JNU lecturers increase concern over CUET’s impact on college’s autonomy, college students’ future
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NEW DELHI: Several lecturers on the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) raised issues over the just lately held Common University Entrance Test (CUET), calling it “chaotic, and irresponsible” which entails the erosion of varsity’s autonomy.
In a press convention, JNU lecturers affiliation (JNUTA) representatives alleged that CUET based mostly system is creating insurmountable losses within the subject of instructing and studying for present and future generations, apart from inflicting irreparable hurt to democratic and participative governance within the college.
The JNUTA lecturers spoke in regards to the extraordinarily antagonistic impression of the CUET-based system of admissions on JNU’s academic programmes.
“The existence of the CUET has ensured that no decision about admissions can be taken within the university anymore, thus effectively undoing of Parliament,” JNUTA mentioned. The lecturers additionally mentioned the check additionally “eviscerate the university acts”.
“With unsynchronised semesters, students in two intersecting semesters cannot opt for the entire range of courses being offered in the university at the time! For programmes whose curriculum or syllabi crucially relies on the cross-listing of courses, this has proved disastrous,” the JNUTA added.
Speaking at press convention, Professor Ayesha Kidwai mentioned JNU is a college that caters to poor college students — about half of our college students are from rural India, hailing from households with incomes lower than Rs 12,000 a month, and are ladies.
“The delay in admissions in universities participating in the CUET has effectively caused a break in these students’ education. For those students amongst these who would be relying on university fellowships to sustain themselves and their families, the lack of admissions may, in all likelihood, push them out of the education system altogether. With one stroke, the youth dividend, we often take pride in, goes to waste,” Kidwai mentioned.
“The primary reason why JNU finds itself in such a disastrous situation is the complete collapse of JNU’s statutory bodies, mainly due to the previous administration,” she added.
NEW DELHI: Several lecturers on the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) raised issues over the just lately held Common University Entrance Test (CUET), calling it “chaotic, and irresponsible” which entails the erosion of varsity’s autonomy.
In a press convention, JNU lecturers affiliation (JNUTA) representatives alleged that CUET based mostly system is creating insurmountable losses within the subject of instructing and studying for present and future generations, apart from inflicting irreparable hurt to democratic and participative governance within the college.
The JNUTA lecturers spoke in regards to the extraordinarily antagonistic impression of the CUET-based system of admissions on JNU’s academic programmes.
“The existence of the CUET has ensured that no decision about admissions can be taken within the university anymore, thus effectively undoing of Parliament,” JNUTA mentioned. The lecturers additionally mentioned the check additionally “eviscerate the university acts”.
“With unsynchronised semesters, students in two intersecting semesters cannot opt for the entire range of courses being offered in the university at the time! For programmes whose curriculum or syllabi crucially relies on the cross-listing of courses, this has proved disastrous,” the JNUTA added.
Speaking at press convention, Professor Ayesha Kidwai mentioned JNU is a college that caters to poor college students — about half of our college students are from rural India, hailing from households with incomes lower than Rs 12,000 a month, and are ladies.
“The delay in admissions in universities participating in the CUET has effectively caused a break in these students’ education. For those students amongst these who would be relying on university fellowships to sustain themselves and their families, the lack of admissions may, in all likelihood, push them out of the education system altogether. With one stroke, the youth dividend, we often take pride in, goes to waste,” Kidwai mentioned.
“The primary reason why JNU finds itself in such a disastrous situation is the complete collapse of JNU’s statutory bodies, mainly due to the previous administration,” she added.
