Decision on SET taken in haste feels FEDUCTA

Updated on: Monday, June 18, 2012

FEDUCTA (Federation of Central Universities Teachers' Association) is of the opinion that the recent decision of Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD) regarding a single unified test for admission to technical institutions including IITs was taken in haste without taking the Senates of IITs into confidence.President of FEDUCTA, Prof Girish Tripathi, on Friday said that the higher education is a delicate issue of national importance and its policy frame work, its implementation and management needs experience, expertise and careful handling. Quality and excellence are the corner stones on which the entire fabric of higher education depends and to achieve these goals autonomy is of paramount importance. Educationists have always been of the opinion that major policy decisions and fresh initiatives should be taken only after wide ranging deliberations with the faculty.

He further said that the purported objective of this proposed test is to minimize the inconvenience to a very large number of students who are required to appear in a number of entrance tests conducted by different agencies. Secondly it is being argued that by taking into consideration the marks obtained at plus + 2 level the menace of coaching will be curbed to a large extent. It is also being said that the quality of education in schools and colleges will improve.

"FEDUCTA is not fully convinced as to how the proposed test will be able to achieve the self proclaimed goals of MHRD. For ushering an era of quality education the government needs to provide better infrastructure, highly qualified teachers, well equipped library, laboratory etc", said Prof Tripathi. FEDUCTA is also of the opinion that proposed test will have no effect as far as the menace of coaching is concerned. The present model of IIT-JEE tests was designed by the faculties of IITs to test the depth of knowledge, creativity, innovative capacity and overall suitability of the students for thriving and excelling in the atmosphere provided by IITs. The test has proved its worth for the last several decades and it is a widely accepted fact that the IIT graduates have done exceedingly well in top class Universities abroad both in imparting quality education and in doing cutting edge researches, he added.

However, welcoming the decision of the Senates of various IITs not to toe the ill thought and half baked decision of MHRD, FEDUCTA fervently appeals that MHRD should not try to impose its will on IITs and a much better option will be to enter into consultation with the faculty of IITs on this very vital issue, said the president of FEDUCTA. He further said that the federation strongly feels that any unilateral decision in this regard will be conceived as an infringement upon the autonomy of IITs which may ultimately result in creating academic uncertainly, dilution of academic standard and tarnishing the coveted global brand of quality and excellence for which IITs are known worldwide. FEDCUTA will like to caution them to honor the autonomy of the Universities and refrain from interfering in their routine functioning, said Prof Tripathi.

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