IIT-Kharagpur closes semester sans exam
The Times of India (May 29, 2020)
KOLKATA: Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, following in the footsteps of IIT Bombay and some other IITs, has closed the current semester without conducting the end-semester examination.
A committee has been formed, the members of which sit with the deans of undergraduate and postgraduate studies as well as research programmes and decide on a new grading scheme, on how to take supplementary examinations and how to assign students to new departments they seek a change to. "We are yet to decide when the spring semester would begin but it will be done soon," an official said. "It is not possible for the final-semester students, who have already bagged jobs, to remain in the dark without any clarity of terminal semester examinations. They have to join their jobs at specified locations. Hence, we could not further delay the holding of exams any more." (Read More)