First-year college students told to return once timetables are fixed

Many colleges don’t yet have syllabus aligned with National Education Policy; lecturer says meeting scheduled today to apprise them of syllabus

Classes for first-year undergraduate students studying in colleges affiliated to Bengaluru Central University (BCU) were to begin on Tuesday, but they did not. Lecturers in many colleges are yet to receive copies of the syllabus and chalk out the timetable for the first-years.

A majority of the colleges conducted orientation programmes for the first-year students on Tuesday and asked them to return to college once the timetables were finalised. Classes for second- and third-year students, which reopened after a break, took place as scheduled. “We are yet to receive the syllabus, which needs to be aligned with the National Education Policy (NEP). Once we get it, we will be able to give students the choice for their open electives,” a city-based government college principal said.