MCI - I

MCI inspection is happening on campus right now. They go to extreme lengths to ensure that they find a bunch of significant flaws in our set-up here, or our teaching method, or our living standards. or something.

For example:

• Our state-of-the-art lecture hall complex is just not upto their standards. its a beautiful building, named Interact. Its got lecture halls surrounding this central atrium. Its bright and sunny and beautiful. its airconditioned, has a whiteboard and a blackboard, a computer and a projector, wifi connectivity, and comfortable desks and chairs arranged in a amphitheater like configuration. MCI hates it because these TWELVE lecture halls are used, at different times, by MBBS students, BDS students and maybe B.Pharm students as well. To comply with MCI standards, we've had to build an ugly partition bang in the centre of Interact. Separating it into MBBS and non MBBS lecture halls. With, DIFFERENT ENTRANCES! Its like a form of academic racism.
• Our hostels! they hate them. we have round the clock electricity, wifi, hot and cold water taps, individual bathrooms (there are NO COMMON TOILETS), round the clock security, a coffee shop and general tuck shop open till midnight. they dont like that MBBS, BDS, BPharm, Biotech students live together in the same building. THAT is their problem. In what world class academic institution (and MU is pretty much that) is this sort of academic segregation sanctioned? my non MBBS friends had to move out of their rooms and into this other building. some of them had to do it while their exams were on. why why why? we lived happily together. this diversity in my corridor was quite refreshing.
• The beautiful Library. Once, we could sit wherever we wanted. Group disucssion room on level 1, private study areas on Level 3, computer lab, the major study hubs at level 1 and 2. Now? level 2 is reserved JUST for MBBS. this is so retarded.

i wonder what their problem really is? I love my college. we are good. we have standards. our departments are full of dedicated teachers. we have never had a single lecture or clinical class cancelled. in other colleges there's always a chronic lack of faculty... we also have the equipment, the facilities, the latest editions of the important books. online journals. we have a campus that functions like a campus.

i wonder how many colleges would be derecognised if MCI was uniformly strict with their inspections.