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New system: GU gives details of BSc exams

admin — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 06:25:36 +0000

The Gujarat University (GU) has declared detailed information about BSc exams which will be conducted by the university following implementation of the Choice-Based Credit System(CBCS).

According to GU vice-chancellor Parimal Trivedi, as per the new examination system to be followed, the internal 30 marks which used to be calculated solely on the basis of the college exams has been divided into four parts.

The college exams will be of 15 internal marks while five marks each would be given for assignment, seminar and attendance.

The overall passing mark has been raised from 35 to 36. Of the 70 marks final university exam, the student will be required to score minimum 25 marks while minimum 11 out of 30 internal marks will have to be obtained to pass a particular paper.

The 70 marks of the final paper will have four subjective questions while the fifth question will be objective in nature and will include multiple-choice questions, match the following and other questions.

Trivedi said that the student who have 75 per cent and above attendance will get five out of five marks in attendance while those with less than 50 per cent attendance will not be given any mark out of five internal marks. Those who have attendance above 50 per cent will be given one mark.

Significantly, the students in science who were so far given only six groups in physics, biology, chemistry and maths subjects will be given a choice of 20 groups from the first year itself. These will include subjects like computer science, microbiology, electronics, environment science and others.

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17 colleges ordered to appoint qualified teachers for PG courses by GU

admin — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 11:36:28 +0000

After AICTE allows 17 colleges to run postgraduate courses, GTU orders them to appoint faculties with proper qualification by August 25 if they were really keen on offering the courses.

A high-level meeting of Gujarat Technological University (GTU) officials was called on Tuesday to discuss All India Council for Technical Education’s (AICTE) approval to 17 colleges to run postgraduate courses like MPharm, MTech, and ME. The committee has ordered these colleges to appoint faculties with requisite qualifications by August 25. In case these colleges fail to appoint faculties, they will not be allowed to offer PG courses in affiliation with GTU. “Normally only colleges that have taught graduate-level courses for four years are allowed to introduce PG-level courses. But these 17 colleges don’t meet the criteria. Moreover, they don’t have enough teachers with requisite qualification to teach PG courses,” said a committee member on condition of anonymity.

According to GTU sources, the four years of teaching graduate level courses gives colleges time to set up infrastructure that will enable them to allow PG courses too. But these colleges have no such infrastructure. In such a scenario, the quality of education will be affected. Postgraduation requires higher-level of teaching and guidance.

As per norms, for PG courses, there should be a professor and an associate professor, with one of them being a PhD. “GTU has relaxed the norms a little and if the professor has more than five years of experience in teaching, he can teach a PG course despite not having a doctorate. However, we don’t know why AICTE has granted permission to these 17 colleges to teach postgraduate courses.”

Admissions to begin
The admissions for M Pharm will be held from August 25 to August 27 and M Tech admissions from August 28 to August 31. The approved colleges have been asked by GTU to appoint necessary teachers by August 25.

If they fail to do so, they won’t be allowed to teach PG courses while being affiliated to GTU and the admission committee for professional courses will not consider them for the admission process.

However, authorities of these colleges say, “It is not always easy to get faculties to teach masters-level courses in Computer, IT and several other branches. Those who are highly qualified in these subjects are not keen to teach. So we have to settle for teachers who are less qualified but interested in teaching the subject.”

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GU launches probe into admission irregularities

admin — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 06:24:55 +0000

At least 10 commerce colleges affiliated with Gujarat University (GU) could be in trouble as the GU has initiated a probe into admissions granted recently by these colleges.

The GU began the probe after receiving complaints that students with more than 65 to 70% marks are yet to get admission into any of these colleges. Several students’ unions made their representations before the GU vice-chancellor in the syndicate meeting on Sunday.
Admission process in more than 50 commerce colleges affiliated with the GU had recently concluded. These colleges have the capacity to admit a total of 26,000 students. Despite this, around 7,000 students are still waiting to get admission. Most of these students have more than 70% marks.
The GU authorities have asked the colleges to furnish details on number of admissions and the cut-off percentage in their merit lists.
“After scrutinizing these lists, if we find that the college managements have not followed the GU’s guidelines, we will definitely take action,” said a senior GU official.
Of the 50 colleges, 26 colleges have sent their details to the University.

Source : TOI

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Campus to career mela in Gujarat University

admin — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 08:05:07 +0000

The first extensive recruitment exercise will be undertaken for the Gujarat University (GU) students on Sunday where students of arts, commerce and science will participate to get job. Some of the big names in the industry are expected to participate in the `Campus To Career’ mela to be held at the GU campus. Students will be offered pay packages ranging from Rs 8,000-30,000.

GU officials said that talks are also on with the industry representatives to give some relaxation to students who are selected for the jobs and yet want to pursue higher education along with earning their livelihood. “We intend to give jobs to at least 3,000 students”, GU officials said.

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Gujarat University launch courses in Yoga

admin — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 03:50:49 +0000

Gujarat University (GU) in association with Indian Institute of Yogic Science & Research Foundation is introducing five new programmes as part of its concept Nirvana. These are: Two certificate courses for yoga instructors, a certificate course in yoga for character building, diploma in yoga, health and character and diploma in Ayuryogam.

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Colleges urge GU to conduct FY, SY exams

admin — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:17:22 +0000

A World is moving toward centralize process while Gujarat University want decentralize exam system.

A body representing college principals urged the Gujarat University (GU) on Thursday to reconsider its decision of not conducting examinations for first-year and second-year students. The association said that if colleges were allowed to hold exams in FY and SY, then quality of students would decline.
Earlier this year, the varsity had announced its decision to give up the responsibility of conducting exams in the aforesaid years. It said that it would hold tests for only third-year students. Academicians say the move will reduce GU’s burden, but it will lead to malpractice by colleges, who may try to favour their students or issue marksheets to undeserving candidates.

On Thursday, the association of college principals raised these concerns in front of GU V-C Parimal Trivedi. It said that marksheets issued by colleges to FY and SY students might not be recognised by foreign institutes. “FY and SY marksheets will lose significance if GU does not conduct exams in these years. Moreover, some disreputable colleges may make issuing marksheet a business,” a principal said.

He said that when colleges used to hold SY exams, several cases of cheating and malpractice were reported. “This had prompted the GU to conduct tests in all the three years. The university should continue with this practice,” he said.

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5,800 seats available in BCom colleges in Ahmedabad

admin — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 03:11:05 +0000

Students left without admission have only applied to top 10 colleges. As many as 3,800 seats are lying vacant in several other colleges even as GU has added 2,000 more seats.

On one hand Gujarat University has issued advertisements in the papers that it is coming up with new B Com, BBA and BCA colleges and on the other it says right now there are more than enough seats available for these courses.

When contacted Vice Chancellor Parimal Trivedi said: “There are sufficient seats for B Com course and all the students will be accommodated. There’s no need to worry. Students who are left without admission have only applied to the top 10 colleges in the city. They have not filled forms in the other colleges that have 3,800 seats still vacant.”

He added: “Apart from that, I have also increased 2,000 seats. So, in all 5,800 seats are available for B Com course. Today, we had issued forms for admission to 2,000 seats. We received 1,099 filled-in forms.”

The scene at GU’s main building was chaotic on Monday morning as students lined up in long queues to buy admission forms for 2,000 new seats in B Com colleges. However, not adequate provisions were made to ensure the sale of forms goes on smoothly. GU had not even announced that the sale of forms will begin at 11 am. So students started queuing up as early as 9 am.

The admission forms were being given away from a single window. Police and university security guards were called in to control the crowds. A source at one of the BCA colleges in the city alleged that GU had cut down on number of seats per division

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BBA, BCA admissions enter final phase in Gujarat!

admin — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 11:16:23 +0000

The final phase of admission process for BBA and BCA courses will begin this week. The Gujarat University (GU) will start the ‘counselling’ procedure, wherein students will be asked to decide which college they want to join, on Friday.

According to GU officials, 5,232 class XII pass-outs have applied for admission to BBA, while 5,184 want to study BCA. There are 1,200 seats in BBA colleges and 1,500 in BCA. This year, NRI and management quotas have been scrapped.

The counselling exercise, which will take place at GU’s IAS Centre, will be wrapped up in eight days.

BBA Forms filled : 5232
BBA Seat: 1200
BCA Forms filled : 5184
BCA Seat: 1500
This year, the university has implemented a centralised admission system.

The distribution of forms among students who have secured at least 45 per cent of marks in class XII began at 10 centres on June 2.

GU to invite applications for new colleges Nine BBA and 16 BCA colleges are affiliated to the varsity. There is a need for more colleges, and a GU committee on Tuesday decided to invite applications for new colleges.

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Gujarat University affiliated BBA, BCA colleges Admission Started

admin — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 14:20:54 +0000

The procedure for admissions to nine BBA colleges and 16 BCA colleges have been centralised this year after instances of irregularities, last year.

The forms will be distributed at the following 10 centres in the state from June 2 to 10:

•   Consumer Stores, Gujarat University
•   Defence Bhavan, Gujarat University
•   St Xavier’s College, Navrangpura
•   CU Shah Science College, Ashram Road
•   Bhavan’s College, Khanpur
•   R G Shah Science College, Vasna
•   Government Science College, Khokhra
•   K K Jarodwala Science College, Maninagar
•   P P Chauhan Institute of Computer Application, Kalol
•   Balaji College of Computer Application, Vadodara

The minimum qualification for admission to BBA and BCA courses is: 45 per cent marks in class XII for open category and 40 per cent for reserved categories. University authorities can be contacted for information on admissions under NRI quota. This year, GU has done away with management quota. For more details regarding admissions: log on to: www.gujaratuniversity.org.in

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BBA, BCA & BCom admissions to begin on June 5 in Gujarat

admin — Fri, 28 May 2010 03:35:43 +0000

The admission procedure for 15,000 BCom seats in the state will begin in the first week of June. As many as 65 commerce colleges in the state are affiliated to Gujarat University.

Those seeking admission to GU-affiliated BCom colleges can obtain forms from and submit the same to the respective colleges between June 5 and 9. The first, second and third merit list will be announced on June 10, June 15 and June 18 respectively, said university sources.

The first, second and third merit list of candidates seeking admission under reservation quota will be declared on June 21, 24 and 26. If the quota seats remains vacant, they will be converted to open category seats.

The centralised admission process for 2,500 BBA and BCA seats will begin on June 1. GU has scrapped NRI and management quota seats in these colleges. Arts colleges will begin admission process on June 1.

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