Members of the Joint Action Council of College Teachers' Associations observing a fast in Cuddalore on Tuesday.
CUDDALORE:
Members of the Joint Action Council (JAC) of College Teachers' Associations observed a fast in front of the Collectorate here on Tuesday in protest against a proposal to convert some government and government-aided colleges into unitary universities.
The JAC - comprising the Association of University Teachers (AUT), the Madurai University Teachers' Association (MUTA) and the Tamil Nadu Government College Teachers' Association (TNGCTA) - said that such a move would affect higher education. There was danger of these unitary universities turning into self-financing institutions, thereby jettisoning democratic governance and transparency in admission. The JAC voiced apprehension that over a period of time the government properties on which these institutions were set up, would fall into private hands.
The JAC further noted that the formation of unitary universities would lead to commercialisation of higher education as these institutions would collect tuition fees many times over what is being collected now, demand compulsory donation, close down the undergraduate courses, withdraw scholarships to poor students and deny concessional bus passes.
Formation of student unions would become a thing of the past. Above all, these unitary universities would not be under any compulsion to follow the reservation norms and to adopt Tamil language as medium of instruction. The “single- window admission system” would be thrown out of the window, the JAC said. The move would affect job security, service aspects and retirement benefits of teachers. There would be manifold increase in administrative expenses. In a nutshell, the move would be a step that would deny the underprivileged access to higher education.
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