Seats for two courses at Chikka Aluvara go abegging

It was noon on Friday and only four students had got admission to the postgraduate Microbiology course of Mangalore University offered at its post graduate centre in Chikka Aluvara, Kodagu district.

The fifth student at the microbiology admission desk at the Mangala auditorium at Mangalagangotri – catering to the students seeking admission to Chikka Aluvara centre – was buying some time to pay the full fee.

If that student paid the full fee the microbiology department would have the minimum of five students to run the course. A teacher was seen asking the student to give an undertaking that she would pay the balance to confirm her admission.

A teacher of the department told The Hindu that if the fifth student joined the course, only five of the 16 merit category seats would have been filled up.

Teachers at the desk said that of the 10 students who joined the course during the last academic year, only eight remained.

According to them, the university starting the course on the Mangalagangotri campus from this academic year had hit the admissions at Chikka Aluvara this year. For the same course to be offered at Mangalagangothri campus, 14 students got admitted against 16 merit category seats on Friday.

The bio-chemistry course at Chikka Aluvara centre also appears to have been hit because of it being offered on the Mangalagangothri campus from the current year. Teachers said only nine students joined the course at Chikka Aluvara against 16 merit seats. Last year more than 20 students had joined on the first day.

Each course has six permanent teachers at Chikka Aluvara with five each being Ph.D holders. On the university campus both the courses would have to be managed by guest teachers. On the university campus, 15 out of the 16 merit category seats of bio-chemistry were filled on Friday.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> Cities> Mangalore / by RaviPrasad Kamila / Mangalore – July 26th, 2014

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