Student absenteeism is no longer limited to low-quality higher education institutions (HEIs). It has spread across all universities and colleges, including the most prestigious.
Furqan Qamar
Escaping lectures has become the norm rather than the exception in higher education. Most students now prefer to skip classes at the slightest pretext. Even strict measures–such as disallowing students from appearing in exams if they fail to meet the minimum attendance requirement–seem to have little effect.
Student absenteeism is no longer limited to low-quality higher education institutions (HEIs). It has spread across all universities and colleges, including the most prestigious. At one of the Institutions of Eminence (IoE), students even appreciated their university for not enforcing attendance, calling it one of its “best practices”. This is not a problem unique to India. Student absenteeism is a global phenomenon, varying only in degree. Even the world’s best universities have not remained untouched. If they were, Tom Clay and Lori Breslow of MIT Cambridge would not have felt the need to survey their undergraduate students in 2006 or write a blog post about their findings.
Policy planners and administration tend to blame teachers. They accuse faculty of being lackadaisical, uninspiring, or insufficiently skilled to attract students to lectures and keep them engaged….
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