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Sydenham college students while away their time in the college corridoorsSydenham, being a government college, is catering to the demands of the university examinations, which is now placing its students lectures at stake.
And with its annual inter-collegiate festival coming up, the situation only seems to be worsening.
While this may seem as a good excuse to bunk lectures, for the academically inclined, it is nothing but a nightmare.
Govt exam centre
Sydenham College, post-Diwali vacations, has been rendered a government examination centre for conducting examinations of law and management, among other exams.
As the college is trying to accommodate all that it can to make classrooms available for these examinations, some lectures for its students have been cancelled.
Also, activities of the annual inter-collegiate festival have only helped the numbers of attending students dwindle even further. If the number of students in the class is not more than five, the lecturer cancels the lecture. During the inter-collegiate festival, it is always like this, complained a second year commerce student.
Nobody cares
Said a student from the junior college, After Diwali, we have been taught very little of the syllabus. We are told that our classrooms have been allotted for outside exams. Nobody thinks about the fact that our syllabus is being affected, considering that we get little time after January to complete our studying.
Principal issue
Vasudha Deshpande, the college principal, said, These exams are university exams. No government college can refuse to conduct them. The concerned exams were held simultaneously in the law college too. To manage the portion we conducted morning lectures.
Every college gets affected during its festival season, she added.
Some students, however, agree that students are also to blame for the decrease in the frequency of lectures.
Said a third year commerce student, If the student turnout is low, what can the professors do? Students should be held equally responsible for fewer lectures. The professors try to club lectures and sometimes even adjust the timings.
A student, who belonged to a one of the many committees in the college, said, We are prohibited to speak about our college to the media, as it has been in the news for several negative reasons.
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