The Joint Action Committee comprising university faculty and government college teachers have decided to protest the Higher Education Department’s move to introduce common syllabi for all universities in the State.
As a first step on Monday, the various teachers’ associations demonstrated outside colleges and universities demanding that universities be given the autonomy to frame syllabi.
Higher Education Minister K. Ponmudy said a few months ago that all colleges must follow a uniform syllabus. He said all arts and science colleges, irrespective of the university they were affiliated to, would follow the same syllabus.
