Delhi University has decided to increase the number of students in a lecture by about 50 per cent to 60 per batch, which has been opposed by teachers.
The number of students in tutorials may also triple as per the university’s new plan. The Delhi University’s executive council passed a resolution on the matter on Thursday, with two EC members opposing the move to increase the student-teacher ratio. did. Will affect the quality of education
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EC member Seema Das said DU has earmarked 60 students per batch for lectures, 30 for tutorials and 25 for practical classes in undergraduate programmes.
Earlier the number of students in lectures in undergraduate courses was fixed at 40 and for tutorial and practical classes at 8 to 10 and 15 respectively.
For postgraduate courses, the strength per batch is 50, 25 and 15-20 respectively. The university had issued a notification in this regard to the colleges on November 11.
“The Executive Council, through a notification, has given its approval regarding uniformity in the teacher-student ratio across all programs and courses offered by the university and its colleges, both at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels,” Das said.
Several teachers’ bodies have opposed the notification, calling it a “larger than ideal” batch size. The dissident members have highlighted that the implementation of the November 11 notification will adversely affect the quality of the learning process in colleges and university departments.
In the notification, registrar Vikas Gupta said the university has come out with the rule to bring uniformity in the teacher-student ratio across all its programmes.
Dissatisfied members said that increasing the tutorial group size to 30 students for UG courses and 25 students for PG courses “negates” the idea of small group interactions and provides opportunities for students to develop deeper understanding and clear their doubts. deprives the opportunity of
The EC also approved the syllabus for the second semester of the four-year undergraduate program based on the Undergraduate Curriculum Framework.
During the meeting, proposals were made in this regard.
Council discusses syllabus of 100 undergraduate courses including BA Business Economics (Hons), BA Multimedia and Mass Communication (Hons), BSc Electronic Science (Hons), and BSc Microbiology (Hons).
“The executive council has approved the syllabus for the second semester of undergraduate courses,” Das said.
During the meeting, a proposal to increase the fee for PhD thesis evaluation to Rs 2,500 was also passed, the thesis submission fee was earlier Rs 5,000 for fellowship students.
For students without fellowship, the fee will increase by over 80 per cent to Rs 3,000 to Rs 5,500. Vice-Chancellor Yogesh Singh had in October exercised his “emergency power” to approve revision of honorarium for thesis evaluation.
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