Engineering students protest against Anna University’s regulation

January 18, 2019 01:40 pm | Updated 04:15 pm IST - CHENNAI

Students of Anna University protest against against the recent rules that allows them to reappear for failed exam only after a year.

Students of Anna University protest against against the recent rules that allows them to reappear for failed exam only after a year.

Students of engineering colleges affiliated to Anna University have launched a State-wide protest against a regulation issued in 2017.

The university implemented the choice-based credit system (CBCS), under which the students who fail in a paper in a semester can reappear only in the next year along with their juniors in that semester. Earlier, students used to take their ‘arrear’ paper in the next semester itself.

The CBCS provides the students the advantage of not only improving their class assessment marks but also sit in the class and learn the subject better. The students are protesting against this rule.

Anna University Registrar J. Kumar, who met the students and later the reporters, said the university had received the students' written demands. However, any changes in the regulations can be made only after a committee studies the demands.

Mr. Kumar urged the students to approach their college principals and seek details of the regulation. He also said the decision with regard to changes, if any, would be made within 10 days.

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