VC Assam University to hold video conference with college Principal’s on 7 May

May 4: The Vice Chancellor of Assam University, Prof. Dilip Chandra Nath will have a meeting through video conference with all the Principal’s of affiliated colleges on 7 May, 2020. Though the agenda for the meeting was not disclosed but sources revealed that the discussion will primarily be on conducting of the even semester examinations of TDC students, starting of new academic session and allied issues.

It needs mention here that the TDC Even Semester examination, which usually starts in the last week of April got delayed this year due to outbreak of coronavirus pandemic and subsequent nationwide lockdown. As the lockdown 3.0 will continue till 17 May, so all educational institutions will remain automatically shut during this phase.

A Principal from a provincialised college in Barak Valley wishing to be unnamed said to way2barak that it will indeed be very difficult for the colleges with limited physical and human infrastructure to conduct examinations while adhering to the principles of social distancing. Moreover, as classes for the ongoing semester were disrupted, so still now major portion of the syllabus is yet to be completed. When asked about online classes, he said, “Look some of the teachers had taken online classes by forming WhatsApp groups, but in these groups some students only could be added and many were left over. So it will be an injustice to conduct examination based on what has been imparted online.”

Another retired Principal of a College from Silchar said, “There were no standardized parameters on conducting online classes. Course content imparted through online mode differed from college to college, department to department. Moreover, when more than 50 percent students could not be included in online groups, how can you conduct examination for all based on the classes taken for few.”