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  • Don’t shift practicals: Colleges

    Don’t shift practicals: Colleges .

    The state government is facing immense pressure from junior colleges that do not want the state to implement the “jumbling system” for the Intermediate practical exams that will be held in February 2011.

    The government has already made two attempts to implement jumbling in the practical exams in order to check malpractice, but it reversed its decision owing to pressure from the colleges.

    In the jumbling system, candidates of a particular college appear for the exams
    in another college. The jumbling system is used for the theory examinations and it has helped curtail malpractice to a large extent.

    There were complaints that the managements of certain colleges were influencing the officials to get better scores for their students. These complaints gained credence when over 90 per cent of students in certain corporate colleges secured 100 per cent marks in the practical exams every year.

    The managements of the colleges have been arguing that jumbling in practical exams was “impractical” as many government colleges and even private colleges located in rural areas do not have the adequate laboratory facilities. The managements said that the performance of their students could be affected if they had to give an exam in an under equipped college.

    Meanwhile, the minister for secondary education, Mr
    D. Manikya Vara Prasada Rao, said that, “The colleges have submitted a representation to the government to reconsider its decision. The colleges said the government should first ensure that all colleges can provide the adequate laboratory facilities and only then should the government implement jumbling.” The minister refuted the colleges’ claim and said that the officials have identified colleges with good laboratory facilities. “They have already informed the colleges about the facilities and the equipment that is required for the exams,” said Mr Rao.

    Source:     DC

  • College projects on sale for `20k’

    Hyderabad, Oct. 27: The standard of engineering colleges in the state, which had already hit rock-bottom when it was reported that less than 10 per cent of the graduates were “employable”, have hit a new low due to the booming “project reports for sale” trade.

    Many “project report centres” have mushroomed across the state to cater to the needs of thousands of final year engineering students and are openly selling project reports for anything between `20,000 to `30,000 depending on the topic.

    Under the JNTU-Hyderabad alone, about 75,000 engineering students are in final year and are in dire need of project reports to obtain their engineering degree.

    Since there is no monitoring of colleges over project reports by the universities, the business is growing by leaps and bounds. Project centres have ready-made lists of projects in each subject. If students insist on using their own project ideas, they are charged a higher fee.

    Shockingly, the universities too are well aware about this unethical practice but express their inability to check this citing “lack of manpower” to monitor such a large number of colleges.

    There are, in fact, faculty members in private colleges who get commissions for recommending students to opt for a particular project centre for obtaining the project report.

    “Most of the students who buy project reports are those studying in private colleges where there is no adequate faculty and infrastructure to guide them to do the project work. It is not possible for us to monitor project works of all students,” admitted Prof D. N. Reddy, the Vice-Chancellor of JNTU-Hyderabad. He added that unless the government brings in stringent norms like ordering closure of colleges which resort to such things, the menace could not be checked.

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