Yogesh Avasthi

By Yogesh Avasthi | Apr 6, 2017, (Ahmedabad Mirror pg one)  http://ahmedabadmirror.indiatimes.com/ahmedabad/cover-story/degree-of-disinterest/articleshow/58054458.cms   Gone are the days when students would eagerly await a convocation ceremony to collect degree certificates or check their mailboxes for the document. More than 22,000 unclaimed degree certificates have piled up over the past five years on Gujarat University’s desks as the graduates have not bothered to collect them yet. These include certificates of external students who either failed to collect their documents at the convocation or requested their degrees be sent by post but provided incomplete or inaccurate addresses. Varsity officials said 3.5 lakh students enrol in Gujarat University every year. “More than 50,000 degrees are awarded in the two convocations organised by the GU every year. But nearly 40 per cent (or around 20,000) students do not turn up at either event,” said a varsity official, r...

By Yogesh Avasthi, Ahmedabad Mirror | Updated: Mar 12, 2017, ( http://ahmedabadmirror.indiatimes.com/ahmedabad/cover-story/gu-gives-pg-students-second-chance-to-ace/articleshow/57609532.cms If you scored low in your post-graduate examination and thought that your future is ‘andhera’, here’s news that will cheer you up. The Gujarat University is giving postgraduates a chance to upgrade their degree by appearing for exams once more. However, if you opt for this, you better study well as marks received in this examination will be considered final. All you have to do to avail yourself of this scheme is to fill up the examination form, hand back your degree to the university and give an undertaking that the new result will be considered final. Master of Arts (MA), Master of Commerce (MCom), Master of Science (MSc) or Master of Education (MEd) students from 2010, when GU instituted the semester system, can avail themselves of this scheme. GU incharage Vice- Chancellor Himanshu Pande...

By  Yogesh Avasthi , Ahmedabad Mirror | May 9, 2016, http://ahmedabadmirror.indiatimes.com/ahmedabad/cover-story/461-Colleges-5L-Students-but-only-14-admin-staff/articleshow/52178128.cms Gujarat Technological University (GTU) may claim laurels far and wide for its diverse courses, but it is an altogether different situation for the varsity when it comes to managing its own administrative affairs. GTU, which has 5 lakh students studying in 461 affiliated colleges, has been functioning with only 14 officials, thanks to its ego tussle with state government. The varsity operates without more than 400 key officials including registrar, controller of exams and chief accountant. While GTU has been without a permanent registrar for nearly three years now, it has never had a controller of exams; it is the deputy registrar who handles both the key posts. To add to the disarray, the term of the current vice chancellor expires on June 7 and the recruitment process is not likely to be...