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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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