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The Delhi High Court has issued notice to Maulana Azad Medical College (MAMC) for allegedly allowing students with barely 30% attendance to appear in final exams.
The division bench of Justice S. Muralidhar and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw, on its own initiative, took note of a media report on the issue and asked the college and the Delhi government to give their reply by July 6.
"Since this is a matter of concern and also of public interest, this court takes suo motu cognisance," the court said.
The media report said that the MAMC had relaxed the rules that required students to have a minimum attendance of 70% to appear in the final exams.
"The Dean of MAMC will explain in an affidavit, to be filed by the next date, whether factually the news item is correct and in exercise of which power and under what rule relaxation, if any, was granted to enable students with below-minimum attendance to take their final examinations," the bench said.
The report claimed the biometric attendance system showed that more than half the students in the class did not have the requisite attendance to appear in the exams.
"The administration had to bow before the students' pressure and allow them to appear in the exams despite poor attendance," the report said.
It also said that the college had an average attendance of 20% for boys and 40% for girls. The average student attendance was barely 30%.
Source: igovernment
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Prabhakar Wed, 2011-06-15 16:51
Our mind is set by our educational institutes that rules are there in a book, deploy them if beneficial to one else simply keep them aside, e.g., Third Class graduates are not allowed to go for PhD, but we allow them, we allow a senior faculty with Bcahelor's degree to work as Ph D guide, teacher's performance appraisal is beautifully stated in Statutes but never followed in practice, etc. One such rule is of 75% student attendance. To adhere strictlly to this rule is neither suitable for faculty/institute nor for students. Many a colleges/universities are compelled to allow zero % attendance students to appear for exam. because (1) number of actual teaching days in a year happens to be hardly 50 days per semester (2) easy access to coaching classes and surfing provides a good material for fetching good grades in exam, (3) faculty can hardly magnetic to students (4) Refrence books of localites, etc. This is for UG, less written for better for PG. And no comments on Open University. Universities are simply glorified highschools, no research, no contribution to knowledge. We still follow MacAulay model instead of PBL. Teaching load needs to be reduced to half and e-learning blended with face-face to approach be deployed. Quality of a nation is decided in the womb of university. Who is at fault really? The policy makers? educationists? or stalwarts? Parents? Socirty at large?
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