Left in lurch: What about us, ask students?
28 Jun 2014 5:57 AM IST
Though the students, teachers and others in University of Delhi were celebrating the roll-back of Four Year Undergraduate Programme (FYUP), the students enrolled under the course in the academic session 2013 are left perplexed.
‘We are tensed. What will they teach us now? How will FYUP be renewed?’ said Madan Mohan, a student of academic session 2013, Dean Dayal Updhay College. ‘Many of my batch mates are left in confusion. We are unaware about our own curriculum. What will happen to us?,’ said Deepak, a student of DU. The three year undergraduate which will now be followed in DU, may be a victory for many students and teachers but for those enrolled under FYUP, it has just brought another set of problems.
‘If we have to complete our course in two years, our burden will increase enormously. What about students who have to prepare for other entrances? We won’t be having time,’ said a student.
‘Papers need to be sequenced which would happen in due process. It has to come through discussions by various committees and departments of subjects. For existing students, it is thought that all foundation courses would be dropped. Though the burden will increase, it will be only a marginal increase. We will try to compensate the students under FYUP for their loss,’ said Sanjay Bohidar, Professor, Shri Ram College of Commerce.
The students besides being uninformed about their courses are also frustrated that they have to change their future education plans. ‘Everybody made their plans according to the four year programme but now they have to amend them. Most of my friends thought that they will do their CA IPCC till second year and then prepare for CAT. But now they can do only one thing. Either CA or MBA,’ said Nikhil, a student of Shri Ram College of Commerce, DU. Meanwhile, with the scrapping of its controversial four-year undergraduate programme, several B.Tech students of DU staged a protest outside the UGC office here on Friday demanding that their four-year curriculum should not be changed into a three-year course.
Under pressure from UGC to act on its directive, DU scrapped FYUP and reverted to the previous 3-year structure, with the fate of the students enrolled in B.Tech courses still unknown.
The agitating students demanded that their course should not be converted to B.Sc and said that they would continue to protest “indefinitely” till a written assurance on the same is given by the Commission.
‘If B.Tech degree is converted into B.Sc, this will be an injustice as we had enrolled in the Delhi University for a B.Tech degree and we expect to obtain the same,’ Arjun Malhotra, a student of B.Tech in Computer Science, said. The Delhi University had introduced six B.Tech courses in its curriculum under FYUP last year.
‘We are tensed. What will they teach us now? How will FYUP be renewed?’ said Madan Mohan, a student of academic session 2013, Dean Dayal Updhay College. ‘Many of my batch mates are left in confusion. We are unaware about our own curriculum. What will happen to us?,’ said Deepak, a student of DU. The three year undergraduate which will now be followed in DU, may be a victory for many students and teachers but for those enrolled under FYUP, it has just brought another set of problems.
‘If we have to complete our course in two years, our burden will increase enormously. What about students who have to prepare for other entrances? We won’t be having time,’ said a student.
‘Papers need to be sequenced which would happen in due process. It has to come through discussions by various committees and departments of subjects. For existing students, it is thought that all foundation courses would be dropped. Though the burden will increase, it will be only a marginal increase. We will try to compensate the students under FYUP for their loss,’ said Sanjay Bohidar, Professor, Shri Ram College of Commerce.
The students besides being uninformed about their courses are also frustrated that they have to change their future education plans. ‘Everybody made their plans according to the four year programme but now they have to amend them. Most of my friends thought that they will do their CA IPCC till second year and then prepare for CAT. But now they can do only one thing. Either CA or MBA,’ said Nikhil, a student of Shri Ram College of Commerce, DU. Meanwhile, with the scrapping of its controversial four-year undergraduate programme, several B.Tech students of DU staged a protest outside the UGC office here on Friday demanding that their four-year curriculum should not be changed into a three-year course.
Under pressure from UGC to act on its directive, DU scrapped FYUP and reverted to the previous 3-year structure, with the fate of the students enrolled in B.Tech courses still unknown.
The agitating students demanded that their course should not be converted to B.Sc and said that they would continue to protest “indefinitely” till a written assurance on the same is given by the Commission.
‘If B.Tech degree is converted into B.Sc, this will be an injustice as we had enrolled in the Delhi University for a B.Tech degree and we expect to obtain the same,’ Arjun Malhotra, a student of B.Tech in Computer Science, said. The Delhi University had introduced six B.Tech courses in its curriculum under FYUP last year.
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