The continued acrimony between the A.P. State Council of Higher Education (APSCHE) and the Telangana State Council of Higher Education (TSCHE) is spilling on to the ratification of management seats in various courses and the colleges caught in a fix.
Many colleges in Telangana have applied to the APSCHE for ratification of admissions in the management quota treating it as a regular feature. The APSCHE on its part has ratified the admissions in the colleges it received the requests from after considering all the aspects.
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However, the universities concerned are now treating such ratifications as “invalid” and are insisting on fresh ratification from the TSCHE. “With the MBA exams around, we are now forced to get the whole process done again,” the correspondent of a college rued. He says there were no clear instructions from TSCHE or the university on the issue and so applied to the APSCHE, which they thought was the ratifying authority.
More than 100 MBA colleges face similar problems apart from colleges offering other professional courses in Telangana. A professor of management working in a private college said students are worried. “We don’t know whether TSCHE will approve the list on time or else students will have to forego the exams,” he feared.
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However, an official from Osmania University clarified that they had put up the instructions on the university website in September itself. “It is inserted in some inside page, which is very hard to notice.
The TSCHE could have issued a public notice to all the colleges in Telangana to apply to TSCHE only for all academic purposes,” the correspondent of a college said.
The TSCHE Chairman, T. Papi Reddy, charged some colleges with having “deliberately” applied to APSCHE to “belittle” TSCHE and “this was not acceptable.” “We had instructed all the universities in September to inform the colleges. But some chose to apply to APSCHE while some applied to both.”
He, however, said that colleges need not worry and their lists will be approved if they give an undertaking treating it as a “first mistake.”