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Mumbai: The Somaiya group of colleges has decided to cut ties with state universities and apply for a deemed university status.
The group will approach the University Grants Commission (UGC) sometime this month for the deemed status. The UGC will then set up a committee and conduct an inspection at the colleges before granting the deemed status.
For the thousands of students currently enrolled in any of their 34 institutes, the deemed status will mean that the final degree will be that of Somaiya University. For instance, a student of K J Somaiya Medical College and Research Centre who now receives the final degree from the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, or an engineering student of K J Somaiya Engineering College, who till now graduates out of the University of Mumbai, will receive his degree from this deemed university after the UGC grants the deemed status.
The decision to apply for deemed university was announced by the college trustee. The Somaiya Vidyavihar campus was started by the late Karamshi Jethabhai Somaiya in 1959. Now in its 50th year, the group is one of the largest private educational campuses in the city with 34 educational institutes with 27,000 students.
Samir Somaiya, a trustee said, “We want both flexibility and freedom for drafting curricula and designing courses. We want to shift to a system which is more elective based like in the Western countries.’’
Elaborating on the elective system, he added the group wanted its engineering students to be able to pick electives such as political science or Mandarin or even life science.
The group’s chief adviser V Ranganathan said, “To begin with, we will apply for a deemed university status for some of our institutions. But then year after year, we will try and cover most of the institutes we run under the deemed status.’’
Sources said the group will first apply for deemed status for its management and engineering and education colleges. The institutes that will be granted the deemed status will not only be free of government regulation, but also from regulation by agencies like the All India Council for Technical Education and the Medical Council of India.
The group will approach the University Grants Commission (UGC) sometime this month for the deemed status. The UGC will then set up a committee and conduct an inspection at the colleges before granting the deemed status.
For the thousands of students currently enrolled in any of their 34 institutes, the deemed status will mean that the final degree will be that of Somaiya University. For instance, a student of K J Somaiya Medical College and Research Centre who now receives the final degree from the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, or an engineering student of K J Somaiya Engineering College, who till now graduates out of the University of Mumbai, will receive his degree from this deemed university after the UGC grants the deemed status.
The decision to apply for deemed university was announced by the college trustee. The Somaiya Vidyavihar campus was started by the late Karamshi Jethabhai Somaiya in 1959. Now in its 50th year, the group is one of the largest private educational campuses in the city with 34 educational institutes with 27,000 students.
Samir Somaiya, a trustee said, “We want both flexibility and freedom for drafting curricula and designing courses. We want to shift to a system which is more elective based like in the Western countries.’’
Elaborating on the elective system, he added the group wanted its engineering students to be able to pick electives such as political science or Mandarin or even life science.
The group’s chief adviser V Ranganathan said, “To begin with, we will apply for a deemed university status for some of our institutions. But then year after year, we will try and cover most of the institutes we run under the deemed status.’’
Sources said the group will first apply for deemed status for its management and engineering and education colleges. The institutes that will be granted the deemed status will not only be free of government regulation, but also from regulation by agencies like the All India Council for Technical Education and the Medical Council of India.
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