DU’s SOL students want semester machine postponed

Students from Delhi University’s School of Open Learning (SOL) on Monday submitted a memorandum to the University Grants Commission (UGC) over the implementation of the semester gadget in SOL.

The college students protested outside UGC and requested the commission to do so towards the varsity and delay the implementation to the following instructional consultation.

In August, the college had asked SOL to switch from the annual to semester mode to make sure parity with normal DU colleges, which had followed the selection-primarily based credit score device (CBCS) in 2015.

Students alleged the choice had brought about “mismanagement and chaos” because the management did not finalize the syllabus, self-gaining knowledge of fabric, and proper infrastructure before finding out to put into effect the semester gadget.

“The prospectus uploaded by SOL on its website stated college students had been taking admission in annual-mode programs. Over months after the admission technique started, the governing council decided to implement the CBCS gadget. This is a contravention of the promise made in the prospectus that the admission might be in annual mode,” Harish Gautam, an SOL scholar and member of scholar outfit Krantikari Yuva Sangathan (KYS), stated.

Students stated there was little clarity over the syllabus amongst instructors as nicely. “SOL is so unprepared that until now even the look at the material that needed to be mandatorily provided to the students had not been made to be had to most of them whilst checks are due subsequent month and the date-sheet has been introduced,” Gautam introduced.

Denying the allegations, the officer on special obligation at SOL, Ramesh Bhardwaj, stated, “The online observe fabric became ready through August 2d week and uploaded. We had been dispensing the published cloth for over a month now. Classes also are being performed smoothly. If we didn’t put in force semester device these 12 months, their levels might have been derecognized as per UGC suggestions on open distance getting to know.”