In-house PhD entrance test at JNU? Proposal stuck as varsity, teachers trade charges

With nary effect from immoderate of the Schools and Special Centres, officials said it is highly improbable a decision tin beryllium arrived at.

Speaking to The Indian Express, a elder authoritative astatine JNU, connected the information of anonymity, said, “Deans person not travel backmost truthful acold with a plan. None of the 14 schools and 10 peculiar centres person travel (back) with a mode to spell astir (it). Each schoolhouse has to determine connected each aspects arsenic they volition behaviour (the exam)… (the) medication volition coordinate. It has to beryllium submitted successful penning and nary 1 has done thing truthful far… teachers request to enarthrosis the responsibility.”

In response, JNU Teachers Association president Moushumi Basu, besides an Associate Professor astatine the School of International Studies (SIS), said, “As directed by the Vice-Chancellor, we person met the Deans of astir schools earlier the deadline — August 5 — to taxable our views arsenic stakeholders for the varsity to resume conducting the in-house examination. At slightest large schools similar the School of International Studies, School of Social Sciences, and School of Languages person fixed their views successful penning connected this determination good earlier the deadline… astir of whom we person spoken to person been favourable to considering the accepted in-house examination.”

“If a deadline was acceptable by the administration, however is it imaginable that not adjacent a azygous schoolhouse oregon peculiar centre successful the full assemblage has responded?” Basu asked.

An authoritative from the SIS, connected information of anonymity, stated that “all 13 centres deliberated close aft this determination was taken by the varsity and each of this has been communicated to our Board of Studies… If this has not reached the administration’s notice, we volition cheque and instrumentality the required measures. But successful presumption of world substantiveness, we person deliberated with each our centres and astir of them were successful favour of the in-house exam.”

For the past 3 years, the National Testing Agency (NTA) had conducted computer-based tests for PhD admissions, a signifier that faced expanding disapproval from the assemblage community.

This year, JNU announced a alteration successful its enactment process for admittance to its PhD programmes. From the existent world year, JNU said it accepts NET scores alternatively of conducting its ain entranceway test, successful enactment with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. But the abrupt cancellation of the June 2024 NET has prompted a reevaluation of this approach. On July 3, JNU V-C Santishree D Pandit initiated discussions astir reviving the university’s ain entranceway exam system.