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84 Curses, No Takers: After 3 yrs, Varsity Realises Rs 15 Lakh is Wasted Every Year on Exam Process Mihika Basu It's taken three years for Mumbai University to realise they have been wasting as much as Rs 15 lakh every year on setting question papers and readying practicals for 84 courses that have no candidates during the annual examinations. The candidates drop out mid-course. So this year, the university - which announced a venture capital scheme in its 2007-08 budget and is eyeing a listing in the Bombay Stock Exchange, hoping to raise funds for various upgrades and projects - will declare the 84 courses "dormant". Among those courses are: Bachelor of Heritage Management, MPhil in Defence and Strategic Studies, ME (Civil) in Traffic and Transport Engineering, Diploma in Industrial Engineering, Diploma in Environmental Pollution Analysis and Control, Diploma in Food Processing and Preservation etc. "Instead of spending money unnecessarily, we will prepare the question papers only if we have students registering for such subjects and subsequently the exams," says Pro Vice-Chancellor A D Sawant. University officials say the fault lies with the colleges, which send a list of students after admissions but do not update it before the exams. And that's been happening year after year. So why didn't the university act earlier? "We were hoping that some students would turn up. But it appears they drop out," says an official. "We will soon issue a notification whereby all colleges will have to intimate the university by a certain date about the number of candidates who have registered for a particular subject if any, subsequent to which we will initiate the examination process," says Sawant. "For each exam, we had to prepare three sets of question papers which were never used because there were no students," says another university official. The Rs 15 lakh, says the official, was spent on the entire exam process - scheduling, preparing questions and the timetable, coding and decoding and readying the final set of question papers, and appointment and utilisation of manpower. URL : http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=229752 |
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