Tuition ban on Engineering teachers

Thiruvananthapuram: The higher education department has issued an order banning private tuition by engineering college teachers. This is following complaints that some teachers of self-financing engineering colleges engaged in irregularities during revaluation to aid students they give tuition to.

The order wanted the colleges to ensure that their faculty did not give private tuitions after October 12. The order was following a recent incident in which a teacher at a self-financing engineering college in Kadakkal had replaced the original answer papers of some students who failed in the examinations with a new one to ensure that these students passed the examination. The higher education department decided to initiate steps to ban private tuitions based on the complaints filed on the issue by student members of the Kerala University senate.

Earlier, the file relating to the issue was marked by the vice chancellor P K Radhakrishnan to be sent to the home department in March this year for further inquiry. However, the inquiry into the incident has reached nowhere. This file had gone missing soon afterwards. The file mysteriously reappeared in the section soon after news relating to malpractices in valuation appeared in the media.

The issue was earlier discussed at a syndicate meeting before the end of the tenure of the previous syndicate ended.

This teacher was later banned permanently from valuation. The university also registered a police case against the teacher. In case of aided and Government teachers, the university could recommend action against them. However, in case of self-financing colleges the university did not have any direct control over them.