Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Dec 24: To compensate the unprecedented academic losses caused due to five-month long unrest, the varsities in Kashmir have decided to continue classes in months of winter instead of annual vacations.
Asserting that the decision has been taken in the larger interest of students, Dean Academics, Kashmir University, Prof Muhammad Ashraf told Excelsior that till ending February 2017, the class-work will continue in the Varsity and thereafter examinations would take place.
“We have made this decision in the larger interest of our students and to save their precious academic time. This has also been done in order to bring back the derailed academic session back on wheels,” said the Dean.
He further said that though the varsity has uploaded study material on its website but the face-to-face interaction and practical work for the technical subjects, mathematics and science are important. “We need lab workshops and lab practical for these subjects because they cannot be done without attending classes,” the Dean said.
The Islamic University of Science and Technology (IUST) Awantipora in south Kashmir has also decided not to call off classes in winter period to compensate the academic losses. A spokesman of the IUST told Excelsior that the class-work will continue for six days in every week and there would be no vacation.
“Earlier, we used to have only five working days in a week but now we will have six working days and only one holiday. We have made heating arrangements for the students in the wake of intense cold,” he said.
“The class-work is on and the decision whether to announce winter vacations or not is yet to be made,” said Public Relations Officer (PRO), CUK, Arshad Mehraj Bhat.
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