Mangaluru: A seven-member committee, three years ago revised the decade old examination manual (1984), but apparently to no avail. It is frozen. Teachers do not yet have access to it. 

The syndicate had approved the draft of the manual revised in August 2012. The 228-page revised manual, including 120 pages of 40 annexures, had 10 chapters. It was also available in the electronic form.

It was to be sent to all the affiliated colleges. But many teachers said that the university had not done it even after three years. It has not even available on its website.

Examinations have undergone several changes and these had to be accommodated in the manual. For instance, credit-based semester scheme for undergraduate courses, choice-based credit system for postgraduate courses, challenge evaluation for postgraduate examinations and the computerization methodology.

Lakshminarayana Bhat, general secretary, Association of Mangalore University College Teachers, said the association urged the university to make the manual accessible to teachers. The manual helped teachers who did not have much experience in the examination process. It mainly helped full-time teachers who have put in two years of experience and evaluated answer scripts for the first time. It was also useful for other teachers who were on other examination duties for the first time.

K. Byrappa, Vice-Chancellor, told an English daily that it would be uploaded to the university website soon. He said that some changes were incorporated to it in the recently held meeting of the Syndicate. “It should have been the duty of the appropriate authority to make it accessible to teachers”, the Vice-Chancellor added.