
Teachers’ bodies want universities to have autonomy to decide on holding entrance exams
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Several teachers’ bodies in West Bengal want universities to be given autonomy to decide on holding entrance exams for admissions.
Universities in West Bengal should be given the autonomy to decide on the issue of holding entrance tests at the undergraduate and post-graduate levels, several associations of state-run university teachers of West Bengal said on Monday. Referring to reports in a section of the media that the West Bengal government has asked Vice-Chancellors of state universities not to conduct entrance tests at the UG level due to the pandemic situation, the associations said that the governments of the state or at the Centre should not meddle in the functioning of the institutes.
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