CoEP, Fergusson College fail to make the autonomy cut
Pune: So near, yet so far.
That’s the story of institutes such as the College of Engineering, Pune (CoEP) and Fergusson College as they failed to make it into the list of institutes that received the autonomy status from the Union ministry of human resource and development on Tuesday.
Despite being among the top-25 engineering colleges across the country in the 2017 National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF), what kept CoEP away from the list was its non-participation in the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) ratings.
“We had opted for participation in the National Board of Accreditation ratings. It’s a more stringent system than NAAC. However, the graded autonomy to the institutions was awarded on the basis of NAAC ratings. We will, however, not start the NAAC process,” CoEP director B B Ahuja said.
Gergusson College principal Ravindrasinh G Pardeshi said, “We were expecting to be in the autonomous list. We have been getting good NAAC scores consistently.”
Another contender was Maharashtra Institute of Technology, which is now MIT World Peace University. Mangesh Karad, executive president of MIT Arts, Design and Technology University, said MIT wasn’t eligible to apply as it was made a university a year ago. He said, “It will take NAAC ratings to become autonomous. NAAC grading is done after two batches pass out of a university.”
Army Institute of Technology principal BP Patil said, “The colleges that got autonomythem have a NAAC score of 3.25 and above. Our score was 3.06 and we missed the status by a small margin.”
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