Amid a litany of grouses and expected glitches, India this week took the long-due first step towards reforming the admissions process to mainstream non-professional undergraduate courses. Ninety universities have joined the Common University Entrance Test Undergraduate, or CUET UG, launching the exercise of rewriting the rulebook for entry to higher education in the country.
The test, which began on July 15 and ends on August 20, faced its share of teething problems on the first day, unsurprisingly so. It’s important, however, that these problems don’t make one lose sight of the essential reasoning of the reform.
