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Put Brakes for Communications on the campus: SIMC
By Neesha | Tuesday, 19 July, 2011 | 1 Comments
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Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communications (SIMC) has actually applied brakes on communications in the campus area. The management has decided that there will be no Internet access between 2.00-5.00 am and 8.00am-5.00 pm in the hostel and no checking social networking sites before 8.00pm. Students got shocked with this unexpected move by the management.
According to officials at SIMC, the main reason behind this action is to make sure that students focus more on academic work and for the school to save on bandwidth from not having and serious value entertainment downloads. Apparently, because of heavy traffic at night, the management used to receive complaints from staff and students about difficulty in downloading course work. Officials also added that SIMC has decreased its intake from 240 to 120 but they have not increased its fee structure where this has decreased the instituteâs revenues and saving of bandwidth is a way to keep the balance.
SIMC director Chandan Chatterjee admitted that Internet has been blocked for some hours in his schools and it is done keeping the students in mind. There had been cases where students used to come into the classroom tired and exhausted after keeping up all night. This is one way that to make sure that they get a good nightâs sleep.
A student from IIT Delhi, said that there was no restriction of internet usage at night. They have limited downloading option till 500 MB/week and 2GB/month which is enough for the students. Management was going to limit Internet access during night hours but it has not been done yet. The students use the Internet especially for academics and limiting Internet access during night hours will affect academic performance.
The director said he cannot do anything if students prefer phones for downloading in the campus. The students cannot be stopped from using the net on their phones. This has been done just to make the students perform well in academics and make the most of the money that their parents have invested in their B-school education.
According to officials at SIMC, the main reason behind this action is to make sure that students focus more on academic work and for the school to save on bandwidth from not having and serious value entertainment downloads. Apparently, because of heavy traffic at night, the management used to receive complaints from staff and students about difficulty in downloading course work. Officials also added that SIMC has decreased its intake from 240 to 120 but they have not increased its fee structure where this has decreased the instituteâs revenues and saving of bandwidth is a way to keep the balance.
SIMC director Chandan Chatterjee admitted that Internet has been blocked for some hours in his schools and it is done keeping the students in mind. There had been cases where students used to come into the classroom tired and exhausted after keeping up all night. This is one way that to make sure that they get a good nightâs sleep.
A student from IIT Delhi, said that there was no restriction of internet usage at night. They have limited downloading option till 500 MB/week and 2GB/month which is enough for the students. Management was going to limit Internet access during night hours but it has not been done yet. The students use the Internet especially for academics and limiting Internet access during night hours will affect academic performance.
The director said he cannot do anything if students prefer phones for downloading in the campus. The students cannot be stopped from using the net on their phones. This has been done just to make the students perform well in academics and make the most of the money that their parents have invested in their B-school education.
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