TU to conduct suspended exams from 1st week of Sept

KATHMANDU: The Tribhuvan University (TU) is preparing to conduct its stalled examinations from the first week of September.

The TU had suspended its examination programs scheduled from March 20 owing to the global coronavirus crisis and the postponement was extended with the enforcement of nation-wide lockdown against the virus on March 24 which was lifted from the night of July 21.

Students who earlier went home have demanded two weeks to return to Kathmandu for the exams, it is learnt.

According to TU Controller of Examinations, Pushpa Raj Joshi, the semester examinations of Master’s degree and Bachelor’s level will begin from the first week of September and the annual examinations will be conducted in the third week of September.

“Students have to stay in 14-day quarantine after they return to the Kathmandu Valley from outside, and we will start the semester-wise examinations from the programs having the lowest number of students.”

As he said, the TU is working to publish the exam schedule soon. Attention will be given to fix March 20 exam centers at the convenient locations.

Earlier, the Dean Office of Faculty of Management informed that Master’s degree exams would start from the last week of August and the first, third, fifth and seventh semester examinations of Bachelor’s degree from the first week of September.