Vels University — Poor qualified teachers, Poorly maintained management

This is to bring in your notice that a department like School of Education where the faculties are specialized in giving proper training the the future teachers are the ones who are having poor teaching techniques. It is such a shame that an institute holding a huge reputation and glitters on outside is merely providing any standard teaching.

Here's few examples of how the teachers behave :

1. The HOD herself showed up THRICE in the course of 1month.She never felt the importance of informing the students about her irregularity, so students keep on waiting for her thinking she might join the class (online).

On top of that, she had given us assignment on the first unit without even teaching us Anything!!

2.As the teaching mode is online, there is another faculty who is so unprofessional that in between her lecture she takes up calls, she disappears from the class keeping her video and mic off, upon asking her to take through the units once again she assigned one of the students to take up the responsibility and she disappears for the whole time. The student, upon finishing taking us through the units, kept looking out for the faculty but of course, she wasn't there...she arrived after 15mins, turned on her video and said she is sorry that she couldn't listen to the student's presentation as she had some work.

Well this is how the faculties behave here. They don't care after assigning someone to do their job...No appreciation either.

3. Teachers conduct lectures in Tamil no matter how many times you remind them that you don't understand Tamil. We have to ask for information shared in the class from our peers again in English. That seems you don't belong to the class to know everything.

4. They care more on giving assignments rather than teaching properly. It's a shame to inform, none of the faculties are educated themselves to teach. They fail to give a clear idea, they might have attained highly qualified degree, but sorry to mention they still need trainings on delivering teaching sessions in a comprehendible manner.

5. The management on the other hand is so poor, needless to mention, we are given an examination date coming up in 4 days- we neither have the timetable, nor the syllabus for few subjects. Everything is last minute and stressful.

6. Even after taking a handsome amount of fees, let me mention Tuition Fees in this case...it is going completely useless. The teachers themselves are inefficient in teaching, as a student we are the ones responsible to collect materials, do self study, do all our research, prepare our own notes on each topic ; So what's the point on paying tuition fee?

Addition to that they call themselves to be UGC and NCTE accredited deemed to be university, but without following their standards and norms. I really wish an inspection to be carried out to understand the real standard of teaching in VELS.

Also illegally keeping the original certificates of students which is strictly against the UGC and NCTE norms.

So many things need to be changed in this university. The saying is definitely true in this case "All that glitters is not Gold"!!