{"id":294,"date":"2011-10-24T12:00:47","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T06:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcurocks.wordpress.com\/?p=294"},"modified":"2011-10-24T12:00:47","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T06:30:47","slug":"diy-ph-ds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramramaswamy.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/24\/diy-ph-ds\/","title":{"rendered":"DIY Ph D's"},"content":{"rendered":"

P. Sreekumar<\/strong><\/span> of the Department of Dravidian & Computational Linguistics at the Dravidian University in Kuppam, AP, sent out an anguished email on the University Grants Commission (UGC) that has lifted a two-year ban on distance M Phil and Ph D courses.<\/p>\n

The move comes after widespread protests by various universities. Many Open Learning Universities like IGNOU were protesting the ban on the ground that their respective laws, passed by Parliament or legislatures, allowed them to offer such courses.<\/em><\/p>\n


\nSpeaking on the development, IGNOU vice-chancellor Rajasekharan Pillai said, \u201cWe will follow the rules but our regulations are already stricter than those of the UGC.\u201d<\/em>UGC held a meeting on the issue last month, deciding to lift the ban. \u201cAn open university may be permitted to conduct MPhil\/PhD programmes through distant education mode subject to condition that it does so strictly as per the provisions of the UGC Regulations,\u201d said the minutes of the meeting.<\/em><\/p>\n

Although, UGC has lifted the ban but it has put another condition for Phd \u2014 the principal guide should be from the open university. The UGC had clamped the bar by notifying a rule \u2014 the Minimum Standards and Procedure for Awards of MPhil\/PhD Degree Regulation \u2014 in 2009 saying research courses in the distant mode were of poor quality.<\/em><\/p>\n

The regulations had put a question mark on the future of nearly 10,000 students pursuing such courses across the country.\u201cThere should not be any blanket ban on MPhil or PhD in distance mode. If institutions meet the required quality parameters, they should be allowed to offer such courses,\u201d said academic M. Madhava Menon, who has been asked by the HRD ministry to draft a policy on distance education. He said he would submit his report next month.<\/em><\/p>\n

Inadequate infrastructure of many open universities is also a concern for carrying out research work.\u00a0<\/em>A UGC official said the commission\u2019s regulations were silent on the facilities, and a panel headed by academic S. P. Thyagrajan had been set up to suggest the requirements. \u201cWe will meet on September 15 to lay the guidelines,\u201d Thyagrajan said.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Well, its one step from here to so-called Universities like those Internet Academies that offer you a Ph D for $725. As one of these advertises, \u00a0In order to get your desired degree, you can start now by getting registered with W**d University. Once you get registered, your email address will become your log-in id for future use and you’ll always provide the same password as you are doing at the time of registration. This information will allow you to return anytime and continue with the process of getting your desired degree from W**d University.<\/em><\/p>\n

We wish you good luck and thank you for choosing W**d University to start your journey towards success.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

I believe the similar facilities are offered in various bucket shops in Ameerpet. You can easily purchase “original” theses in any subject of your choice, and at any level you desire… from the M A\/ M Tech upwards, to the D. Phil. And submit them to any UGC University of your choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

P. Sreekumar of the Department of Dravidian & Computational Linguistics at the Dravidian University in Kuppam, AP, sent out an anguished email on the University Grants Commission (UGC) that has lifted a two-year ban on distance M Phil and Ph D courses. The move comes after widespread protests by various universities. Many Open Learning Universities […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paG6mN-4K","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramramaswamy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramramaswamy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramramaswamy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramramaswamy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramramaswamy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ramramaswamy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramramaswamy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramramaswamy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramramaswamy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}