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Ranchi University to probe leak in PhD, MPhil entry tests after plaint | India News – Times of India

RANCHI: An examinee's complaint has prompted Jharkhand's Ranchi University to set up a three-member team to probe allegations of a paper leak linked to the PhD and MPhil entrance exams at the state-run Ranchi Institute of Neuro-Psychiatry & Allied Sciences a week ago, reported. Vice-chancellor Ajit Kumar Sinha said Sunday that the complainant didn't have evidence to substantiate her suspicion of a paper leak, but the authorities decided to institute an inquiry nevertheless."The student claimed the questions 'went viral' on an education portal before the exam, and these could be accessed only by members. Action will be taken based on the probe report." var _mfq = window._mfq || []; _mfq.push(["setVariable", "toi_titan", window.location.href]); !(function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) { f...
Opinion

The rot in India’s higher education system

Image for representation. File | Photo Credit: PTI The academic year of 2022-23 was marked by unprecedented delays in admissions to all university programmes because of the introduction of the National Testing Agency (NTA)-run Common University Entrance Test (CUET) regime for both undergraduate and postgraduate degrees. Initially, a CUET for PhD admissions had also been envisaged by the NTA for 2022-23, but that plan was summarily dropped in mid-September 2022. University administrations that had disregarded the serious internal critique by teachers and students of the blind ceding of this core aspect of university autonomy were left in the lurch.One such university was Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) whose tryst with the NTA is indicative of all that Central universities have suffer...