
Academic calendar already disrupted, say colleges
The Hindu
Schools to offer online classes for 9, 10
The three-day holiday declared by the State Government in light of the ongoing row over students sporting hijabs and saffron shawls in many parts of Karnataka is going to have an impact on the already delayed academic calendar, say lecturers.
On Tuesday, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai announced the three-day holiday for high schools and colleges.
B.G. Bhaskar, president of Federation of University and College Teachers’ Associations in Karnataka, told The Hindu that the academic calendar started late and almost an entire semester has been lost. “We had to revert to online classes from January 8 to 31, following the outbreak of the third wave. Just a week after the offline classes resumed, this has happened,” he said.