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UGC scuttles NET
The University Grants Commission (UGC) decided to scrap the National Eligibility Test (NET) exam scheduled for July 2017 which will now happen on November 19. This also means that the NET exam in December won\'t be happening this time.
New Delhi: The University Grants Commission (UGC) decided to scrap the National Eligibility Test (NET) exam scheduled for July 2017 which will now happen on November 19. This also means that the NET exam in December won't be happening this time.
The UGC is thus curtailing the bi annual NET examination and making it a yearly event. The number of students qualifying NET exam every year will effectively reduce to half if it is held yearly.
Besides, the UGC is lowering the total percentage of students who qualify for NET from 15% under each category to 6% of overall students appearing for NET exam.
Although the UGC claims that the reservation criteria will be implemented within this 6% of students who qualify but that will also result in a sharp decrease in the total number of students who qualify NET.
This effectively means that the total number of students qualifying NET exam every year will come down to 3% as compared to the current bi-annual mode.
Qualifying in the UGC NET examination is mandatory for selection to teaching posts in the universities and colleges. The UGC NET qualification is also a parametre for selecting students into PhD programme in various disciplines. There are thousands of teaching posts vacant in higher educational institutions of the country.
The drastic reduction in number of students qualifying NET will have an adverse impact on employment opportunities of thousands of students who aspire for these teaching posts.
A fraction of the students who qualify NET exam are eligible for Junior Research Fellowship. The lowering of total number of those qualifying NET will directly impact the number of students being awarded JRF.
However, the UGC sources state that NET is to be conducted not more than once a year keeping in mind the fact that only 17% of registered candidates appear for the exam of whom only 4% clear the paper.
Speaking to The Hans India, Prof. S Ramachandram, Vice-Chancellor, Osmania University, said that it is advisable to conduct the NET twice as it would provide more options to students as the NET has now wide applicability.
