The confusion over Delhi University’s decision, spearheaded by its vice-chancellor, to replace the existing three-year graduation course with a four-year programme gets compounded as the admissions process for the new academic year begins. Aside from the merits and demerits of such a seminal change, students are being forced to consider the ‘benefits’ of spending an extra year, delaying their entry into employment, for the very same degree that they can get in any other university.
The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) is getting calls from parents for even trivial issues thanks to ineffective grievance redressal cells in the state.
The four-year degree programme of Delhi University has come under fire from educationists and jurists, who have asked for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s intervention to postpone it.
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Delhi University has finally come clear on the colleges that will offer the Bachelor’s with honours course in management studies. In all, six colleges — Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies, College of Vocational Studies, Keshav Mahavidyalaya, Maharaja Agrasen College, Bhim Rao Ambedkar College and Deen Dayal Upadhyay College — will offer the course.