Protesting against the Choice-Based Credit System (CBCS) programme introduced at the Ravenshaw University in the mid-session of the ongoing academic year, the undergraduate (UG) and postgraduate (PG) students of the university on Saturday appeared at the examinations wearing black badges. Although the annual examinations of the university had begun earlier, the CBCS examinations started from Saturday.
leading from the front, the students owing allegiance to the All India DSO have been campaigning against the introduction of the CBCS programme since long. “When the authorities did not pay heed to our requests, we decided to appear at the examinations wearing black badges in continuation of our protests against the CBCS programme,” said a student.
As per the UGC guidelines, in CBCS programme, apart from their main subjects, students are required to choose two more subjects from a prescribed course as their elective subjects to learn them at their own pace and the assessment of these subjects is to be done in grades on a credit system.
“Since the assessment of these subjects are linked to class attendances and submission of term papers, a lot of discrepancies are now being witnessed in the university as teachers appear not to be impartial in awarding grades,” alleged a student, adding that pets of teachers would get away with better grades even with poor attendance.
“Moreover, in the CBSE programme, a student is deprived of getting an in-depth knowledge of the subject he chooses as elective,” said another student.
The university authorities have, however, decided to delink the attendance of a student from the grade he obtains in this programme from next year. But official sources maintain that the CBCS programme is going to stay as the basic idea of the programme is to look into the needs of the students so as to prepare him for higher education in India and abroad.