A varsity panel has recommended that an online proctored exam be conducted by the departments for the students, but an official announcement is awaited. The decision came after a number of Afghan students requested the varsity to allow for online exams.
Panjab University plans to hold online exams for Afghan students
With an aim to help Afghan students of exit semesters who had earlier missed their ecently-held semester exams as they were not able to get visas to India, Panjab University is mulling to hold the exams for them in online mode. A varsity panel has recommended that an online proctored exam be conducted by the departments for the students, but an official announcement is awaited. The decision came after a number of Afghan students requested the varsity to allow for online exams.
While speaking on the same, a senior official said, "Keeping in view their visa problem we considered the requests of the Afghan students. They all expressed helplessness. The idea is to ask the departments to manage the online proctored examination for these students,” as reported by HT.
“The online examination will be held for exit semester students and a special chance to appear in the exam will be given to the remaining students later,” officials said.
Many students have been waiting for their visa approvals for months now, but with the timeline for the same is still very unclear. They had also raised apprehensions after a circular was issued by the office of PU’s dean international students in May, stating that all students, both Indian and international, are required to appear for the offline examination scheduled from June.
There are nearly 100 Afghan students enrolled in different varsity departments and affiliated colleges. Almost half of them are in their final semester. They have been unable to return to India since the country’s takeover by the Taliban last year.
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