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GAURAV KUMARAIR 377· 2025

Question Q2aGS2GS2

"Academic freedom is the bedrock of scholarly inquiry and intellectual progress." Examine the ethical issues that arise when educational institutions yield to political, social, or economic pressures and compromises academic freedom. (10 marks, 150 words)

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Introduction

Recently, Tamilian & Covey, UGC are signing over autonomy of state's led universities. This shared increased pressures on educational governance.

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Main Body

Academic freedom:

(i) Universal ideas of sciences, innovative & deliberate discards (eg) TIFR memoir.

(ii) Deals with challenging & emerging issues (eg) AI governance.

(iii) Twice skilled personnel for the governance.

(iv) Social scholarly inquiry: to solve deep rooted pervasive, injustice, to vulnerable close governance.

Street issues: Under pressures on Academics institutions:

(i) Hamper the v. integrality, taught process & scientific temper (eg) politically applied VP & pseudoscience in DU (cow dung).

(ii) Spoil system in appointment, efficiency, time.

(iii) Partial facilitation of issue: (eg) Stands Union led activism & defies the pedagogy (eg) Garampani University.

(iv) Sorry's fund shortage: poor faculty & labs released & development.

(v) Erode the separation of colleges, charged syllabi.

(vi) No proper environment, decrease morale for STEM, gurus education.

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Conclusion

HEP-2020 recommended HEFA to c HEFT to regulate grants & framework

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Examiner score
0.5/10

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Topper

GAURAV KUMAR

AIR 3772025

Subject & Paper

GS2GS2

Topic

Government Policies and Interventions - Design, Implementation and Issues

Education Policy and Governance

Academic Freedom and Institutional Autonomy

Writing Stats

156

Total words

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Paragraphs

analytical

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