RECOGNITION OF OTHER INSTITUTIONS BY JAWAHAR LAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY
Section 5(13) of JNU Act gives adequate powers to the University to recognize for any purposes either in whole or in part any institution or members or students thereof on such terms and conditions as may from time to time be prescribed and to withdraw such recognition.
All these institutions are governed by separate ordinance providing adequate autonomy in matters relating to structuring of courses of study, evaluation of academic performance of students including pattern and schedule for sessional evaluation. Each of these institutions have Academic Committees which among others consist of two faculty members of the University and two outside experts nominated by the Academic Council. The committee is chaired by the Head of the Institution who is the ex-office Chairman of the Academic Committee. All these institutions have powers and functions corresponding to the Board of the School, Committee for Advanced Studies & Research in the School of Study. functioning on the University's New Delhi Campus.
To mention some of the functions of these Committees as entrusted to them by the Ordinances are: to coordinate teaching in Departments, to appoint committees to organise teaching in subjects / areas which are of interest to more than one department or institution or which do not fall within the sphare of any particular department, to recommend courses of study to the Academic Council, to recommend to the Academic Council rules for eligibility for award of degrees as well as names of examiners and moderators which according to the practice of the University have to be from the faculty members who are actually engaged in instruction of the course,to frame general rules for evaluation of sessional work, to approve pattern of instruction and evaluation of a course.
In line with University's policy all these institutions follow system of continuous evaluation as evaluation is considered as an integral part of instruction processes and is the responsibility of the one who is entrusted with the teaching of the course.
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The experience of the,University in this context is indeed a happy one and all of these institutions are well-known throughout the country for the quality of their instruction and academic standards.
The Academic Committees of all these institutions function under the overall guidance of the Academic Council which alone has powers relating to Schools of Studies of the University.
It would be of interest for the Commission to know that JNU has extended autonomy in academic matters to these institutions as early as 1972, well before the UGC circulated its scheme of autonomous colleges.
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