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Teachers of Jadavpur University have written to education minister Bratya Basu that his department’s instruction that undergraduate students be admitted solely on the basis of marks “goes directly against the autonomy of universities”.
The teachers said in an email to the minister on Tuesday that in a year when plus-II students could not write their school-leaving exams because of the Covid pandemic, assessment through an admission test “is vital for determining whether or not a candidate ought to take up a particular field of study at the higher levels”.
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The education department had on July 14 told colleges and universities that they were to draw up the merit list of undergraduate aspirants solely on the basis of plus-II marks.
JU teachers assert right to return home Teachers and officials were gheraoed by the engineering faculty students’ union over alleged lapses in the online Jadavpur University Management System
Teachers at Jadavpur University have said that “just as students have the right to agitate for their demands, teachers too have the right to return home after meetings”. Detaining teachers and officials for hours “in this pandemic situation”, they have warned, “can have severe, if not fatal, consequences”.
The Jadavpur University Teachers’ Association (Juta) has flagged the points in a letter to vice-chancellor Suranjan Das, days after teachers and officials were gheraoed by the students’ union of the engineering faculty over alleged lapses in the online Jadavpur University Management System (JUMS). That siege continued from around 4pm till midnight.