Osmania University warns autonomous colleges against flouting prescribed guidelines

OU Vice Chancellor Prof. Kumar Molugaram, who convened a meeting with 38 autonomous institutions, recommended automating examination systems to reduce manual intervention.

Hyderabad: Osmania University on Tuesday warned action against autonomous colleges found deviating from prescribed guidelines. The warning came days after the university revoked Hindi Mahavidyalaya Degree College provisional affiliation over serious violations, including forging academic records and misreporting student results.

OU Vice Chancellor Prof. Kumar Molugaram, who convened a meeting with 38 autonomous institutions, recommended automating examination systems to reduce manual intervention. He instructed the institutions to ensure internal marks and semester-end marks align with normal distribution patterns and wanted the administrators to exercise caution before adopting relative grading systems.

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Apart from monitoring students’ attendance, Prof. Kumar wanted the colleges to hold only one advance supplementary examination in coordination with the university’s examination branch. He asked institutions to submit pre-and post-autonomy results databases to the university administration.

Elaborating the concept of autonomy, Academic Audit director, Prof. Srinagesh cautioned colleges against misinterpreting it as absolute freedom. He reiterated that the colleges remain accountable to the parent university and bound by its regulations.