The Vice-Chancellor of Vignan University, Guntur, Prof P. Nagabhushan on Thursday, July 27, advocated the need for according autonomy to teachers in designing the curriculum and conducting assessment of their students. The focus has to be on the assessment of students in a scientific manner, as suggested in the National Education Policy-2020, instead of laying emphasis on examination for the students’ assessment, he opined.
Delivering his lecture at the Foundation Day of University of Mysore (UoM) at the Crawford Hall here, Prof. Nagabhushan, a former Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the UoM, suggested that the ultimate aim has to be on establishing a more liberal education system and cited the example of “Chakde India” film where the players get complete freedom and the rest becomes a history. To create history, autonomy of the education system and teachers are mandatory. Every educator must be given a freehand to assess their students in their own methods instead of examinations being the sole criteria, he argued.
Prof. Nagabhushan also cited the example where the Department of Computer Science at the UoM, when he was the chairman in 2000, disbanded the board of examinations (BoE). “We convinced the then VC on our stand.”
