The state higher and technical education department has formed a committee to look into the technical glitches during the online examinations in October and November in different universities.
The committee is being spearheaded by the director of Directorate of Information Technology which is to also have directors of technical and higher education and vice-chancellors of universities as members.
Earlier on October 3, chaos ensued for the students appearing for the final-year examinations for the Mumbai University’s distance education as several students failed to receive a question paper on the link provided. Moreover, as per reports, the official website would not open at 1 pm for several others delaying the process. As a result, several students visited the campus stating their worries about losing an academic year negating the purpose of conducting the examinations online.
Meanwhile, earlier December 2, the Bombay University and College Teachers’ Union (BUCTU) requested the vice-chancellor of Mumbai University to postpone the first-year degree college exams. As per reports, the degree college teachers have suggested that the first-year examinations be postponed to end of January 2021, adding that that the university release an official circular as soon as possible. This comes in less than two weeks after the organisation, in their previous letter, claimed that several colleges have not managed to teach the mandatory 90 days before the examinations a result of the delay in admissions to first-year courses which makes it impossible to hold the examinations in the month of December.
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