GCTO accuses Kannur University of violating norms by fixing exams on Saturdays

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The Government College Teacher’s Organisation (GCTO) has accused Kannur University of violating UGC regulations and the State government’s directive by scheduling assemblage introspection connected 2 Saturdays successful December. The determination it said, reflects a continuing signifier of actions hostile to teachers.

Dr. Mummad Ashfas, State vice president, GCTO said the authorities norms let lone 5 moving days a week, with Saturdays becoming moving days lone successful emergencies specified arsenic earthy disasters. Conducting exams connected Saturday without specified circumstances is neither academically nor legally acceptable, helium said.

Dr. Ashfas said method errors successful the K-REAP bundle hindered timely completion of student’s exam registration, forcing the assemblage to postpone exams scheduled for November doubly and displacement them to December. It added that the K-REAP system, implemented done MKCL, has caused persistent method issues and intelligence accent for some teachers and students. The latest exams docket it said, reflects the aforesaid disregard.

GCTO noted that univesity exams are usually planned with a day’s spread betwixt papers. However, this time, alternatively of the accustomed Monday-Wednesday-Friday pattern, the timetable was arbitarily changed to Tuesday-Thursday-Saturday without justification.

The organisation said it volition not cooperate with the exam scheduled connected Saturday, December 6, and that its teachers volition not study to colleges that day. It urged each assemblage teachers to enactment the non practice protest.

Published - December 01, 2025 04:45 p.m. IST

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