With the latest educational scandal of the UGC NET exam being cancelled because the National Testing Agency admitted to gross violations of confidentiality, we see everything come to pass, that teachers all over the country foretold regarding the drastic changes made in the education system over the past ten years. Reasonably robust public universities have been brought to their knees – drastic fund cuts to libraries and student scholarships, corresponding rise in funds to security agencies, university admissions delayed by months in some years, anomalies in admissions that are impossible to confirm because full admission lists with breakups are no longer made available to faculty or students.
The system has become utterly opaque. And all this is excluding the academic changes that are still being brought about in an endless stream by the head of the UGC – a range of fantastical policies such as twice a year admissions, PhD admission immediately after a BA in subjects the students may not have studied, along with the ending of the MPhil degree. It’s like Mamidala Jagadhesh Kumar, who began the process of destroying JNU as its Vice Chancellor (a task ably taken up now by the current Vice Chancellor) asks himself every morning – what can I do today that’s fun, will create utter confusion and block the process of critical thinking and serious scholarship some more?
Teachers watch enraged, as our committed and hardworking students face hurdle after hurdle in their goal of pursuing knowledge and dignified livelihoods. As they protested this latest blow to their educational hopes outside the office of the Minister for Education they were manhandled by the police, picked up and detained….
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Modi Fear & Parliament : राहुल की धमकी..मोदी को बुलानी पडी पैनिक मीटिंग !
Modi 3.0 Crises : स्कैम पर स्कैम खुलने लगे तो..ज़्यादा दिन नहीं चलेगी सरकार !
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