students to attend the Film Festival. While all this was happening, the teachers of
the college promptly entered abandoned class
rooms as per the bell and returned to
their Staff Room with the tell tale message on their faces… Phew...another day of rest!
A
faculty of the college, affirmed that
the present power struggle
between the Students Union and the College
Teachers is likely to continue for a few days. This is
because the struggle is of ominous importance and that it is the winner of this struggle who will ultimately be having an upper hand in the conduct of academic programmes of the college for the current academic year!
With
concern, I inquired whether this will affect their college accreditation. To
this, my friend with insouciance assured
me that during re-accreditation, it will be a still better grade .. simply because such insalubrious facts are always discretely suppressed !
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