Mumbai: Around 400 representatives from colleges across the stateincluding trustees, principals, teachers, attended a state-organised workshop on cluster universitiesat Sydenham College, Churchgate.
Besides colleges aspiring to convert into cluster universities, there were others who also plan to work towards it in the future and were keen on understanding the guidelines.
Higher education minister Chandrakant Patil re-assured the participants that existing grant-in aid will continue even after the cluster university status, said an official. He told the participants that scholarships, reservation norms and other benefits will continue. Shailendra Deolankar, director, higher education told TOI it is a golden opportunity for colleges to convert into multidisciplinary entities and to reduce the dependency on parent universities. It will be a step towards academic decentralization, he added. tnn
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Besides colleges aspiring to convert into cluster universities, there were others who also plan to work towards it in the future and were keen on understanding the guidelines.
Higher education minister Chandrakant Patil re-assured the participants that existing grant-in aid will continue even after the cluster university status, said an official. He told the participants that scholarships, reservation norms and other benefits will continue. Shailendra Deolankar, director, higher education told TOI it is a golden opportunity for colleges to convert into multidisciplinary entities and to reduce the dependency on parent universities. It will be a step towards academic decentralization, he added. tnn
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