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Varsity authorities blamed for bloomers in question paper

By Our Staff Correspondent

MANGALORE, MAY 1. The errors in the question paper on "Indian Constitution, Human Rights, and Environment" set for the first year degree examination of Mangalore University, is the result of the "unilateral" decision of the university authorities without consulting teachers, according to the latter.

Lecturers who spoke to The Hindu said that the bloomers in the question paper indicated the fact that the university had not involved lecturers while setting the paper.

Since the paper is compulsory, students have to clear it to pass the examination. As many questions were tough, several students may fail in the examination, it is feared.

The lecturers wanted to know if the university authorities would accept their fault. If some students failed in the examination, it would be a result of the carelessness of the university authorities in setting the paper, they said.

The lecturers said they had always thought that the question paper would be in the essay pattern. But the fact that it would only have objective-type question was revealed to them only in March 2004, just a month before the examinations, they said. They said they had objected to the introduction of three subjects simultaneously, and brought to the notice of the university the fact that other universities had introduced only two subjects. But the authorities had gone ahead and introduced three subjects, the lecturers said.

A case in point is that of a city-based college where science lecturers teach Indian Constitution. It is said that they consult political science lecturers in other colleges for 15 minutes before taking the classes.

No representation

The lecturers noted that after the Karnataka Universities Act was amended in 2002, lecturers had been kept out of the Senate and the Academic Council while businessmen and others were being nominated. Many such people failed to understand the problems of education, they said and added that only principals were being nominated to the bodies.

The lecturers said that "senior authorities" had started sitting in the classrooms while senior professors and readers taught to assess the quality of their teaching.

This had hurt many qualified teachers.

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