BHUBANESWAR, Jan. 23 -- Any bid to reform the education system in the state is usually met with protests either from students or from the teachers. Teachers in the past have agitated against attempts to impose a dress code and to ensure their attendance in schools and colleges. Initially, efforts to stop college teachers from engaging in private tuitions had also evoked protests.
Cleansing and strengthening of the examination system is an integral part of education reforms. Here, too, any new idea is challenged immediately by teachers and students. In a bizarre case in western Odisha, the students of a college had not only insisted on taking exams in their own college but also resorted to violence when stopped from copying. Unfortunately, ...