Brothers,
According to Times Of India, the University Grants Commission has set up a new committee to examine whether the National Eligibility Test (NET) is actually effective in its role as a gatekeeper for all those who seek to teach in the Indian university system. Actually, the wonder is not so much that the authority of the NET has been supreme ever since it was instituted in the 1980s, but that this has been so despite the many second thoughts that the UGC itself has had about it in the interim.
In 1993, UGC decided to give PhD and MPhil degree-holders exemption from the NET, because these are the highest degrees in academics, and thereby denote lofty standards in and of themselves. In 2002, the blanket exemption was withdrawn. In 2006, a concerned committee recommended scrapping the NET, but all that was once again scrapped was the requirement for PhDs and MPhils to take the NET. In 2009, MPhils lost the exemption. In 2012, qualifying scores were changed across general, SC/ST and OBC categories after the NET results were published!
According to Times Of India, the University Grants Commission has set up a new committee to examine whether the National Eligibility Test (NET) is actually effective in its role as a gatekeeper for all those who seek to teach in the Indian university system. Actually, the wonder is not so much that the authority of the NET has been supreme ever since it was instituted in the 1980s, but that this has been so despite the many second thoughts that the UGC itself has had about it in the interim.
In 1993, UGC decided to give PhD and MPhil degree-holders exemption from the NET, because these are the highest degrees in academics, and thereby denote lofty standards in and of themselves. In 2002, the blanket exemption was withdrawn. In 2006, a concerned committee recommended scrapping the NET, but all that was once again scrapped was the requirement for PhDs and MPhils to take the NET. In 2009, MPhils lost the exemption. In 2012, qualifying scores were changed across general, SC/ST and OBC categories after the NET results were published!
It's education that has been the casualty of UGC's whimsy. It has been pushing for inter-disciplinary courses for students even while promoting a multiple-choice exam for teachers. With critical thinking at one end and rote cramming on the other, UGC has basically set up an unworkable equation. Universities set up as centres of excellence need to be autonomous, and an essential component of that has to be autonomy in selecting their teachers. Using the NET as gatekeeper relies on a centralised, colonial model of university education that is obsolete. So let NET retreat into limbo. And shed no tears for the death of its 'common national yardstick', for higher education is actually about creating excellence, also known as distinction.
As u know that there is a general body meeting of UGC, on 11 th March, 2013, some students are about to protest.
Regards,
Mr. Dilip Malakapurkar
Ambe Jogai
Maharashtra
Scam behind the UGC's Appeal
ReplyDeleteto hckerala
To:
HON'BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE DR.MANJULA CHELLUR
HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE K.VINOD CHANDRAN
Respected Madam/Sir,
In the following matter that will be placed before your honorable Court mostly by 14th of March or later the UGC has constituted NET review committee to circumvent the Court.
It has become customary of UGC to set up such committees to shield itself
from the wrath of the Courts. This committee is just an eyewash to
coverup the blunder of the June 2012 NET examination. The matter is now
with the Division Bench of the Kerala High Court. Now the AG's argument will
be to appeal to your Bench to ensure no interference of the Court with
the functioning of the committee! An eyewash!
http://www.indiaeducationreview.com/news/ugc-constitutes-net-review...
The UGC's NET examination had objectivity in evaluation built in to it even before this June 2012 examination in spite of having the third paper as written paper. The methodology was that UGC will decide the result only based on the performance in First and Second paper as per their norm and the third paper will be evaluated only for those who have cleared the First and Second paper to give an indication to the employers as to how that particular candidate fares in a subjective evaluation. Therefore the UGC's claim that the revised objective pattern as the reason for the anomaly in the result that required their intervention in deciding the Second Cut-Off after the conduct of examination is a cover-up to some scam. Though I am a petitioner against an earlier such Committee by UGC in UGC (The matter is referred as SLP (C) 36023 - 32 of 2010) in Supreme Court, I am without any way and means to convey this to the Bench and hence this e-mail
WA 44/2013 SRI.S.KRISHNAMOORTHY, CGC /
IN WPC 22187/2012 SRI.S.SUBHASH CHAND
& IA 107/2013 LEAVE SRI.NAGARAJ NARAYANAN
& IA 54/2013 IMPLEAD SRI.SAIJO HASSAN
& IA 71/2013 IMPLEAD SRI.PRATHAP PILLAI
................
WITH
WA 173/2013
IN WPC 23746/2012 SRI.S.KRISHNAMOORTHY, CGC /
& IA 88/2013 EXEMPT SRI.R.V.SREEJITH
Prof
Dear Friend,
ReplyDeleteIs there any judgement made by Kerala High court on 14 March hearing.
Thanks