P. Raveendran, Vice-Chancellor, College of Calicut, has arrange a committee to handle the alleged sensible difficulties within the number of minor (subsidiary) programs beneath the four-year undergraduate programme (FYUGP) in small faculties and in particular topics akin to commerce.

In response to an order issued by the V-C, Okay. Pradeepkumar, Syndicate member, will likely be its convenor. The opposite members are Richard Scaria, Syndicate member; Manoj Mathews, Affiliate Professor, Chemistry, St. Joseph’s Faculty, Devagiri, Kozhikode; P.A. Ahammed Shareef, Assistant Professor, Zoology, PSMO Faculty, Tirurangadi; Okay.P. Vinod Kumar, former Principal, MES KVM Faculty, Valanchery; and Rajeev Thomas, former Principal, Marthoma Faculty, Chungathara.

Objections raised

This comes towards the backdrop of the objections raised by a bit of lecturers’ organisations such because the Congress-affiliated Kerala Non-public Faculty Academics’ Affiliation (KPCTA) and the Indian Union Muslim League-aligned Confederation of Kerala Faculty Academics. That they had claimed that the latest revision of a clause within the FYUGP rules would curtail the scholars’ freedom to decide on minor programs in a special self-discipline from the identical division that gives the most important (principal) course.

The KPCTA additionally alleged that the revision will power college students to choose minor programs they might not like to review, and that is more likely to occur in small faculties providing a restricted variety of topics. The organisation performed a protest assembly exterior the tutorial block of the college on July 3 and petitioned the Governor, additionally the Chancellor of the college. It’s learnt that the Chancellor has sought a response from the V-C on the difficulty.