DU council approves FYUP from next year
The Delhi University’s Academic Council (AC) on Tuesday night passed with dissent a plan to implement the provisions laid down in the National Education Policy 2020, including the introduction of four-year undergraduate programme (FYUP), multiple entryexit scheme (MEES), and academic bank of credits (ABC), from the next academic session.
“The NEP structure has been passed including FYUP, MEES, and academic bank of credit, and it will be implemented from next academic session,” said Arun Kumar Attree, member of the standing committee for AC members. At least 16 AC members recorded dissent, said one of the members.
The AC passed the agenda after a discussion on the recommendations submitted by a 42-member DU committee on the new education policy.
The AC meeting also discussed other issues related to ad-hoc teachers, pending promotions, and delay in disbursal of grants to Delhi governmentfunded colleges.
Several AC members also asked the university to hold dialogues with the UGC to delay the implementation of 2018 order which calls for a mandatory PHD to be eligible to teach in university departments.
NEW DELHI: The Delhi University’s Academic Council (AC) on Tuesday night passed with dissent a plan to implement the provisions laid down in the National Education Policy 2020, including the introduction of a four-year undergraduate programme (FYUP), multiple entry-exit scheme (MEES), and academic bank of credits (ABC), from the next academic session.
The AC, which has about 100 members, passed the agenda after a discussion on the recommendations submitted by a 42-member DU committee formed last year on the new education policy.
“The NEP structure has been passed including FYUP, MEES, and academic bank of credit, and it will be implemented from next academic session. Yesterday, the standing committee discussed the matter for six hours, and today as well the matter was deliberated upon for two hours,” said Arun Kumar Attree, member of the standing committee for AC members. At least 16 AC members recorded dissent, according to one of the members.
In 2014, DU was rocked by controversy after the then administration introduced the four-year undergraduate programme (FYUP), which was later scrapped by the government amid protests by students and teachers.
Under MEES, students who exit successfully at the first year will be awarded a certificate, and those who exit after the second year will get a diploma, and such students can rejoin the programme later on. ABC allows students to exit from one course or university at any point and save academic credits to use it in other universities that sign up for the ABC system.
The AC meeting also discusses other issues related to ad-hoc teachers, pending promotions, and delay in disbursal of grants to Delhi government-funded colleges.
During Zero Hour, prior to the NEP discussion, members raised several demands. The elected teacher representatives of the AC from the teachers’ group, Democratic Teachers Front (DTF), asked DU to intervene in a matter related to repeated non-renewal of contracts of ad-hoc teachers, due to issues in the teaching roster, at Vivekananda College. “The issue of roster needs to be resolved so that teachers are not harassed,” said a statement signed by Rajesh Kumar, Biswajit Mohanty, and Mithuraaj Dhusiya, asking for the removal of the college’s acting principal.