Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Spike in student intake for postgraduate courses

Almost all the seats in government and aided colleges, available under CAP in MG University, have been filled.

The Centralised Allotment Process (CAP) for admission to the postgraduate programmes seems to have helped the Mahatma Gandhi University in registering an increase in the student intake this academic year.
A review of the allotment process conducted by the university found that the student intake in 2010-11 has improved considerably compared to the previous year.
It was found that almost all the seats in government and aided colleges, available under CAP, have been filled. The student intake in unaided colleges has also gone up, according to the report.
Pointing out that students from all districts took admission to the postgraduate programmes offered by the colleges affiliated to the university, Rajan Varughese, Pro-Vice Chancellor, told The Hindu-EducationPlus that the opportunity for students across the State to seek admission to colleges of their choice cutting across geographical limits has resulted in a change in the social and cultural composition of the student community enrolled in different colleges.
It is pertinent to note in this context that students from Malabar region got admission to colleges in central Travancore, he said.
Explaining that the principals of many affiliated colleges had informed the university that the colleges got students in all the postgraduate programmes, Dr. Varughese said that hostels in several colleges, which were affected by poor enrolment, have found a fresh leash of life following the increase in student intake. In Pathanamthitta, women's hostels of affiliated colleges were filled with students from northern Kerala, he said.
Self-financing colleges
The university has learnt that the self-financing colleges also benefited from CAP. The enrolment to these colleges improved with allotment made by the university. He said that the rural and less-known colleges were the major beneficiaries of CAP.
The number of students belonging to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes categories and other backward communities also increased at the postgraduate level, he said.
The review report found that CAP could reduce the cost involved in submitting multiple application forms for various colleges, as the entire process was web-enabled and online. Students were able to select the programme of their choice in any college by submitting a single application.
In government colleges all the seats were filled through CAP. Sixty per cent seats in aided colleges run by backward communities were filled through the centralised allotment process. Seventy per cent seats were brought under the CAP in aided colleges run by forward communities.
In unaided colleges, 50 per cent seats were filled through centralised allotment process.
Fifty per cent of the seats for unaided courses offered by aided colleges were also be filled through this process. LBS Centre at Thiruvananthapuram provided the technical support to the special cell of the university in the implementation of CAP.

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