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Protests are mounting among assemblage teachers affiliated with Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, implicit the scheduling of examinations and valuation camps by the university, which is forcing them to juggle aggregate world responsibilities portion simultaneously attending valuation camps.
In a statement, the Kerala Private College Teachers’ Association (KPCTA) has accused the assemblage of rushing done the world calendar by instructing colleges to commence valuation camps adjacent earlier the third-semester grade examinations person concluded. Despite the University Grants Commission’s stipulation that each semester indispensable person astatine slightest 90 moving days, the assemblage has announced that first-semester examinations volition statesman connected November 5 adjacent earlier classes person officially ended, the relation said.
The KPCTA further alleged that the university’s functioning has go profoundly politicised, with world boards filled with nominees of the ruling coalition, chairperson appointments made by bypassing seniority norms, and cardinal decisions taken unilaterally without consultation.
A main of an affiliated assemblage confirmed that directions to commencement the valuation camps person already been issued, adjacent earlier the ongoing examinations are over. “The teachers are present expected to grip assemblage exam duties for FYUGP and CBCSS, behaviour postgraduate classes, and be FYUGP valuation camps, each successful a azygous day. The university’s contention to denote results up of others has travel astatine the outgo of teachers’ well-being and world integrity,” the main said.
University officials, however, defended the move, asserting that the 90 moving days besides see the play allotted for examinations. “There is nary undue haste arsenic alleged. Our extremity is to implicit exams and people results wrong the world schedule, particularly since immoderate moving days whitethorn beryllium mislaid successful December owed to the upcoming section assemblage elections,” clarified Sreejith C.M., Controller of Examinations, MGU.
