Opinion: Don’t dump MPhil
K.S.S Sheshan | 02 January 2023 | Telangana Today
The recent decision of the University Grants Commission (UGC) to drop the MPhil course has come as a rude shock to many aspirants who were planning to join the course this year. The Secretary of the UGC in a notification has pointed out that as per an earlier notice issued in November 2022, the UGC has decided to drop the course. No reason has been given for the closure of a course that has been in vogue all these decades. Though the UGC has every power to introduce a new course or drop any existing course offered at universities in the country, the way it has done with MPhil through notifications seems arbitrary.