A Strange Dilemma

There has been a lot of discussions at my current workplace aboutt how to make students attend classes more. The requirement of the university is 75% during a semester. On the one hand this does not happen in case of many a students. Yet, it is really hard to stop a student from appearing in the final semester exams because of this. There has even been court cases and the courts seem to say that you cannot really stop the students from appearing from the examinations. The cirteria is that they should pass the final test. If they can do it without attending classes the what's the problem!

I personally also think that we should really not bother about attendance. These are professional courses. If students can clear their examps without attending classes so be it! This should, entirely, be voluntary! If most students pass without attending classes, where we are supposedly teaching the subject to them, then the problem lis elsewhere. The examination standards then become suspect.