VC clarifies on exam pattern of autonomous colleges

Addressing a press meet here on Friday, he said the Governor in his letter dated November 30, stated that those students who will be completing their courses during the year 2010-11 and onwards, the University will issue the degree certificates as per the Mangalore University regulations and scheme of examinations.

He said the University will send letter to all the autonomous colleges coming under the jurisdiction of the University on Saturday itself.

It may be recalled that two autonomous colleges namely St Aloysius and St Agnes college had adopted different pattern of internal and external assessment for their students thereby violating the University regulations.

The deviation of university regulation continued for three years and a meeting held under the chairmanship of Minister for Higher Education on August 12, 2010 urged both the colleges to convert the marks secured by the students of the colleges from the academic year 2007-08 to 2010-11 from 70:30 and 50:50 pattern to 80:20 pattern as per the university regulations.

However, when both the colleges approached the government stating that difficulties in implementing the decision, Governor H R Bharadwaj exercising the powers conferred under Section 9 of Karnataka State Universities Act 2000 directed Mangalore University to consider the internal assessment of the colleges to award the degree certificates on October 21.

However, now the order has been modified. As per the direction of the Governor, action is being taken to award degrees for those students who have completed their degrees during 2008-09 to 20090-10 (both UG and PG) in the forthcoming annual convocation, he added.