LU proposes to make students fill admission and exam forms together

LU proposes to make students fill admission and exam forms together


LUCKNOW: To ensure that examination process starting from the coming academic session remains fair and transparent, Lucknow University has taken some major decisions. The university will now be asking the students to fill up their examination forms at the time of taking admission itself. It will be applicable to both undergraduate (UG) and postgraduate (PG) students.

The decision can be seen as an attempt to send a message to the affiliated colleges. It could be that LU was spurred into taking the decision after its bad experience in the case of Swatantra Girls Degree College in the ongoing UG annual examinations. The college had tried conducting examinations for commerce when it did not even have affiliation for the said stream.

The decision was taken in a meeting of deans of all faculties, controller of examination, chief provost, director, IPPR and coordinator of UG and PG admissions. The meeting to decide academic calendar of LU was presided over by LU vice-chancellor Prof M K Mishra. "It has been finalised and conveyed to colleges," said Prof S K Dwivedi, director, IPPR, LU.

The move will not only let LU know about number of students taking admission but also if it's the same number from each college which is appearing in examinations. The students who cancel their admission will also get their examination forms cancelled then and there. If the decision gets implemented, LU feels it may prevent rigging of examination process.

"We may make it a single-window kind of process," said Prof Dwivedi. The outstation students taking admission in LU might also be able to get admission in hostels at the time of counselling only. The effort is aimed at making admission process simple for students.

In another major decision, LU has decided to hold online admissions for PG/diploma courses. The manual submission of admission forms will be done away with completely for PG/diploma courses. Besides, LU also finalised the examination dates for UG, PG and diploma courses of various faculties for the present academic calendar.

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