Final exams unlikely for students of state-run universities in Bengal – education

Students of state-run schools and universities in West Bengal won’t have to take a seat for their remaining semester exams this 12 months as vice-chancellors stated the method of analysis is sort of over and there’s no scope to include the UGC pointers and the Centre’s advisory to conduct the exams by September-finish.

The vice-chancellors of the state-run universities will write to the College Grants Fee (UGC), stating the explanations for not following the July 6 pointers that mandated remaining semester examinations by September 30.

The choice on the matter was taken at a gathering of the West Bengal Vice-Chancellors Council on Friday night, in which the newest pointers of the UGC have been mentioned.

“Resolved that each one the Vice-Chancellors of the state-aided universities of West Bengal will talk individually to the Chairman of UGC stating the explanations for not following the revised UGC pointers dated 06.07.2021 in this respect instantly,” an announcement issued by the council stated.

The state-run universities will, nonetheless, comply with the rules issued by the UGC on April 29 and the following state Larger Education Division advisory, which gave approval to a course of of analysis for publication of outcomes in each undergraduate and postgraduate programs.

“The analysis is sort of in the method of completion,” the assertion stated.

The state Larger Education Division has really helpful parameters for the analysis of scores primarily based on the final semester mixture, house assignments, and inner evaluation for remaining semester students.

The state-run universities are broadly following this formulation for publication of outcomes by July 31.

“We’re in no scenario to comply with the MHRD advisory. We’re already in the method of publishing the outcomes by this month. We can’t begin campus actions in the current scenario,” the vice-chancellor of a college in Kolkata informed PTI.

The choice by the vice-chancellors adopted a letter to the Human Useful resource Improvement Ministry by Principal Secretary of Division of Larger Education and College Education Manish Jain, urging it to re-look at the matter in the curiosity of the nicely-being of students amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Jain stated the state needs to be allowed to implement its personal resolution by not making the rules obligatory.