Karnataka State Universities Act

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Karnataka State Universities Act

• Academic Staff College
• University of Mysore
• Prof. K.S Suresh
• JSS Law College
• Autonomous.
• Mysore

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What Ails Indian Universities

• If you plan for a year, plant a seed.If for ten
  years, plant a tree.If for a hundred years,
  teach the people
• When you sow one seed,You will reap a single
  harvest.When you teach the people,You will reap
  a hundred harvests

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Post Independence Scenario - Era of subsidies

• Three million students leave schools, every year,
  to join 417 universities.
• There are only about 150 Deemed Universities and
  26000 colleges to meet this demand.
• Average monthly Tuition Fee in India is equal to
  a cup of coffee in Café Coffee Day.
• The Fee ranges from Rs.30 to 100 per month,
  except in few Private Universities.
• Fee is frozen since 1960. It barely accounts
  5-6 of actual cost. Where as in US it is 60 and
  27 in China.

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Post Independence Scenario - Era of subsidies

• At St. Stephans College, Delhi for Liberal Arts
  course the fee is Rs.360 per year. Where as in
  US at Amherst College it is Rs.14 Lakh/ year.
• In Delhi University average fee is Rs.180/ year.
• Harward University charges Rs.14.6 Lakh/ year
• The Indian Taxpayers pay Rs.32,900 crore to fund
  higher education.
• Only 6,000-7,000 admitted to IITs after grueling
  entrance test which is heavily subsidised.
• But the salary they get is 9-10 Lakh/year i.e.,
  double the fee.

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Unscientific Fee Pattern

• Now IIMs and IITs have increased their fees
• 5 11.5 lakh (Ahmedabad)
• 5 8 lakh (Bangalore)
• 4 8 lakh (Calcutta)
• The hike of Tuition Fee in US and UK is 14
  every year.
• China Charges 27 of the cost.
• Higher education is regarded as private good
  for which market
• forces should determine the fee.
• Subsidy has resulted in poor infrastructure,
  lack of talented faculty.
• Govt is spending less and less by the year on
  Higher education.
• 1991 - 92 7676/ student.
• 1993 94 5500 / student. (Steep cut in
  library allocation).
• NASSCOM survey indicates that 75 of
  Engineering graduates of 1346
• colleges are unemployabl.e
• Only 10 -15 of students of 26000 Arts,
  Commerce colleges are
• industry ready.

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Pathetic Condition of Indian Higher Education

• Of the 500 top colleges/ Universities none of the
  Indian college figures.
• National Knowledge Commission recommends that
  20 of the cost should be met by tuition fee.
• Top private schools charge 1000-4000 P.M. Top
  students of these schools grab most of the
  seats of premier institutes like IIM, JNU,
  University of Delhi, St. Stephens etc.,.
• Upper and Middle class students reap highest
  benefit of subsidy.

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Pathetic Condition of Indian Higher Education

• Professional education seat sharing formal is
  6535.
• In TMA Pais case Supreme Court permitted
  private institutions to design there admission
  and charge fee accordingly.
• But political interference create problem in fee
  hike e.g., Lucknow University increased fee from
  Rs. 300 to Rs. 1162 which resulted in political
  unrest.
• Delhi University Tuition Fee is frozen since 60
  years at Rs.180, resulting in huge deficit and
  vacancy in teaching posts.

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Pathetic Condition of Indian Higher Education

• 417 Universities for 110 crore population
• India has 18 of world population
• 2.6 land mass
• People 25-61 age group is highest in the world.
• Nearly half of the population is less than 30
  years of age.
• 61 of universities are B grade.
• 23 are C grade
• 16 are A grade

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Funding of Higher Education

• Autonomy has not resulted in fee revision in
  college. Alumni
• donations are penalized.
• Heavy subsidization has not helped at tertiary
  level, in access to
• higher education. Admission at Tertiary level
  is as follows
• India - 9
• US - 83
• UK - 60
• China - 20
• De-facto privatization in professional colleges
  has taken place.
• Hardly any move of privatization at the level
  of University
• education.
• Heavily deficit and over extended central and
  states funding of
• Higher Education.
• According Knowledge Commission the funding for
  higher education
• in India is 0.7 GDP, where as it is 2.9
  US, and 0.5 in China.

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N.K.C. on Higher Education

• Higher Education out lay shall be raised to 1.5
  of 6.
• 1500 colleges to be added to current pool of
  26000 colleges to
• improve tertiary level education to reach 15
• Under 11th Plan, Planning commission has
  recommended for
• 2,36,997 crore for higher education, an
  addition of 47,399 crore
• to previous plan period.
• This is not sufficient unless heavy private and
  foreign
• investment is made in higher education
• Liberalization and deregulation is a must.
• Industry and Government are suffering from
  unprecedented
• shortage of funds and skilled labour.
• Indian academy should improve if 8 growth is
  to be
• maintained steadily.

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Education as a long term investment.

• US System.
• NEEDS BLIND ADMISSION SYSTEM- followed in 38
  US top private
• universities including Harward, Princeton,
  Yale and Brown.
• During admission students fee paying ability is
  not verified.
• Admission is made only on competence and merit
  and Tuition fee is
• determined later.
• Need formula is applied by providing financial
  aid.
• No meritorious student is ever denied admission.
• Endowment corpus
• Harward - 34 Billion
• Yale - 22.5 Billion
• Stanford - 17.2 Million

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US System

• US success is due to following reasons
• Appropriateness of Tuition Fee student and
  parents should contribute at least public funded
  universities.
• Tradition of honest revealing of income and
  expenditure by universities for documentation
  purpose.
• A tradition of Philanthropy which helps
  accumulation of corpuses
• In US 56 billion is given in student loans and
  aid.
• Loans and Scholarship are a must for a genuine
• and meritorious student.

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National Knowledge Commission Recommendations

• It has made 200 recommendations on 26 issues.
• Govt. support should increase from 0.7 to 1.5.
• To transform 550 million people under 24 yrs to
  be the part of Knowledge Society.
• Better asset management Universities sit on a
  large reservoir of untapped resources.
• Rationalization of fees - Tuition fee should
  recover 10 to 20 of the cost.
• Un-qualified and unintended beneficiaries to be
  excluded.
• Philanthropic contribution is declining and needs
  resurrection. It was 12 in 1950 and 3 in 1990.
• Need for reform in Tax and Trust laws.
• Other resources - Not purely as commercial
  activities.
• Rs. 2,70,000 crore allocation in 11th Plan 6
  of GDP for Education

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Comparative Tuition Fee

• Country Max. Tuition fee Min. Tuition fee
• in US
  in US
• Austria 746 746
• Canada 5000 1366
• China 2591 518
• India 85 20
• Mexico 1159 178
• Russia 12026 0
• South Africa 3293 1,085
• United Stated 6000 1600
• UK 1565 1565

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No. of Universities in some leading countries.
Sl. No. Country Population (in crore) No. of universities
1 Japan 12.7 684
2 USA 27.6 2364
3 UK 5.98 104 231 (Aut.)
4 Germany 8.2 330
5 India 145 450
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What can be done ?

• How many of us teach from the original text, not
  just the text books but the source books?.
• How many of us teach from the notes that we
  prepared years ago?
• How many of us have even seen a journal, leave
  aside opening and reading, after getting into
  this job?
• How many of us are aware of the current advances
  in our subjects?
• How many of us subscribe to magazines from our
  own money and read them to find out what is
  happening around us?
• How many of us debate about the events and
  policies around us and contribute to
  opinion-making?

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What can be done ?

• How many of us even know where our past students
  are at this moment?
• What jobs they are doing and if they are doing
  research, what are the areas they are
  researching?
• How many of us love teaching, truly love
  teaching?
• How many of us prepare for a class even today?
  There is a lot to prepare actually. The subjects
  are not dead. They keep moving ahead and the
  things written in the text books are where the
  subject was about 5 years ago. How many of us
  prepare for telling the students where the
  subject actually stands today?
• How many of us do not scold the students when
  they ask a question discomfiting us?
• How many of us realize that we indulged in as
  much fun and frolic when we were students and the
  current batch of students are doing just that?
  Only the medium has become different from our
  own.

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• KARNATAKA STATE UNIVERSITIES ACT, 2000
• An Overview

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Historical Background of Modern Universities

• Cardinal New Mans (1852), View school of
  universal learning
• Contributions by a thousand schools make an
  University
• Intellect may safely range and speculate
• A seat of wisdom and light of the world
• Establishment of Oxford and Cambridge
  Universities - 19th Century
• University of London 1836
• Kings College 1831
• Affiliating system under University

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Modern Universities in India

• Woods Dispatch 1854 (President of Board of
  Control).
• Promise to Encourage Vernaculars and classical
  languages.
• Establishment of Calcutta, Bombay and Madras
  University 1857.
• Education Commission of 1852 Lord Rippons
  Review of working of Universities.
• Increase of Affiliated Colleges.
• Inability to control the colleges by the three
  Universities
• Education made as Provincial Subject

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Establishment of other Universities

• Universities of Baroda and Mysore 1916
• Andhra University 1926
• Stalwarts and their contribution - Aushutosh
  Mukherji, Lakshmanaswamy Mudaliar, C.R.
  Reddy and S. Radhakrishnan etc., shaped modern
  Universities

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Indian Constitution and the Universities

• Art. 29 (2) Protection against discrimination in
  state aided institutions
• Art. 30 (1) Right to Establish and Administer
  institutions
• Art. 45 Direction to provide Compulsory Education
• Art. 46 Promotion of Education amongst
  inter-sections
• Educations under Union List, State List and
  Concurrent List
• University as an Other Authority under the
  constitutions
• Establishment of Universities Mysore University
  1916 under 1933 and 1956 Acts. Karnataka
  University 1949 under 1949 Bombay Act. Bangalore
  University 1964 under 1964 Act.
• Uniform Law under Mysore Universities Act 1976

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Karnataka State Universities Act 2000(Received
the assent of the Governor on 12.9.2001)

• Establishment of University each university has
  Territorial jurisdiction with perpetual
  succession and common seal. (S. 3)
• Powers to provide instruction, hold exams, carry
  research, confer honorary degrees administer
  colleges and hostels, collect fee, accept
  endowments, maintain discipline (S. 4)
• Open to all classes of persons Chancellors power
  to discipline, inspect and control (S. 8)
• State Governments power to annul the orders of
  the university (S. 10)

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Officers of the University

• The Chancellor
• The Pro-Chancellor
• The Vice-Chancellor
• The Registrar
• The Registrar (Evaluation)
• The Deans
• Librarian
• The Finance Officer
• The Director of P M E Board
• The Director of Students Welfare
• The Director, College Development Council
• The Director of Physical Education
• Such other officers of the University as the
  Chancellor may, on the recommendation of the
  State Government from time to time, designate

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Officers of the University

• The Chancellor (S.12)
• Governor is the Chancellor and the Head He
• shall have powers as may be conferred by the
• Act.
• The pro- Chancellor (S. 13) - The Minister
• in charge of Higher Education by virtue of his
  
• office. He shall preside over the convocation
  
• in the absence of the Chancellor

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Officers of the University

• Vice Chancellor (S.14)
• Selection State to constitute search committee
  the four members are nominated by the UGC,
  State, University and the Chancellor.
• No person connected with the affairs of the
  Government, University or College/Institution
  affiliated shall be nominated.
• A panel of three shall be submitted to the State.
  
• Chancellor upon consideration of merit, equality
  and social justice with the concurrence of the
  state appoint.
• Second panel
• Appointment not open to challenge unless
  deliberate violations of the norms.

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Officers of the University

• Powers of V.C. (S. 15)
• Principal Executive, Ex officio Chairman of
  Academic Council, Syndicate, F.C.
• Perform all such actions, as it deem necessary.
• In emergency he may take such actions and get
  approval of such bodies which would have
  otherwise dealt with.
• Registrar ( S.17)
• An officer of All India Service
• Member Secretary Academic Council and Syndicate
• Custodian of records Convenes meetings.

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Officers of the University

• Qualification, Powers and Duties of
• Registrar (Evaluation) (S.18).
• Finance Officer.
• Deans.
• Librarian.
• Director of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation
  Board.
• Director CDC.
• Physical Education etc.,

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Authorities of University

• The Syndicate (S. 28)
• The Academic Council (S. 30)
• The Finance Committee (S. 32)
• The Board of Studies (S.33)
• The Faculties (S.34)
• The Planning Monitoring and Evaluation Board
  (S.35)
• Such other bodies as may by Statutes be declared
  as the authorities of the University.

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Statutes, Ordinances, Regulations Rules

• Statutes (S.40) - Bodies, Hon Degrees,
  Convocations, withdrawal of degrees, Faculties,
  Affiliation, Fellowships, Posts, Recruitments,
  bequests, Fees, Service conditions, etc,.
• Ordinances (S. 42) - Student admission, Degrees
  Diplomas, Examinations, Management of colleges,
  Etc,
• Regulations (S. 44) Admission regulations,
  Recgn. of Degrees
• Rules (S. 45) Meeting Notices, Procedures, Not
  provided by others.

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Finance and Accounts

• University Funds (S. 46)
• Annual Accounts and Audit (S. 47)
• Financial Estimates (S. 48)
• Powers of Government to Direct Audit (S. 49)
• Annual Report (S. 50)

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Appointment of Teachers and Inter-University
Transfer of Employees

• Appointment of Teachers, Librarian (S. 53)
• Appointment in accordance with the promotion
  schemes (S. 54)
• Appointment to part-time posts (S. 55)
• Temporary appointment (S. 56)
• Appointment of Non-teaching, Ministerial and
  other Staff (S. 57)
• Transfer of Employees (S. 58)

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Affiliation of Colleges and Recognition of
Institutions

• Affiliation of Colleges (S. 59)
• Restriction on Admission of Students in a new
  College (S. 60)
• Restriction for appearance in the examinations
  (S. 61)
• Permanent Affiliation (S. 62)
• Withdrawal of Affiliation (S. 63)
• Autonomous College (S. 64)
• Voluntary closure of College or Course (S. 65)
• Recognition of certain institutions (S. 66)
• Inspection of Colleges (S. 67)

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Enrolment and DegreesUniversity Review
Commission

• Eligibility for Admission of Students (S. 68)
• Honorary Degrees (S. 69)
• Withdrawal of Degree or Diploma (S. 70)
• Appointment of University Review Commission (S.71
  )
• Karnataka State Inter-University Board (S. 46)

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Functions and powers of the persons involved in
the Examination work

• Duties of A Teacher.( S.73)
• Obligation to Perform Examination work.(S.74)
• Punishment for Abetment of Offences. (S.75)
• Prohibition of Private Tuition. (S.76)

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