The current Anna University at Guindy withinside the town turns into a unitary organization below the call of Anna Technological and Research University, with a focal point on studies and better studying.
A new Anna University may be hooked up, and all engineering schools in Tamil Nadu may be affiliated to the Chennai-centered organization, in line with a Bill handed withinside the State Assembly on Wednesday.
The current Anna University at Guindy withinside the town turns into a unitary organization below the call of Anna Technological and Research University (ATRU), with a focal point on studies and better studying. The reputed College of Engineering, Guindy, the Madras Institute of Technology, A.C. College of Technology and the School of Planning and Architecture will come below ATRU.
Tabling the Bills, Higher Education Minister K.P. Anbalagan stated the choice changed into being taken “most effective for administrative reasons”.
He later told The Hindu that the choice had not anything to do with the Centre’s provide to improve Anna University into an ‘Institution of Eminence’ with an identical supply of ₹500 crore to consciousness on current studies.
“Managing the affairs of the engineering schools throughout the State which are affiliated to Anna University is ingesting lots of the time and strength of eminent professors of the college. In order to pay attention on better research and studies in engineering and technology, the authorities has determined to reconstitute the prevailing college as a unitary-kind organization with the aid of using the call of Anna Technological and Research University,” he stated.
The new Anna University and ATRU may have separate administrative systems and governing bodies, just like the syndicate and the instructional council.
Incidentally, in 2011, at the primary Cabinet assembly following Jayalalithaa’s go back to power, the AIADMK authorities had reversed the erstwhile Karunanidhi authorities’s (2006-11) choice to transform Anna University right into a unitary-kind organization. Consequently, 5 Anna Universities of Technology, in Chennai, Coimbatore, Madurai, Tiruchi and Tirunelveli, have been merged with the Anna University. It changed into additionally below Jayalalithaa’s regime of 2001-06 that the unitary Anna University changed into first transformed into an affiliating-kind organization bringing all engineering schools below its ambit, after de-affiliating them from the local arts and technological know-how universities.
Former Anna University Vice-Chancellor M. Anandakrishnan defined the bifurcation as “a completely unlucky development”. He told The Hindu, “They are searching at the incorrect cease of the problem. What they ought to be targeting is the way to deliver out the pleasant of coaching and studying and make college students employable.” Employability of college students had end up a query mark, he stated, including that graduates’ entrepreneurial abilties have been very low.
The State authorities had by no means been able to imparting price range to Anna University, he stated, pointing to different reassets of investment from diverse groups and the exam fees.
Mr. Anandakrishnan stated the choice might have an effect on schools and college students, who might now no longer enjoy the information of [the original] Anna University.
The college’s Vice-Chancellor, M.K. Surappa, stated ATRU might be tired of its price range. “The college changed into acquiring price range with the aid of using undertaking assessments and via the association process. Education is the State’s responsibility. They must educate, teach and offer human resources,” he stated. “The opportunity is to permit us to hike fees,” he added.
The new Anna University and ATRU may have separate administrative systems and governing bodies, just like the syndicate and the instructional council.
Incidentally, in 2011, at the primary Cabinet assembly following Jayalalithaa’s go back to power, the AIADMK authorities had reversed the erstwhile Karunanidhi authorities’s (2006-11) choice to transform Anna University right into a unitary-kind organization. Consequently, 5 Anna Universities of Technology, in Chennai, Coimbatore, Madurai, Tiruchi and Tirunelveli, have been merged with the Anna University. It changed into additionally below Jayalalithaa’s regime of 2001-06 that the unitary Anna University changed into first transformed into an affiliating-kind organization bringing all engineering schools below its ambit, after de-affiliating them from the local arts and technological know-how universities.
Former Anna University Vice-Chancellor M. Anandakrishnan defined the bifurcation as “a completely unlucky development”. He told The Hindu, “They are searching at the incorrect cease of the problem. What they ought to be targeting is the way to deliver out the pleasant of coaching and studying and make college students employable.” Employability of college students had end up a query mark, he stated, including that graduates’ entrepreneurial abilties have been very low.
The State authorities had by no means been able to imparting price range to Anna University, he stated, pointing to different reassets of investment from diverse groups and the exam fees.
Mr. Anandakrishnan stated the choice might have an effect on schools and college students, who might now no longer enjoy the information of [the original] Anna University.
The college’s Vice-Chancellor, M.K. Surappa, stated ATRU might be tired of its price range. “The college changed into acquiring price range with the aid of using undertaking assessments and via the association process. Education is the State’s responsibility. They must educate, teach and offer human resources,” he stated. “The opportunity is to permit us to hike fees,” he added.
Earlier withinside the Assembly, former Higher Education Minister K. Ponmudi (DMK) talked about that the identical AIADMK authorities had merged the AUTs hooked up with the aid of using the DMK regime with comparable intentions.
