Autonomous certificates

The autonomous colleges in Kochi have announced that from next June onwards they would offer a re-designed curriculum focusing on student attributes and ensuring their holistic development. The colleges would go for an approximate 20 per cent change in the existing curriculum from the academic year 2015-16 for its undergraduate and postgraduate courses.

It seems that what is going in these colleges are superior to that in affiliated colleges. But in fact Board of Studies in these colleges is constituted with lesser experts and their decision in re-structuring syllabus would become disastrous. Teaching in these colleges is only a side business and the main work is clerical. The claim of the governing council chairman of these colleges that re-structured programmes should address the needs of the society besides having relevance to the regional and national developmental needs is mere rhetoric.

Actually nothing of the serious sort would take place in these colleges. The degree certificates issued to students of these colleges lack acceptance in other universities and abroad as these colleges are little known outside.

K A Solaman