Tuition & Fee Policy

Learners who enroll with SACAR to undertake a programme of study are required to pay all fees owing to SACAR according to the rules of payment for each programme. We reserve the right to cancel a learner's registration if they fail to pay their fees in accordance with the required deadlines. The learner would then no longer have access to our teaching and learning facilities.

1. For all programmes except the Certificate Programme, tuition is charged on a credit basis. For the academic year 2008-09, the tuition is at Rs. 200 per credit hour (for Indian applicants) or USD 70 per credit hour (for foreign applicants).
2. One-time non-refundable application fee is due at the time of submission of completed application form. 
3. Students are also asked to pay a one-time non-refundable registration fee, due with their first tuition bill before the start of their programme.
4. At the start of their last semester in the programme, students are required to pay a matriculation fee.
5. PhD students are also asked to pay special fees for qualifying examination and viva in the appropriate semester.
6. For all programmes except the Certificate Programme (in which the total amount for tuition and fees must be paid before the start of the programme), invoices are sent to the students about four weeks before the start of each semester. The amount due shown in the invoice must reach the SACAR office by the due date mentioned in the invoice.
7. An extension fee is also charged if the students are unable to complete the programme beyond the enrollment limit.
8. A re-entry fee is added to the bill for students re-registering in the programme after their sanctioned Leave of Absence. For the academic year 2008-09, the re-entry fee is Rs. 200 (for Indian applicants) or USD 20 (for foreign applicants).
9. PG Diploma, MA, M.Phil and Ph.D. programmes require either one or two personal contact programmes at SACAR of approximately two weeks duration each. Travel and accommodation expenses are not included in the fee structure given below and are the responsibility of the student. Accommodations (food and lodging) are available at SACAR at reasonable rates. In some cases, adjustments in these requirements may be made for those residing outside of India.
10. Refund Policy: 75% of the tuition is refundable if the student withdraws within the first two weeks after the start of the semester. After two-weeks, no refund is possible.

Plagiarism

Plagiarism is the copying or close paraphrasing of ideas, phrases, words, or sentences of others without acknowledging them as such or referencing the original author. It is plagiarism to copy, without due reference being made to the author, from books, articles, CD's, any electronic media, the spoken word or another student's written work. We regard plagiarism in assessed work as a dishonest practice that will result in downgrading the work, and in severe cases, cessation of further studies with SACAR.

Acknowledgement of an original source of all quoted material used in written work is made through the use of indented paragraphs, or by placing the quotation in quotation marks, followed by the reference. Paraphrased material too must be followed by a reference to the original work or author. Sources to which the student does not make direct personal reference should be referenced according to the text in which they were cited. Full bibliographies should be attached to all written work. Learners should use the conventions explained below in order to properly acknowledge your sources, but if the learner has doubts about the correct way to write an essay and avoid plagiarism, they should consult their facilitator.

Citation Conventions

1. Each use of the ideas or words of another must be individually acknowledged in the text. In addition, each work consulted must be listed in the bibliography. The mere presence of a work in the bibliography does not override the need for acknowledging each individual use of that work in the text and, though necessary, is by itself insufficient.

2. Any use of the exact words of another must be acknowledged by enclosing them in quotation marks, or, for longer quotes, citing the quotation in the form of an indented paragraph, and by stating the source of the quotation in the text or at the end of the indented paragraph. For example of the former: “The human spirit has ever oscillated between two extreme and opposite ideals.” (Mukherjee 1990: 26)

3. If only part of a passage from a book is being used, this should be indicated by replacing the omitted words with a short series of dots. For example: "All that is ordinarily knowable in phenomena is function ... It does not and cannot tell us anything about being." (Mukherjee 1990: 29) This applies however long or short the quotation and however long or short the omissions.

4. You may wish to alter the words being quoted so as to fit them into the context in which you are using the quotation, or to overcome the problem that the quotation may not make sense when taken out of its own context. Omitted words should be dealt with as above. Any words added should be enclosed in square brackets. For example: “Trouble is bound to arise if there is an unwarranted and illegitimate intrusion of [Science or Spirituality] into the other's arena. Science cannot dictate its conclusion to the man of Spirit any m ore than Spirituality has the right to impose its own on the scientist …” (Mukherjee 1990: 76) The words in square brackets have been added so that the quotation makes sense, and to avoid quoting a longer passage than necessary simply to set it in its context. The series of dots at the end indicates that the quotation has been truncated.

5. If you do not have access to the original source of a quotation but have found it quoted in the work of someone else, you should give the original source (which the author you have found should have quoted) and the reference where you found it. For example, a reference might read like this: Bonner (1958: 12), quoted by Mukherjee (1990: 208)

6. If you are not using the exact words of another, but are making use of one of his/her ideas, this should be acknowledged with a full reference in the bibliography and a page reference in the body of the essay: As Bonner has argued (Bonner 1958: 35), etc. It must be possible to trace where you acquired this line of thought.

Notes:

I. In the writing of the above policy on Plagiarism we would like to acknowledge Cardiff University on whose guidelines this policy has been modeled, and whose guidelines on Citation conventions have been reproduced in full above.

II. We reserve the right to update, add to, and change this policy statement at any time.

Extensions, incompletes, suspensions, and exclusions from study