PG without Graduation
Jibanananda Goswami
(Querist) 04 May 2010
This query is : Resolved
Can anyone have a Post Graduate degree (from regular or open university) or diploma without having graduation? as reff: please read the news http://www.hindu.com/2009/02/27/stories/2009022755171300.htm
If that PG is valid, then is it of same status with graduate + PG?
If the PG is invalid without graduation, and the student acquire a graduation after completing any such PG, will it have value?
Guest
(Expert) 04 May 2010
As per the judgment, Open University degree is not to be counted at par with that of Regular degree.
Even if a person (who has PG under OU), acquire a graduation degree, still his PG will not be held at par with regular PG. It implies that he has to study PG again!
R.R. KRISHNAA
(Expert) 04 May 2010
I agree with Mr. Siva subramaniam
Jibanananda Goswami
(Querist) 04 May 2010
Thanks for the reply. But the picture is not totally clear. See the example:-
DOEACC society says the 'B' Level qualification is equivalent to MCA (a master degree). According to DOEACC, (10+2)+ 'O'-Level + 'A' Level + 'B' Level is equivalen to MCA.
But 'O' Level or 'A' Level are not equivalent to Graduation. 'A' Level is equivalent to PGDCA (Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Application). So, here PG Diploma (A-Level) and PG Degree (MCA) can be done without having graduation.
Are these Diploma and Degree valid? If not, then if somebody go for Graduation after completing 'B'-Level, what will happen?
Parthasarathi Loganathan
(Expert) 05 May 2010
This is a clear case for litigation and is genuinely tenable in any court of law. Such anomalies need to tried and addressed to benefit the learned community. I fully endorse and support the instances quoted by Mr.Goswami. Flexibility in Education is the need of the hour as adopted in many developed countries. We should never rest back to court judgments which must have been pronounced purely based on specific instances and arguments posted by the learned brothers.
Jibanananda Goswami
(Querist) 05 May 2010
8.3 "UGC Regulations, 1985 regarding the Minimum
Standards of instructions for the Grant of the First
Degree through Non-formal/Distance Education" says:-
(2) No student shall be eligible for the award of the first degree unless he
has successfully completed a three year course; this degree may be
called the B.A./B.Sc./B.Com. (General Honours/Special) degree as the
case may be.
Provided that no student shall be eligible to seek admission to the Master’s
Course in these faculties, who has not successfully pursued the first Degree
Course of three years duration.
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"UGC(Minimum Standards of Instruction for the Grant of the Master's Degree through Formal Education)Regulations, 2003." says:-
(reff: http://www.ugc.ac.in/policy/masterdegree_regulation.html)
Admission:
2.1 No student shall be eligible for admission to a Master's degree programme in any of the faculties unless he/she has successfully completed three years of an undergraduate degree or earned prescribed number of credits for an undergraduate degree, through the examinations conducted by a university/autonomous institution or possesses such qualifications as recognized by the concerned university as equivalent to an undergraduate degree.
This is the controversy. A undergraduate degree (or equivalent) is required for admission in master's course.
What is meant by "as recognised by concerned university"? Are each university free to decide the equivalency?
Please explain it clearly.
Raj Kumar Makkad
(Expert) 05 May 2010
The legal provisions cited by you above are clearly establishing that the higher degrees have no value if basic qualification has not been earned so if one is not graduate, he cannot attain the degree of post graduate and if obtained then he as well as the institution awarding such degrees are liable to be prosecuted and such degrees are nothing but a nullity.
