Final-year exams vital: UGC

NEW DELHI: The July 6 directive asking universities to hold final year and terminal semester exams by September-end is intended to protect the academic future of students that will be irreparably damaged if these tests are not held, the University

Grants Commission (UGC) told the SC on Thursday.

The decision has been taken keeping in mind the students’ health and safety and courts should not normally intervene in academic decisions and policies concerning standards and quality of education, the higher education regulator added.

“All universities/institutions in the country are obliged to conduct terminal semester/ final year examination by the end of September 2020,” UGC said in an affidavit.