PU to start internal and open exam system but mindset does not change

Finally, I see something which has seemed obvious to me for years:

“Since the internal and open system that was recently introduced only in Science honours schools was appreciated by students as well as faculty members and there was a smooth conduct of examinations by these honours schools, it was decided to implement this system in all the departments,” said Controller of Examinations Prof A K Bhandari.

What troubles me is that the objective appears to be 

The process would leave no scope for students to seek re-evaluation.

In case there are affiliated colleges, I am not sure how they will expand the system and that worries me. The system can fail if multiple independent colleges are involved. Teachers at each college can be under pressure to give better grades to their students because the 'other colleges do it'.

The solution in my view is simple. The degree should explicitly mention the college and not just the university. The results could include percentile ranking within the college rather than any efforts at normalisation of results across colleges.

Even then the following would clearly be a potential problem:

In case there is more than one person who teaches the same course, the Board of Control would designate the teachers as Instructor-in-Charge on rotation basis.

“One of the teachers would set the question paper in consultation with other teachers of the course as well as jointly invigilate and evaluate the answer scripts. The Board of Control would be required to send the list of examiners to the Controller of Examinations’ office by the end of October,” added Prof Bhandari.

I see no reason why each course should not be treated as an independent activity. Each teacher should be free to adjust the relative importance of various topics to be covered in the syllabus.

In spite of seeming progress, it depresses me that the mindset remains suspicious of teachers.

Not denying the possibility of favouritism by teachers while evaluating their students, Prof Bhandari said that it would entirely depend on their integrity.

I find it weird that we are willing to trust a person to teach us (or help us learn) but not to evaluate our performance.

I suppose real progress can only happen once it is accepted that learning/teaching is the goal of a university and not examinations. Or is that too idealistic a goal.