Teachers oppose open course exam process

Updated on: Monday, October 03, 2011

The Kerala Private College Teachers Association (KPCTA) Kannur University regional committee has demanded that the university rescind the move to use question papers meant for internal assessment to conduct open course examination.

Association regional secretary Jayachandran Keezhoth said the alleged move would amount to gifting of marks. The open course concept, introduced as part of the choice-based credit and semester system, was originally planned as an opportunity for students to select a course of his or her choice apart from the main course.

Since the idea of Cluster College proposed as part of the system had not materialised, students in each college were forced to look for open courses offered by other departments in the college, he said.

Students were now denied the option to select a course of their own choice. Stating that many students were struggling to cope with the courses that they were not interested in, Dr. Keezhoth said that the university authorities orally said that open course answer sheets could be evaluated by internal assessment for granting grades.

The university authorities had assured at a meeting of the course coordinators that three different sets of question papers for the open course examination should be sent to the university to prepare the question paper, he said. This proposal would lead to gifting of marks.

A meeting of the association demanded that the university take necessary steps to end the uncertainty over open courses.

KPCTA regional president K.P. Muhammadali presided. Its office-bearers Balachandran Keezhoth, C. Janardhanan, A. Ramesh Babu, and V. Sureshan were present at the meeting.

Teachers oppose open course exam process

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