RAVI DESHMUKH, who paid Australian $8,689 (Rs 3.3 lakh) for a semester for his international MBA at Australia's Griffith University, will likely miss lectures when classes start from July 23. Worse still, he is worried he will be stuck in India till February.
The reason: The University of Mumbai has not yet announced the results of the third year Bachelor of Management Studies (TYBMS), citing lack of examiners.
The delay is proving to be expensive for students. Anxious about losing out on a semester, students are expressing their frustration online (See Woes on WWW).
About 5,000 students gave the TYBMS examinations that ended on April 28. The Maharashtra Universities Act, 1994, says results should be declared within 45 days from the last day of exam. This means, the TYBMS results should have been declared by June 12.
But despite a delay of a month, the uni versity has not fixed a day for declaring the results.
"There was a shortage of examiners," said Mumbai University's Controller of Examinations Prakash Wani and added the results would be de clared in "a day or two".
The university's non-committal attitude is not helping students like Manish Shah, who has already skipped the June 12-deadline for submitting marksheets at a Canadian university and thinks will miss the July 24-deadline for a college in the UK.
"I think I will just have to join in February," said Shah.
Sweny Rokani, an education counsellor at IDP Education, Australia, said three students had to cancel their admissions to Monash University; because they missed the July 12-deadline. "I have been writing extension letters asking for more time. But they (universities) cannot extend dates anymore," said Rokani.
Wani, however, said the university gives priority to students who wish to study abroad. "We give confidential results to authorities if there is a visa problem or to the concerned colleges or university," he said.
