Ahmedabad: A growing trend shows that students enrolling in professional courses like CA and CS often rely more on private coaching than attending regular college classes. This has led to intense competition among private colleges, especially those offering commerce education, to attract such students. By these competitions, those private colleges have given some incentives to attract students for coaching classes:
- Waiving attendance requirements
- Allowing students to pass simply by submitting assignments
- Forming direct alliances with coaching classes
Some colleges even go as far as paying private institutes for students referrals.
This has weakened academic standards, as students barely attend college or participate in educational activities. Professors and experts raise concerns that:
- Students are attending only demo lectures
- Final exams are passed with little genuine academic input
- The university has no monitoring mechanism to ensure minimum attendance, typically 75-80% is required
Despite mandatory attendance, the lack of enforcement and loopholes has led to a system where students can appear for exams without fulfilling academic requirements.
In these cases, the highlighted part is the degradation of quality in higher education, driven by commercialization and unchecked practices in private commerce colleges aiming to retain or boost their admission numbers.
