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For
developing Bihar or any other places, strong and
well organized higher education system is a must
and it's also true that the slope down journey
of education system calls for multifaceted
deteriorations. With poor and sick higher
education system, related state fails to utilize
its own human recourses in full which in turn
strangulates the developmental issues. There are
many problems with the existing higher education
system in Bihar and it can not be solved without
proper planning and serious correcting measures.
Recently one of such corrective measures taken
by Patna University raised a great hue and cry
that ultimately led to intervention by the
Hon'ble Governor and Patna University had to do
corrections in the disputed academic calendar.
Firm implementation of the academic calendar
will correct session delays which is one of the
biggest sickness of almost universities of
Bihar, however, before mitigating the other
linked problems such as admission on time,
completion of teaching on time and change in
evaluation system, true implementations of such
calendars will be difficult and troublesome. The
oppositions by students can not be said totally
baseless and it should not also be taken as
indicative of motto that students do not like to
get in and out of university on the time.
Student might have thought in mind that without
ensuring improvement in all other related
factors such as quality of education,
infrastructure, completion of teaching of
syllabus on time, etc. how university can impose
examination on time?
In the last fortnight much of the opposition
were raised by student for the gap in the
examination of different papers so that they can
get enough time to refresh memory with so called
VVI topics. It is not needed to describe
situation during other examinations such as
intermediate and matriculations. One can see
crowd outside the examination centers to
understand the situation and newspapers are full
of related reporting during examination time.
The existing examination system is closed book
system and to the larger extent it is the
testing of memorizing capacity. It fails to
test, in full, the skill learned and thought
developed in individual while passing through a
course. After the test, the process of
evaluation of the answer books is not also less
dilatory. Late session, late evaluation all lead
to big delay in the career of outgoing students.
The most amazing fact is that demarcation done
by universities are of very limited use. For
example, if a topper of Graduate/Post Graduate
examination goes to bank and asks for a job,
will he/she get it on the basis of previous
demarcation given by university? Answer is not.
The whole thing is that the said demarcation by
one institution, which is indicator of your
vomiting capacity what you ate in last one or
two years, does not suit to other. Most of the
prestigious institutes, job providing
commissions have their own demarcation system.
So what's the use of demarcation given by
university at the cost of time?
If we keep in view testing the skill, thought,
creative power, intuition developed while going
through a course open book examination and
semesterized course structure will be helpful.
Open book system examination is like problem
solving in real life.
In real life if somebody faces problems he/she
looks for available resources and tries to find
optimal solution. Finding an optimal solution
consumes skill, capacity of manipulation,
knowledge consumption, thinking, perception as
well as memory. In many developed countries open
book examination has been adopted. However, in
the open book system of examination the
responsibilities of educators and question
setters are great. Asked questions must be aimed
to test skill and capacity of using knowledge
from book as well as from memory to solve
problems in the given time span. It should never
be a golden opportunity to copy the matter of
books into answer book.
The other important thing is that most of the
courses are not semesterized which restricts
scope of examinations to some very very
important topics and students concentrate only
on them to secure good marks in the
examinations. The semesterization of all courses
at the university is necessary to achieve the
real aims of taught courses. Then it will be
possible to evaluate students by educators, one
who teaches the course, as well as external
evaluators, who examines only answer book and
has never come to know the skill of the
examinee. In the current system of evaluation,
as practiced in almost universities, a course
teacher has no role to play in the evaluation of
student to whom he/she taught! It should be. The
teacher who teaches the course must be asked to
evaluate his/her own students.
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