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Waiting for cut-off lists? DU controversies you need to know
With the CBSE results out, students will now be on the look-out for the Delhi University's cut-off lists, praying and hoping to get through to the college of their choice. Here's a quick run-down of the various controversies surrounding DU. Vishakha Saxena reports.
With the CBSE results out, students will now be on the look-out for the Delhi University's cut-off lists, praying and hoping to get through to the college of their choice. Here's a quick run-down of the various controversies surrounding DU:
The 4-year programme story
The biggest controversy that has taken DU by a storm presently is its new plan for a four year honors course. In 2012, Delhi University gave a nod to the much controversial programme. The idea was to allow interdisciplinary work during the course of the degree. The decision meant that students who take admission in DU's honors course in 2013 will get their degree after four years, instead of three. This decision recieved a lot of flak from teachers and was widely protested against by students as well. However, not all students were to take the 4-year course. Students could opt for a two-year associate baccalaureate degree or a three-year baccalaureate degree. Only those working towards an honours degree were to take the four-year course.
• Know All About Delhi University’s (DU) New Four Year Degree Course
• Four-year DU course: SC expresses reservation over interfering
• 100 teachers reject DU’s 4-yr prog, want Dinesh Singh sacked
• Dalit teachers hail fee exemption under FYUP
New management studies course
11 new courses were to be included in the new 4-year structure of Delhi University. One of them was a management studies course. And just about everything about it sent students running in confused circles. One the biggest issues was that there was a major delay in naming colleges that were to offer the proposed course. Even after the application process for the course started, the applicants had no idea which colleges were going to offer the programme.
• Website 'fails', management study aspirants panic
SC/ST reservation
22.5% of the total number of seats are reserved for candidates belonging to Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribes and 27% of the seats are reserved for candidates belonging to the Other Backward Classes. Though many social experts have hailed this reservation as it empowers aspiring students from backward classes, there have been many issues surrounding this reservation. The primary being students getting fake OBC certificates made to ensure a seat in the college of their choice.
• Four colleges out of OBC quota purview
• Delhi University (DU) to Decentralise its Admission Process for SC/ST
Cut-off lists: High, higher, unreasonable
2012's cut-off lists left even 90 percenters in the class XII boards feeling extremely jittery. Why? SRCC's first cut-off was 100%. While many believed it was simply ridiculous, others expressed concerns over the ever increasing cut-offs announced by colleges every year. Not only do these leave DU aspirants feeling extremely unsure about their options and the possibility of them getting through to the college of their choice but, it also ends up putting an immense amount of pressure on 12th graders about to sit for their CBSE examinations.
• The joke of the SRCC century!
• Sibal frowns on 100% cut-off list
