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Suggestions made by students are also taken into consideration to promote participation in ECA to
ensure quality in university education.

Table 2: Information on the importance of extracurricular activities, difficulties faced

and suggestions to improve provided by students

Question Student responses
Importance of ● Improve knowledge, abilities and attitudes, confidence in achieving targets,

ECA decision making, leadership qualities, communication, organizing skills,
self-behavior, time management, teamwork, physical and mental wellbeing,

sharing and caring
● Learn to work under pressure, face challenges and find solutions to
practical problems

● Building extra qualifications need for the career
● Help to identify themselves and to understand their potential

● Help to become versatile in many fields / collect various life experiences
● Expand networking with people (people from other batches, faculties,
universities, local/foreign professionals), improve social life and unity

● Understand the responsibility as a citizen and to make a good impact on the
society

● Get chances to uplift the University
● Get chances to obtain University-level certificates
Difficulties ● Degree requirement of 80% attendance for academic activities and

faced attendance related issues arise when participating for practices
● No coaches for sport practices and need to travel a long distance to attend

sport practices, inability to stay at university in the evening/ weekends,
safely issues in travelling back to residence at night after practices
● Heaviness of academic work/ difficulty in balancing ECA with academic

work/ time management issues
● COVID19 pandemic

● Do not like online activities/ heavy data charges/ connectivity related
issues/ shifting activities to online mode
● No activity/society in university which matches the preference

● New to the university environment and studying pattern, do not know about
available ECA/ do not know how to join
● Tried joining but no official responded/ lack of communication

● Fear to get responsibilities/ scared to join due to less experience working in
teams and less English proficiency

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