Mumbai University Semester to be Delayed by a Week
- The new academic session of Mumbai University will start from 18th June and continue until 5 November.
- The university postponed the summer semester exams to June which caused the delay in the commencement of the new semester.
The academic council of theUniversity of Mumbai (MU)has passed a resolution that the next semester of the university will start from 18 June 2018, which is almost a week later than the usual schedule.
Few of thesummer semester examswere rescheduled in June and the university had to release the result for250 courseswhich led to the delay in next year’s academic calendar.
Mohammed Tahir, Professor from Akbar Peerbhoy College of Commerce and Economicsaffiliated to Mumbai Universityannounced that the next academic term of the university will start from 18th June and continue till 5 November. Thenew academic session of MUusually starts by 12 June but the delay in the evaluation of answer sheets was eating into the vacation of the teachers.
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MU teachers are entitled to a five-weekvacation, but due to the delay in exams, they were not getting the same. He also said that theadmission processwill start right after the assessment which will not provide the teachers with any break. Therefore, they decided to speak to the academic council and it was decided that the new session will start a week late. Other teachers of the university are of the view that a week’s delay in the session will lead to a lot of chaos in the coming time.
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