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English vs Hindi? 4-year degree? Higher education mired in the wrong debates

The fights over the language in which to take CSAT exams or whether there should be 3-year courses of 4-year ones misses the real problems that beset higher education in India.

UPSC row: AAP, RJD leaders join protests against CSAT exam

"The movement is not only about Hindi but all the languages in our country. It is a big question mark on the structure of higher education in the country. The movement is only demanding equality of opportunity for all the languages," Yogendra Yadav said.

UPSC row: Are the exams even equipped to choose the perfect bureaucrat?

For the moment, forget the quantitative and analytical components of the Civil Service Aptitude Test (CSAT), ignore the raging controversy over whether or not its papers are biased in favour of students who have passed out from English-medium schools in cities.

UPSC row: Will Hindi-heartland politics now let students set question papers?

Without entering into a serious dialogue with other stakeholders such as political parties from non-Hindi states, when the government said the marks for English will not be graded, what it has done was effectively diluting the autonomy of a constitutional institution such as the UPSC.

UPSC row: No inaccurate translation in civil services exam, says govt

Government on Wednesday said there is no inaccuracy in translation of questions from English to Hindi in the civil services examination.

UPSC row: Will the civil services be a victim of divide and rule politics?

The debate became even more messier on Tuesday as it now threatened to tread not only on the linguistic divide but also on the divisions based on science and humanities and urban and rural background.

UPSC row: Parliamentary proceedings disrupted, stir continues

The Opposition made a strong pitch for setting up of a Joint Parliamentary Committee to probe the matter, saying it involved the career of lakhs of students.

UPSC row: Is BJP wasting opportunity to shed image as a Hindi heartland party?

The issue here is not about what language a neta gives speeches in. This is not even about the arrogance of the English mediumwalla over the Hindi Medium Types.

UPSC row: Is the BJP student wing batting for coaching classes?

The students' unions protesting the CSAT for UPSC aspirants are insisting that the format be rolled back completely. CSAT was introduced to counter the coaching classes' approach to cracking the exams.

UPSC row: Modi govt should worry about careers, not only BJP votes

The decision to not count the English comprehension marks in the Civil Services Aptitude Test now threatens to open up a Pandora's box on the issue of language.