‘Rewarding can motivate students’
He pointed out that back in 2017, they introduced a special attendance scholarship, which yielded positive results. Manas Kabi, principal of Asutosh College, said they followed the university’s guidelines and made 75% attendance mandatory to allow students to appear for exams. Even after marks were abolished in 2023, we maintained the 75% attendance cap.
Because marks will be set aside for it but we must accept the reality., “It’s unfortunate that students will attend lectures only.
If this move can bring them back to classrooms, it is definitely a welcome decision,” said Indrila Guha, principal of Basanti Devi College. Echoing her, Bankim Sardar College principal Tilak Chatterjee said, “As soon as attendance becomes rewarding, class attendance will improve. We welcome the reintroduction of marks as a reward can motivate even the most reluctant students to return to the classroom,” he said.
Kolkata: Principals and faculty members of affiliated colleges welcomed Calcutta University’s decision to reintroduce marks for attendance in undergraduate classes, aimed at bringing truant students back to classrooms. But attendance dropped as soon as it was discontinued, he added. “We constantly remind our students about the rule.
Several principals pointed out that before the curriculum and credit framework (CCF) was implemented, 10 marks used to be set aside for attendance but the abolition of the marks severely affected the classroom teaching-learning environment as attendance dropped.