I encountered this about 10 years ago here in the US. The course seemed to have become a kind of Kobayashi Maru - nobody else in my group ever even managed to get a working installation of the compiler, which we had to do in a Windows XP VM (there was some way of getting a license for a copy of XP but almost nobody in the class seemed to get it to work for some reason).

Personally I don't believe in the no-win situation

Is it in India? I was buffled when I found a lot recent Youtube video teaching Turbo C. Then realized all of the were Indian and for Indian students.

Yeah, on one side we are trying to preach modern practices how to program in C++, and then we get these schools teaching pre-standard C++ for a dead OS.