Merger of small departments with relevant departments is as per UGC norms: PU DUI

On the repeated observations and recommendations of the UGC and the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) committee, the university authorities are merging such small departments with the relevant and bigger departments. We will follow the UGC norms, said Professor Vig.

Merger of small departments with relevant departments is as per UGC norms: PU DUI

A day after the Centre for Nuclear Medicine took possession of its building on the recommendations made by the Panjab University (PU) Space Committee, the University authorities has now issued a statement to clear their stand on the issue. 

“As per observations of professional national bodies, the one-year training is not adequate and in the long term will have implications in the approval of this course by the regulatory body, the AERB, when everywhere else there is two years of clinical training in master’s programme and three years of training in the bachelor’s programme. On the repeated observations and recommendations of the UGC and the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) committee, the university authorities are merging such small departments with the relevant and bigger departments. We will follow the UGC norms,” said Prof Renu Vig, Dean of University Instructions (DUI), PU, as reported by the Tribune.

“The university will now review the feasibility and long-term viability of the MSc in nuclear medicine course, especially in the background of the PGI starting its own programme and lack of any long-term commitment between the institutes,” said Prof Vig.

“On April 3 last year, the PGI Governing Body had approved starting its own independent MSc nuclear medicine course and discontinuing the joint MSc programme with the PU. The decision was conveyed to the university. A request of the university to adjust the training of the 2021-2022 batch was agreed by the PGI authorities. The PGI proposal to start their own MSc programme and terminate the joint programme was mainly because the Department of Nuclear Medicine at the PU has only one faculty member. Thus, the teaching is not adequate and the same was a concern of the students,” said a PU spokesperson.

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