Thiruvananthapuram: The state government has not yet appointed an advisory council for the Kerala State Higher Education Council even as it is entering the last year of its tenure.
The governing council appointed by the government this month had to ratify all the decisions taken during the last three years in its first meeting.
Sources said that the tenure of the present KSHEC which was appointed for a four-year period in 2011 with former diplomat T.P. Sreenivasan as Vice Chairman would end in October 2015.
The reports ratified in haste included those on Industry Academia Linkage, Kerala State Accreditation and Assessment Council (KSAAC), Kerala State Faculty Training Academy, Autonomy of Colleges in Kerala, Kerala State Higher Education Policy -2012, Non- Teaching Staff, Choice Based Credit and Semester System and the Review of University Acts.
The government and the universities had already started the implementation of some of the reports even before they were ratified.
The governing council of the KSHEC had suggested common boards of studies in various subjects for all the universities of the state.
The council also stressed the importance of establishing the State Accreditation and Assessment Council and the Faculty Training Academy.
The board also suggested the setting up of a uniform academic council for all the universities. Kerala State Higher Education Council executive council member Lopez Mathew told Deccan Chronicle that he did not know why the advisory council was not being appointed. As per bylaw, the Chief Minister is the chairman of the advisory council.
