Tamil Nadu plans ranking system to improve quality in universities

COIMBATORE: Going the Karnataka means, the Tamil Nadu government is ready to introduce a score machine in June 2018 to evaluate the performance of its universities. The proposed machine will scrutinise the performance of state universities, a transfer this is being criticised through professionals who say that without involving private deemed universities the exercise may not be aggressive.

Principal secretary to the upper education department, government of Tamil Nadu, Sunil Paliwal, stated, "We are in the stages of discussing the model of the ranking framework. This will enable us to take steps towards improving the quality of state-run universities which will indeed help in climbing higher in the National Institutional Ranking Framework."

The upper education department had carried out a workshop on November 7 for vice-chancellors and registrars of state-run universities to provide an explanation for the modalities of the exercise. "Another seminar is planned on December 8 where we will again discuss the implementation of the programme with the university representatives," Paliwal stated.

The score framework will have a look at assessing universities on 5 vast criteria - research, instructing, placement, public/peer perception and equity. "Besides this, there will be about 20 sub-parameters. We have collected records of the ranking conducted by Karnataka and we are evolving our own model," Paliwal stated.

Of the 22 state universities in Tamil Nadu, best two characteristic within the top 1,000 universities on this planet scores. Anna University, Chennai, and Annamalai University, Chidambaram, find a place within the World QS Ranking and Times Higher Education Ranking respectively.