‘Delay in completion of CUET has disrupted the academic calendar of all participating Central Universities’
‘Delay in completion of CUET has disrupted the academic calendar of all participating Central Universities’
The Jawaharlal Nehru University Teachers’ Association (JNUTA) on Monday demanded that the university should withdraw from the National Testing Agency’s (NTA) Common University Entrance Test (CUET) for all courses as no university programs have been admitted this year. . So far. The teachers at a press conference in the capital highlighted the wastage of teaching hours due to the delay in conducting CUET.
“The most immediate reason for this massive wastage of educational resources is the ‘One Nation, One Exam’ policy embodied by CUET. The delay in the completion of CUET has disrupted the academic calendar of all the participating Central Universities and till now many of them No one has been able to start admission in their undergraduate and postgraduate programmes,” JNUTA said.
It states that the idea of a “one-size-fits-all” entrance test entails erosion of the university’s autonomy and the abolition of the University Acts under which public institutions such as JNU were established, and is the only way forward “Exit CUET”.
The teachers’ body said it is unlikely that JNU will admit PhD students this year as the NTA has reneged on its undertaking of 20 central universities, including JNU, that it would conduct PhD-CUET, and asked universities to make it. asked for. their own arrangement.
“JNU has not initiated any necessary statutory process to discuss and determine the modalities for securing their PhD admissions. There is every possibility that none of the 83 PhD programs of JNU will have students this year. All the 11 schools/special centres, which have only PhD programme, will not get to teach this year at all,” JNUTA said.