State Universities to Send Question Papers Through Email to Avoid Leaks

To streamline education, secy directs registrars to appoint HoDs on rotation basis for 3 years

- BINITA JAISWAL @ Chennai

TO avoid any incident of question paper leak, the higher education department has instructed the registrars of state universities to computerise the process of distributing the question papers to examination centres through email just before the start of the exam.

The initiative has been successfully pilot-tested by the Tamil Nadu Teachers Education University (TNTEU), which was marred by a question paper leak incident last year.

After its successful implementation in TNTEU, secretary of higher education department C Samayamoorthy, in a recent meeting with the registrars, directed them to pilot the process in one subject first before implementing it completely for the entire exam.

In another move to streamline education, especially in PhD, the secretary recommended the universities to start a common online portal for PhD, where all registrations and updates related to research work can be done.