To ensure transparency and avoid flaws:
Exam system to be remodelled
The examination system in universities and other higher education
institutions have been remodelled to ensure more transparency and avoid
flaws in the system of correcting answer scripts. Under this system,
students themselves will be given an opportunity to peruse their
corrected answer scripts so that they could satisfy themselves that
there had been no mistakes in the marking system, said Higher Education
Minister S B Dissanayake.
He was addressing a new batch of entrants to the HNDE course at the
Mattakkuliya Higher Technology Education Institute on Tuesday.
Minister Dissanayake said that under the earlier system the answer
scripts were given to the lecturer for marking by the Department
concerned and the lecturer after marking the papers returned them to the
Department.
If there had been any inadvertence on the part of the lecturer, the
students did not have an opportunity to get it corrected.
The Minister said that students entering the Higher Technology
Education Institutes were only able to obtain a Diploma in Engineering
today. He hoped to raise the HNDE course to degree status by linking the
Higher Technology Institutes with an Engineering Institute abroad.
The Minister said his Ministry also hoped to streamline the
administration and student activities of Universities and Higher
Technology Institutes by utilising new technology. Under this system, it
would be possible to scan the identity cards of students entering
Universities and Higher Technology Institutes and inform them about the
day's timetable through an SMS message.
Arrangements would also be made to put an end to the system of
ragging in Universities and Higher Education Institutes soon.
Ministry Secretary Dr Sunil Jayantha Navaratne, Director General
(Student Affairs) Keerthi Mawellage, Director General Sri Lanka
Institute of Higher Technological Education, Prof Kapila Perera and
Director Mattakkuliya Higher Technology Institute Janaki Gunaratne were
also present on the occasion.
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