Today’s “Word of the Day” is “carte blanche“ and it is a noun meaning “complete freedom to do whatever one wishes to do; a free hand, full discretionary power, leeway, latitude, elbow room; French phrase, literally means ‘blank paper’ except for a signature on which one is authorized to write whatever she/he wishes“.
Example Sentence: Recently, UGC Chairman Mamidala Jagadesh Kumar stated that the New Education Policy (NEP) “emphasises better collaboration with industries. The experts need to have demonstrated experience in a given domain.” On the face of it, this appears well-intentioned. However, it also raises an important question. What is the main problem that the UGC is trying to solve? Is it carte blanche to do away with PhDs to meet the shortfall? Are we going to treat PhDs and other professors as equals? If so, it should not be. It is a treacherous (risky) path laden (filled) with umpteen (a lot of) challenges.
This word is present in The Hindu article Will replacing PhD professors with practitioners work? and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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