Kerala Higher Secondary examination guidelines not relevant for unaided Gulf area colleges?

Express News Service

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The guidelines for the conduct of upper secondary examination in colleges within the state are usually not being adopted in unaided colleges within the Gulf area that comply with the state syllabus, the response to a Right To Information (RTI) question has revealed.

According to the revised greater secondary examination handbook, solely senior lecturers of presidency colleges shall be appointed as chief superintendents in unaided colleges within the state. However, within the eight unaided colleges within the Gulf area, the principals of those establishments act because the senior-most official accountable for examinations within the college, says the RTI response from the General Education Department.

The examination handbook lays down that it’s the chief superintendent who supervises and controls the deputy chief superintendents, invigilators and
exterior examiners. Even although senior lecturers from authorities and aided colleges within the state are deployed as deputy chief superintendents in
colleges within the Gulf area, the upper secondary handbook is silent in regards to the standards for his or her choice.

The response to the RTI software, filed by S Manoj of Aided Higher Secondary School Teachers’ Association, additionally revealed that for sensible exams, lecturers from one college within the Gulf area are assigned en-masse as exterior examiners to a different college and vice-versa. This has raised questions in regards to the equity of the train. 

It needs to be famous that whereas conducting the sensible examination in unaided colleges within the state, solely authorities college lecturers are chosen for the duty and assigned on a random foundation to those colleges to make sure equity.

In one other startling revelation, the RTI response mentioned the upper secondary directorate doesn’t have the title and particulars of the lecturers who’re deployed as invigilators for the exams in colleges within the Gulf area.

‘Adequate measures adopted’
Meanwhile, SS Vivekanandan, Secretary, Board of Higher Secondary Examinations, maintained that enough checks and balances are in place to make sure that no malpractices are carried out within the examinaitons held in colleges within the Gulf area.

“In such schools, the question papers are kept in the Embassy concerned, brought to the school on the day of the exam and opened in the presence of the deputy chief superintendent who is a senior government or aided school teacher deployed from the state,” he mentioned. He added that no complaints of any malpractices have but been reported from any of those establishments.