The academic Hall of Shame just keeps getting bigger - Bihar topper, Ruby Rai, spelt political science as prodikal science and said it was about cooking. A Class X student in Gujarat, who scored 90% in Mathematics, felt a triangle had four sides. And newest inductees to join the brigade are two professors in Uttar Pradesh.
According to reports, two professors have been blacklisted by the Uttar Pradesh government - an associate professor of English who wrongly spelled "evaluation" and an Economics professor who said IMF stands for "International Money Fund" and has no idea what audit means.
The matter came to light during evaluation of answer sheets of BA English, History and Economics at the Institute of Tourism and Hotel Management(ITHM) when evaluation co-ordinator & director Luvkush Mishra speculated the credentials of the two professors and decided to put them through the wringer, Times of India reported. Mishra said that English teacher Shyam Bahadur struggled with grammar while writing a two-line application letter seeking permission for evaluating papers and spelled evaluation as "evalluation", ironic for a professor who has been teaching the subject his whole life. The Economics professor, Veer Bahadur SIngh, did not know IMF stands for "International Monetary Fund" and was also unaware of what audit meant.
Interestingly, both of them have valid degrees and have been teaching and evaluating papers in UP university for more than a decade. Shyam Bahadur works as associate professor in English at Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University, Bareilly, while Anil Kumar Pal, associate professor in Economics, is teaching at Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University, Jaunpur.
Both the teachers have been blacklisted and a suitable action will be taken against them, said UP governor and chancellor, Ram Naik.
The sad state of academic affairs desperately calls for a revamp of the Indian education system. For more details, read: https://mouthshut.com/review/General-Advice-on-Education-review-mmorqsrrlmm
