A Study on Student Absenteeism in Colleges with Special Reference to Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh

Abstract

Absenteeism is the most common problem that most of the educational institutes are facing in today's time. Most of the students just take admission for the sake of their degrees and to be tagged as the graduates/post graduates after the completion of the time of their respective degrees. This is certainly a loss for the country because it never fruits out the learned human resource to work for the industry. This exploratory paper tries to find out the factors responsible for the absenteeism in the colleges. It is also an attempt to suggest some of the better ways to encourage the improvement in the strength of the classes so that education can be justified as the learning for life not just mere degree.