APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University to detain laggards

KOCHI: Tough times are ahead for underperforming engineering students as the APJ Abdul Kalam Kerala Technological University has decided not to let students who fail to secure 35 out of 47 credits after completing second semester to cross over to third semester from coming August. This will be after the students are given the chance to clear their supplementaries after the second semester.

According to the university Pro-Vice-Chancellor Dr M. Abdul Rahiman, this will put an end to the practice of students carrying umpteen supplementaries till last semester and be there on the campus of the colleges. “Students who fail to secure 35 credits will not be allowed to continue on the campus and will have to first clear their supplementaries to continue study in the next semesters. This will enhance the quality in engineering education and let good students study without distraction,” Dr Abdul Rahiman told this newspaper on Monday.

Before the conduct of supplementary exams this time, 27,000 students have earned the credit of 35, out of 40,000 students who appeared for the second semester exam from 150 engineering colleges across the state. The KTU has been able to enforce this after declaring its second semester exam results in record time this month.

While other universities in the state and several others outside the state generally take 4 to 8 months to declare their results, the KTU with just three top officials, including controller of exam, a deputy registrar and an assistant registrar and no contract staff declared the results within 20 days of the conclusion of the exam.

“The supplemetaries have been scheduled from July 1 onwards and it will be over by July 19 and the results will be declared before August 1 so that the third semester classes can be started on August 1. Thus only those who secure 35 credits will be able to attend third semester classes,” Dr Abdul Rahiman said. “We have been able to achieve this feat with the wholehearted support of the teachers and also camp officers. They valued 2.6 lakh answerbooks. We need the support of all to take this forward,” said Dr Abdul Rahiman.