The Hindu

Mangalore, Dec 24: Students and teachers have criticised the recent proposal of the Government to hold common entrance test (CET) for postgraduate courses in scheduled universities.

The National Student Union of India (NSUI) and the Federation of University College Teachers' Association of Karnataka (FUCTAK) have termed it "a bundle of misplaced priorities".

The university system was autonomous in the country. Each university was empowered to have its own admission pattern depending on the demand for certain courses at the postgraduate level, A M Narahari, president of FUCTAK, has said.

Prof Narahari told The Hindu that the proposal to have CET for postgraduate courses would result in unnecessary rating of the universities by certain agencies.

He said that the universities could reserve seats for students from other States. If CET were to be implemented, 50 per cent of the seats would be reserved for students from other states, Prof Narahari said. Instead, the universities could reserve higher percentage of seats for such students.

President of the district unit of the NSUI Tejaswiraj said the shortcomings in the university system had to be rectified first.