THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The state government has decided to roll back its earlier move to introduce an online mechanism to conduct state entrance examination for engineering, pharmacy and architecture courses next year.
A meeting convened by higher education minister K T Jaeel here on Friday decided not to introduce online examination for next year at least. The minister, said sources, opined at the meeting that converting the legacy system into an online one can be done only after detailed studies. “There are chances that new mechanism may trigger controversies. The government, already on the back foot for a number of political reasons, is not willing to embrace an unnecessary risk in the name of another reform. The findings that the efficiency should be enhance before conducting online test in a phased manner is more political than technical ones,” sources close to the developments said.
Absence of a big and robust computer network facility for conducting the online entrance examination is cited as the major reason that prompted the government to go back from its earlier announcement that efforts would be made to introduce online exam by 2020.
A meeting convened by higher education minister K T Jaeel here on Friday decided not to introduce online examination for next year at least. The minister, said sources, opined at the meeting that converting the legacy system into an online one can be done only after detailed studies. “There are chances that new mechanism may trigger controversies. The government, already on the back foot for a number of political reasons, is not willing to embrace an unnecessary risk in the name of another reform. The findings that the efficiency should be enhance before conducting online test in a phased manner is more political than technical ones,” sources close to the developments said.
Absence of a big and robust computer network facility for conducting the online entrance examination is cited as the major reason that prompted the government to go back from its earlier announcement that efforts would be made to introduce online exam by 2020.
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