Tuesday, 18 October 2016

Students protest against VTU rules

Fourteen engineering colleges in the city remained shut on Tuesday as students of the Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), supported by the NSUI, staged a protest demanding that the choice-based credit system and the critical year-back system be repealed. 

The protesting students said  the CBCS was not in the interest of students.  “In this system, if a student fails one subject in the first year, he/she will not be allowed into the third year of the course, even if he/she has cleared all subjects in the second year. Similarly, if a student has failed in one subject in the second year, but has cleared all subjects in the third year, he/she is not allowed into the fourth year,” said H S Manjunath, state  presiStudents also expressed their anger over the confusion in the 2016-17 examination results. They said that out of the four lakh students who wrote the examinations, two lakh had applied for revaluation.dent, NSUI. This unscientific system should be scrapped, he said.

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  1. Thousands of students of engineering colleges affiliated to Visvesvaraya Technological University boycotted classes across the state on Friday in protest against the university's revised examination system.

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