Jadavpur University
For PhD admissions, the department issued an order on Aug 5 and asked universities to use scores from UGC-NET, UGC-CSIR NET, GATE and similar national-level tests, followed by an interview. Because its provision was included in UGC regulations, a professor in the arts faculty at JU said, “Until the Aug 5 order, different departments held RET.
It also “requested” universities not to conduct PhD Admission Test (PAT) or RETs. Kolkata: The state higher education department has asked Jadavpur University to submit last five years’ records of students being admitted and registered into PhD programmes in five arts departments of English, Bengali, international relations, comparative literature and education. We are collating the data and will send it at the earliest. The university is yet to submit that record. There are also disciplines, like film studies and nanoscience, where UGC doesn’t hold NET. So, RET is conducted there.”
Acting registrar Debajit Dutta said, “We received the letter from the higher education department on Tuesday.