Mahatma Gandhi University is likely to permit the 18 undergraduate students of Maharaja’s College, Ernakulam, who have approached the Kerala High Court stating that they had lost a chance to get enrolled for higher studies owing to the anomalies in the calculation of their cumulative grade point average (CGPA), to get admitted into postgraduate courses.
The court had on Thursday asked the government and the varsity to find out how these students of the 2016-19 undergraduate batch could be admitted to postgraduate courses of their choice and report it before July 15.
In their petition, the aggrieved students had pointed out that they had more marks than the already admitted candidates for postgraduate courses.
They said that the cumulative grade point average norms fixed by the authorities had denied them a chance to apply for higher education programmes as it was lower than the credit point average earned by students in other affiliated colleges of Mahatma Gandhi University.
The students said that the grading pattern based on the choice-based credit system was implemented for the 2016-19 batch in Maharaja’s College. It was implemented a year before the recommendations were adopted in other affiliated colleges of the varsity, they said.
Senior varsity administrators said that a decision in favour of the students could be taken by increasing the seats for postgraduate courses. “We will also seek the directive of the Higher Education Department on how to resolve the issue,” they said.
The college authorities pointed out that they had already conveyed a proposal to the students on how they could be eligible for admission to the postgraduate courses of their choice.
“But it was up to the Higher Education Department and the varsity to give us a directive to admit them,” they said.
