THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Despite students coming out against government plans to conduct university exams in the traditional manner, various universities in the state have announced revised exam schedules.
Some of them are set to start next week.
The Kerala University has scheduled the fourth semester UG examinations on June 29 and July 1.
Other exams, including PG, BEd and MBA, would also start by the end of this month.
Following online protests by students, Shashi Tharoor, MP had urged governor Arif Mohammed Khan to intervene in his capacity as the chancellor.
The student community, Tharoor said, were going through a period of mental stress and uncertainty.
It would be improper to push them to attend off line exams when they are not fully vaccinated and with no proper public transportation available now.
KSU president K M Abhijit said the government should direct universities to conduct exams online or explore other options to evaluate students.
“Since no serious academic interaction happens in the online teaching mechanism the universities have currently put in place, there is no logic in insisting that the unvaccinated students should troop to colleges and take exams on classes which never happened,” he said.
The exams should be held online or postponed till all students are vaccinated or the Covid situation improves, he said.
Meanwhile, protests still continue against the general education department move to conduct Plus One examination in offline mode in September.
The Supreme Court had, the other day, advised a set of petitioners to take up the matter with the Kerala high court.