Despite growing criticism over introduction of the University Grants Commission’s Choice Based Credit System (CBCS), Delhi University (DU) will seek approval from its statutory bodies on the refurbished courses under the new system.
The academic council meeting, scheduled for July 13, will see over 90 courses under CBCS being tabled for approval.
If implemented this year, DU will run three different programmes for three levels of undergraduate students – the third-year students studying under erstwhile FYUP, second-year students studying under the system the varsity reverted to post FYUP and the coming batch will study under the CBCS.
The executive council meeting has been scheduled for July 14.
Staff associations of many DU-affiliated colleges have rejected the CBCS, and teachers’ groups have criticised the “cafeteria” approach the programme offers.
In the review meeting of vice-chancellors on Tuesday, vice-chancellors of seven Central universities assured the Human Resource Development Ministry that they are ready to implement CBCS from the forthcoming academic session, a University Grants Commission circular has stated.
The faculty has already cleared courses making it easier for the DU to introduce CBCS. While the faculty of Applied Social Sciences and Humanities cleared courses on June 3, the faculty of Arts passed them on June 19.
Similarly, faculty of Mathematical Sciences passed the courses on June 16, faculty of Music and Fine Arts on June 18, faculty of Social Sciences on June 19, faculty of Commerce and Business on June 26 and faculty of Science on June 23.
Delhi University Teachers Association is planning to organise a meeting on Saturday to chart out their future course of action.
“The meetings of academic council and executive council on July 13 and July 14 are taking place without any genuine participation from the committee of courses, the faculty, and the standing committee. Common syllabus will be counterproductive for the students community and the society at large as the centralisation and bureaucratisation will hamper innovations and creativity. This will pave the way for ideological indoctrination by the government of the day as the academics are kept out of the decision making,” Rajesh Jha of Academics for Action and Development said.