Vice-chancellors in Telangana go back to school
Govt to send them to the Union human resources development ministry to learn about education laws
By : DC Correspondent
Update: 2015-03-05 09:18 GMT
Hyderabad: The Telangana government is extremely unhappy with the functioning of universities. Vice-chancellors, registrars and senior officials of varsities will now go back to school as the government intends to send them to the Union human resources development ministry to learn about education laws. Several Modules are also being designed to make them learn accounting. The idea was mooted after the change of guard at the education ministry. The ministry observed that university authorities often do not have knowledge about education laws.
“We have seen that they don’t know the laws. They might know the laws of the 1990s, but there have been many amendments which are not known to them. So when it comes to us we have to correct the issue in the file,” an official said.
The universities do not even have proper accounts. Recently, the finance officers of Osmania University ‘forgot’ to include grants for campus beautification in the Budget proposals. The officials also state that most of the time of the university authorities is spent in administration.
“They do not have enough time for academics. Universities are supposed to do the required research. How can they do a good job in research when they are stuck in administration. We want to develop a team of highly skilled officers in each university who are experts in the administration,” the official said.