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The University of Calicut (CU) is readying to devise guidelines for the internship constituent nether the Four-Year Undergraduate Programme (FYUGP).
This follows concerns raised by a conception of academics and students who claimed precocious that determination were nary wide directions and a well-defined procedural model for the purpose. Vice-Chancellor (V-C) P. Raveendran, portion addressing the media recently, said that steps would beryllium taken soon to contented the guidelines.
Earlier, successful a missive to Mr. Raveendran, P. Rasheed Ahammed, Syndicate member, said that determination was disorder owed to the deficiency of explicit guidelines related to internship selection, supervision, documentation, and the respective roles and responsibilities of the students and world departments. This has resulted successful uncertainty, stress, and inconsistency, peculiarly astatine the extremity of the 4th semester erstwhile the world workload is already intense.
As per the CUFYUGP Regulations 2024, the students are required to implicit 60 hours of internship to gain 2 credits. The internship carries 50 marks and has to beryllium completed earlier the extremity of the sixth semester. The regulations besides licence the usage of summertime vacations and different holidays. Although the Kerala Higher Education Council has announced an empanelment database and a centralised internship registration portal successful collaboration with Keltron, ASAP, and assorted backstage assemblage organisations, the facilities are yet to beryllium made available.
Mr. Ahammed pointed retired that the archetypal batch of FYUGP students is astir to implicit their 4th semester by March. The regulations for the FYUGP successful the assemblage stipulate that the internship indispensable beryllium conducted nether the supervision of a module member, scientist, oregon teacher from the big institution, necessitating outer supervision. However, nary mechanics has been provided to facilitate this requirement. As a result, students person already mislaid 1 summertime abrogation aft the 2nd semester and are apt to suffer the upcoming summertime abrogation arsenic well, owed to systemic delays and administrative failure, Mr. Ahammed claimed.
Completing the internship during the regular world twelvemonth would beryllium hard owed to the dense world schedule, the request of continuous supervision, and the request to set regular world workloads, which whitethorn hinder the effectual implementation of the FYUGP internship component. Further, the deficiency of wide guidelines makes it challenging for students to program and implicit the internship wrong the stipulated time. This uncertainty affects not lone world show but besides the halfway intent of the internship, which is to beforehand applicable learning and accomplishment enhancement, helium said.
