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| Friday, February 01, 2008
Anna varsity directs colleges to stop third year campus interviews
All-India Council for Technical Education wants a ban put
in place
- Move follows complaints from parents
- Premier recruiters welcome decision
CHENNAI: Anna University has told its affiliated engineering
colleges to stop conducting placement programmes for third year
students. For students passing out in 2009, campus interviews
will only be conducted from June 2008.
The move comes after complaints from parents of final year students
to the Chief Minister’s Cell and the Anna University Vice-Chancellor.
The All-India Council for Technical Education has also advised
that such a ban be put in place.
In a letter to affiliated colleges on January 25, Anna University
Vice-Chancellor D. Viswanathan said that the AICTE chairman
and other academics feel that “recruitment conducted to
the pre-final year students is not advisable in terms of testing
the domain skill and behavioural skill of the students.”
“Not ethically correct”
With parents complaining that final year students who were not
placed in the third year are being neglected, Dr. Viswanathan
also pointed out that “it is not ethically correct to
conduct campus placements for pre-final year students when the
final year students are studying.”
While many premier institutions, including the government colleges,
already restrict placement to the final year, there are others
who have succumbed to the pressure of recruiters competing for
earlier access to the cream of the candidate pool.
“Companies are asking to come in early, because everyone
wants the first slot [in the placement schedule],” says
K. Jayashree, placement officer at the Jerusalem College of
Engineering, which conducted placements in the third year till
last year. P. Sharmila, a third year student of the college
sums up why the practice was discontinued from her class onward:
“Students take advantage of it, because after getting
the offer letter, they don’t bother to study properly
anymore…just enough to pass the course.”
“Some companies want to go in earlier. But that is doing
an injustice to both the students and the organisation…This
decision could not be mandated by the industry; it is good that
it has been mandated by the university,” said Thomas Simon,
vice-president of human resource at Tata Consultancy Services.
Mr. Simon says that “ideally, it would be good to go in
the eighth semester, but the evolution of campus recruitment
has pushed it to the beginning of the seventh semester.”
Cognizant’s HR director Sriram V. Rajagopal agrees, pointing
out that the IITs have mandated placement only in the eighth
semester, while most of the best B-schools conduct placement
only after graduation.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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