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Unit 14: Promoters of Library and Information Services

This is the best way to watch whether the funds are going into right channel or not. Notes
The content under this heading has been taken from “Report of the UGC Committee towards new
educational management”.

Assessment criteria for the institutional performance
The success of the educational institutions is judged by the achievements of its students and the
faculty. Higher their achievements greater will be the success of the institution. The success of an
institution could also be judged by its image in the outside world. There are internal matters also
for the assessment of any institution.
The internal matters may relate to students like their admission, examination, achievements in sports
and games, cultural activities etc. One of the assessment criteria could be the number of application
and selection from outside the University for faculty. The number of working days, funds raised by
the institution, development programmes could also be the criteria. The other evaluation factors
are whether the institution has got all the necessary infrastructure in terms of men and materials,
whether the library and laboratories are fully equipped or not, whether the teachers are duly qualified
or not and other such points.

Problems on part of universities

There is College Development Councils (CDC) in central and state universities to solve the problems
of the universities. These are set up by universities itself. If the affiliated colleges of universities
have any problem, then they approach to CDC and then CDC tries to solve their problems. If the
problems are related to affiliating university, then CDC approaches to the University and if they
have financial problems then it goes to UGC. However, for Delhi Colleges there is Dean of College
and not CDC. UGC has set up its regional offices also who look after the problems of the universities
of concerned region.

14.6.14 Other Issues Related to Universities and the Extent of UGC

There are other issues like, fee, library and laboratory charges, syllabus, canteen, electricity and
others, which are a bit confusing like who regulates and reviews it. Shakti Dutt, Section Officer,
UGC told me that UGC has given guidelines for the syllabus i.e. the basic outline for what should
be in the syllabus and all the universities including central and state follow these guidelines.
However, whatever changes take place in the syllabus is done by universities itself but under the
limit of guidelines of UGC.
Fee is an issue, which always draws the attention of the public. For higher education, if fee increases
then people protest it because there are students from poor background also. According to the UGC
Act, 1956 UGC decides the fee structure in universities. The central universities follow the instructions
of UGC but its up to state universities that they follow it or not. In other cases also, the UGC can
enforce its will on central universities but for state universities it is not obligatory. They can charge
fee according to their will but under a limit as UGC looks after the upper limit of the fee. For other
charges like, library, laboratory and electricity charges, UGC keep checks central universities. State
universities work under the eyes of state governments.
People are sometimes keen to know that to what extent UGC intervenes the day to day working of
universities like does it interfere that how they are building their canteen, how they are tackling
problems which are there because they are in that region like Bihar where there are strikes and less
working days than mentioned by UGC and problems of Eastern States. As far as canteen issue is

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