Do we need hidden cameras in colleges??

I think hidden cameras are needed to colleges in order to know whether the students are paying attention during class and also to know if the teacher is really doing well in his/her job. Hidden cameras may also provide protection and security to all the students within that college.
Hidden camera being mandatory??? It can't be, many colleges would surely oppose to that.

This is a really interesting topic. Hidden cameras would solve different purpose - but not the primary purpose of making students attentive in classes. It'd just pressurize the students and may make them feel that they've taken a wrong decision to chose the college for engineering studies.

I don't think so there is any need of hidden camera in colleges if we are taking from studying perspective to not joining classes or discipline at the engineering level,at the school level we can expect this.

AS the biggie said:it just increase the pressure to the students...
and for the lectures performance ..Director may take feedback from students. 😀

coming to this thread i had a small conversation with my hod sir
he told that if you make noise again and again we have to keep cameras
until that we dont need cams
in my view this is sufficient answer

Never! In college, students are expected to have reached a certain maturity level so that they can take their own decisions. It should be left to them on whether they want to attend lectures, or take notes etc. If the students do not attend college, it is their loss in the long run. If anything is made compulsory, it is human nature to oppose it in some way. Hence, I believe that cameras and stuff should not be installed. It would also incur unnecessary losses in terms of money to the college.

Most of the students used to message their friends and listen songs in the class even though using mobile phone is banned.Few people talk on phone using bluetooth headset when the lectures are taking class.If there is no hidden camera how to avoid such things??How can a lecture keep an eye on all students??

According to me, its really unnecessary to implement hidden cameras in colleges. You are in college just to study? Lol. Enjoy it... Its the most beautiful times in a lifetime. A college is where we begin our life(at least for me). We start living here. Start solving complex problems, starts sharing, helping and enjoying. Even learns how to subside the immense tension during exams, with a simple smile..

A bit of talking in class or messaging in the mobile or even making a call is not going to make you fail in any exam. These are all, kind of, fun. I dont want to sit in the class as if I am in a primary class. Almost all will be 18 at the time of joining college and I think, at this age, all are mature enough to understand what they are doing.

Make as much funny memories as you can. Because, when you get old, the memory of a professor taking a class wont make you laugh or happy but a prank with friends can.

I guss this post misses a touch of proffesionalism 😉 and may be un-acceptable to some. Anyway, I dont want my golden days to be ruined by some spying cameras.

Most of the students used to message their friends and listen songs in the class even though using mobile phone is banned.Few people talk on phone using bluetooth headset when the lectures are taking class.If there is no hidden camera how to avoid such things??How can a lecture keep an eye on all students??

we can avoid by making the class interesting as my faculty does
they make jokes and makes class interesting when we look as bored
why cant do like that
then there is no need of cams or even stress on students and faculty and relationship between faculty and students can be improved

For:I think there is no need to fear a camera as we don't indulge in a bad activity.Any way wherever public properties are at stake like libraries or computer centers in college,cameras are necessary.

Against:Students are after all young people.They are going to do some mischiefs.But they are all the same responsible people.
We should definitely oppose any such move as installing a camera would mean that you don't trust young generation

I don't think that it is a nice idea to install hidden cameras in the classrooms. The students should themselves understand the importance of the lectures. And then what can a student do instead o9f getting bored and slacking off if the teacher himself/herself in not serious with the teaching? A teacher studying the students properly just because he/she is under surveillance is not right.

As said, you cannot win anything by force or pressure. You have to win it by your own rightful means. Same goes here for the students as well as for the teachers.

no, study or not to study depends on us. If ccs r used, its shame on u students.

absolutely not..if the culture of the college is good, no need of cameras. if u fix cameras the college will be like doubting its own potential and culture. students now a days are matured enough.

Hidden cameras should not be used for the reasons the OP described. However, students should be able to carry hidden cameras for security reasons. At my college, a knife was held to my throat for snitching on a thief. That person got away with it because there were no witnesses. Seeing this guy, now and then, in the hall was scary. As long as the student doesn't monitor restrooms, locker rooms, private conversations, and teacher lectures.

Cameras like cctv and all- fine! (they do exist in library to keep an eye if someone is stealing or something) but why "hidden" camera?? I mean, are we running a sting operation here???
And cameras in class rooms won't do any good. They can have it, but students are going to do all those things they want to do! (like mobile texting etc etc).. In India, the culture is good. So "hidden" cameras are not necessary at least in "classrooms" 😛

If these people are ready to put hidden cameras, then they have the power to put it in the private areas too. Seriously, now where is the privacy? It needs to be banned.

As NarayanaMurthy said, it should be in this way. If the classes are interesting, why they would need someone to police the students??? The fault is in the faculty side! 😛

The fault is in the faculty side!

hehehe nice joke buddy but i dont support you because it is wrong
its not faculty fault too its total management fault and education system fault because now education became commercial

narayana murthyhehehe nice joke buddy but i dont support you because it is wrong
its not faculty fault too its total management fault and education system fault because now education became commercial

Awesome man! Agreed... 😀